| Goals | |
| Architecture | |
| Current Status | |
| NGI Peering | |
| International Peering | |
| Multicast |
| Support very high data-rates | ||
| OC-48 in phase 1 | ||
| Minimize speed-of-light delay | ||
| Provide Sonet access at over 100 Qwest PoPs | ||
| Support advanced IP functionality such as multicast and QoS | ||
| Support advanced applications! | ||
| Router Nodes | ||
| About 10-15, located at Qwest PoPs | ||
| Cisco 12008 routers | ||
| Out-of-band access, Surveyor | ||
| Interior Circuits | ||
| Qwest OC-48 and OC-12 Sonet | ||
| Simple POS between Router Nodes | ||
| Access Circuit: site to Router Node | ||
| OC-3, OC-12 now; OC-48 possible | ||
| IP/Sonet or IP/ATM framing | ||
| Access Node: any Qwest Sonet PoP | ||
| Backhaul from Access Node to Router Node viewed as part of Abilene | ||
| Local from site to Access Node varies | ||
| Connections | ||
| 28 now | ||
| 9 on the way | ||
| Participants | ||
| 102 now | ||
| 27 on the way | ||
| Qwest Communications | |
| Nortel | |
| Cisco | |
| Indiana University (NOC) | |
| MCNC and OARnet (ITEC) | |
| UCAID |
| Internet2 and federal NGI networks peer at a set of NGI exchanges, or NGIXes | ||
| Chicago (same ATM switch as StarTAP) | ||
| NASA Ames | ||
| Univ Maryland College Park, near DC | ||
| Other ad hoc connection points also exist | ||
JETnets Interconnections and Peering
| vBNS: Chicago and Washington | |
| NREN: Ames and Chicago | |
| NISN: Chicago | |
| DREN: Ames and Chicago | |
| ESnet: Berkeley, Chicago, Atlanta | |
| Theme: reduce latency in univ-lab paths |
| Focused on non-US advanced R/E networks | ||
| Supports StarTAP exchange point | ||
| But also uses other peering locations to minimize: | ||
| latency | ||
| cost burden for peer | ||
| Miami, Florida, 6-8 December 1999 | ||
| Joint project of: | ||
| Internet2 | ||
| NLANR | ||
| Advanced networking technology and infrastructure consultation | ||
| www.internet2.edu/html/dec99miami.html | ||
| Increase support for native multicast | ||
| Increase experience with high-speed wide-area TCP | ||
| Web100 project beginning | ||
| Make OC-12 (600 Mb/s) performance ordinary | ||
| The aggressive combination of high-speed computing and high-speed networking is exactly why Internet2 infrastucture, including Abilene, have been built | |
| We welcome the challenge to support this! |