| Internet2 Update |
| Rick Summerhill | |
| Chief Technology Officer, Internet2 | |
| rrsum@internet2.edu | |
| TIP 2008 | |
| 21 January 2008 | |
| Honolulu, HI | |
| Contents |
| Technologies | ||
| Middleware | ||
| Security | ||
| Network Research Support | ||
| Performance | ||
| Dynamic Circuit Services | ||
| The Internet2 Network | ||
| Services | ||
| Future Challenges | ||
| Middleware |
| Shibboleth 2.0 should be out within a month | ||
| Completes the Shib/SAML Integration | ||
| InCommon continues to grow | ||
| New investigations on federation peering - now 15-20 international federations | ||
| COManage work continues | ||
| Leverages federated identity and the attribute ecosystem | ||
| Shib-enabled; uses Grouper to manage groups, Signet to manage privileges, Eddy for diagnostics | ||
| Open and proprietary applications can be plumbed to work with it | ||
| See some of the detailed talks on Middleware | ||
| Security |
| Much of the activity will be moving toward the campus level | ||
| Support for and collaboration with the REN-ISAC | ||
| Incident handling | ||
| SALSA working groups | ||
| Disaster Recovery | ||
| CSI-2 (Interoperable security incident reporting) | ||
| Federated wireless access | ||
| Grants to investigate security efforts | ||
| Integration of identity management and security efforts (CAMP in next few weeks - full) | ||
| Network Research Support |
| Observatory data usage continues to grow | ||
| Investigating data needs at lower layers | ||
| Continue work on grants like Ultralight, DoE, and 100x100 | ||
| Deploying a small experimental network using netFPGA cards for the 100x100 project | ||
| Investigating use of new (old?) ideas like Phoebus | ||
| Investigating international connections and how to measure | ||
| Support for recent GENI solicitation | ||
| Performance |
| End-to-End performance monitoring | ||
| Primary component under development is PerfSONAR | ||
| What is perfSONAR? | ||
| A set of protocols and schemas for implementing a service-oriented architecture for sharing and controlling network performance tools | ||
| A community of users and developers (Internet2, ESnet, GEANT2, and RNP) | ||
| A set of software (the sample implementation) | ||
| Java release v2.1 available | ||
| perfSONAR-PS beta released this week | ||
| Encourage deployment at all levels - campus, regional, national, and international | ||
| Dynamic Circuit Network |
| Designed using the work done through the HOPI (Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure) project (more on that later). | ||
| Currently uses the Ciena infrastructure | ||
| To be extended to the full infrastructure as more is developed. | ||
| The DCN software suite now available - current version 0.2 | ||
| Developed by Internet2, ESnet, and DANTE through the DICE collaboration | ||
| Encourage participation of a wider group of developers - contact Internet2 if there is interest | ||
| The Internet2 Network |
| Designed with the following in mind: | ||
| The R&E community runs applications with very demanding needs, from high bandwidth to quality of service | ||
| Demand for control at lower layers of the the network stack | ||
| Interest in Hybrid Networking - using networks at different layers in innovative ways | ||
| How can one augment layer3 networks with layer1 capabilities | ||
| The HOPI Testbed |
| Understanding these capabilities lead to the HOPI project | |||
| HOPI is now being decommissioned, although several segments continue to exist | |||
| Successful project that lead to DCN | |||
| Many thanks to the HOPI partners, including | |||
| Force10, Glimmerglass, and HP | |||
| The TSC (testbed support center) including IU, NCREN, and MAX | |||
| Some support for DCN continues from these groups | |||
| Special thanks to the NSF and the DRAGON project | |||
| Internet2 IDEA Awards |
| For advanced applications with: | ||
| Positive impact | ||
| Technical merit | ||
| Potential for further adoption | ||
| IP and (new) static wave categories | ||
| Winners receive recognition and (for static wave category) 10 Gbps circuit on Internet2 Network |
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| Submit by 28 January 2008 | ||
| Additional information available at the information table | ||
| The Internet2 Network Design Goals |
| Multiple layersÉMultiple domainsÉOne infrastructure, flexibility at all layers | ||
| IP services | ||
| Static Wave services | ||
| Dynamic Wave services | ||
| Commercial Peering services | ||
| Carrier-class reliability / Massively scalable / Flexible | ||
| Enable both production services and also experimental services | ||
| Continue technical innovation & vision in the global Research and Education community | ||
| The Internet2 Network Architecture Summary |
| Initially provisioned with ten 10-Gbps wavelengths (100 Gbps) with all 10 dropping at each core optical node | ||
| Unlimited capacity: Can grow beyond 40 wavelengths on additional fibers with linear costs | ||
| Community Controlled: Complete access to the entire system - IU NOC now controls all layers in the network | ||
| Reliable: Level(3) provided service level agreements on waves | ||
| Scalability: Potential for 40 & 100 Gbps support | ||
| SC 06 and SC 07 demos of 40 and 100 Gbps | ||
| Rapid/Flexible: Reprovisioned (10GE to OC-192) and tested 10 λŐs between NYC-DC-Chicago (~1000 miles) in 31 minutes! | ||
| Internet2 Infrastructure |
| Slide 14 |
| Wave Infrastructure - ESnet and Internet2 |
| The Internet2 Hybrid Network | ||
| The Internet2 IP network | ||
| The Internet2 circuit infrastructure, dynamic in nature | ||
| The ESnet Hybrid Network | ||
| The ESnet IP network | ||
| The ESnet SDN circuit (dynamic) network | ||
| The wave infrastructure can support multiple networks | ||
| Internet2 has complete control of the wave infrastructure | ||
| It can support both highly experimental and production quality | ||
| The Internet2 Network as follows: | ||
| Slide 16 |
| Internet2 Network Partners |
| Services |
| Hybrid Network | |||
| IP Network | |||
| Research Traffic similar to the past | |||
| Commodity Peering Services | |||
| Dynamic Circuit (DC) Network | |||
| Waveco | |||
| Static Waves (SONET or Ethernet) on the Infinera Platform | |||
| Static Circuits (SONET or Ethernet) on the Ciena Platform | |||
| Fiberco | |||
| Dark fiber (and ancillary services); professional services | |||
| Static Circuit Services |
| Physical Connections: | ||
| 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet | ||
| OC-192 SONET | ||
| Circuit Service Types: | ||
| Point-to-Point Ethernet Circuit, tagged or untagged | ||
| Point-to-Point SONET Circuit | ||
| Bandwidth provisioning available in 50 Mbps increments | ||
| Static Circuit Services |
| Provide for user specific network paths: | ||
| Guaranteed bandwidth | ||
| Deterministic behavior in terms of bounds on jitter, latency, and packet loss rates | ||
| Can be provisioned in multiple ways: | ||
| Over Infinera backbone | ||
| Over the Ciena CoreDirectors | ||
| Even via MPLS over IP network | ||
| Commercial Peering Service |
| Potential to position R&E community as the leader with respect to IPv6 connectivity | |
| Working with commodity providers to enable new IP multicast applications | |
| Insure net neutral paths between R&E community and commodity-hosted content, services, and users. |
| Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) |
| Similarities to IP Network | ||
| One-arm connection | ||
| Protocol-based connection | ||
| Connect to anyone else also connected to the network | ||
| Dynamic Circuit characteristics | ||
| Flexible bandwidth up to 10 Gbps | ||
| Set up circuits in seconds | ||
| Circuits lasts for hours or days | ||
| Operates on the Ciena Platform currently | ||
| Internet2 DCN |
| Roll-out | ||
| Persistent for 2008 | ||
| No additional fee to IP connectors for 2008 |
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| Support | ||
| Documentation | ||
| Workshops | ||
| User group | ||
| Challenge is innovative use of the Technology | ||
| Phoebus |
| Phoebus - TCP data flows | ||
| File transfers over long distance segments not requiring congestion control | ||
| Lead by Martin Swany at the University of Delaware | ||
| Challenges |
| These are great times in the networking world | ||
| New and innovative ideas for networking abound! | ||
| A Challenge to you: | ||
| Given the technologies being developed by the community, from middleware to perfSONAR to DCN, what are innovative ways to use those technologies? | ||
| Given new technologies coming in Ethernet and G.709, what networking directions should our community take over the next few years? | ||
| The new Internet2 governance puts the direction in the hands of the community! | ||
| Slide 26 |