Abilene Update
Rick Summerhill
Director, Network Research, Architecture, and Technologies
Joint-Techs Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT

Welcome
Welcome to Abilene, Steve Cotter
Network Services Director
Abilene
FiberCo
MAN LAN

Abilene Partnerships
Indiana University
Juniper Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
ITECs
Internet2

Abilene Backbone

Abilene Participants
February 2005
IP-over-DWDM (OC-192c)
42 (44) direct connections (OC-3c ® 10 GigE)
3 (2) 10 GigE connections
6 (6) OC-48c (2 more in the near future)
3 (2) GigE connection
25 (23) connections at OC-12c (13) or higher
Cost recovery model reduced to encourage upgrades
233 (228) participants – research universities & labs
All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico
U.S. Census Bureau and World Bank most recent additions; Library of Congress coming soon!
Expanded access
119 (106) sponsored participants
34 (33) state education networks
(#): status at last Joint-Techs (Columbus, 07/2004)

Abilene Participation - Upgrades
Current status
Connectors recently completed
University of Oregon
North Texas GigaPoP
Intermountain GigaPoP (here at Utah)
SoX
Near future upgrades
New Mexico GigaPoP (OC-48)
MAGP (OC-48)
Upgrade web page
http://abilene.internet2.edu/community/connectors/upgrade.html

Abilene International Peering

Abilene Federal/Research Peering

Abilene Peering
Connectivity to Exchange Points
MANLAN – 10 GigE
PacWave - Seattle – 10 GigE
PacWave - LA – 10 GigE
Starlight – 2 x 10 GigE
NGIX East – 10 GigE
NGIX West – 1 GigE
PAIX in Palo Alto - IPv6 and Multicast Peerings
Peering with ESnet
Sunnyvale, Chicago, Atlanta – OC-48
New York - 10 GigE (through MAN LAN)

Abilene Focus Areas – 2005
IPv6 and Multicast
Roughly 2/3 of the connectors are IPv6 enabled
Roughly 1/2 of the peers are IPv6 enabled
Support for high-throughput flows (multi-Gbps)
Collaboration with End-to-End Performance Initiative
Ensuring that large flows are the standard across the Internet2 infrastructure
Security
Collaboration with REN-ISAC
Expanded efforts in security
Abilene Observatory – Supporting Network Research and an Open Measurement Platform
Provisioning dedicated capabilities (with the HOPI project)
Providing experimental services on top of production network
Recent NSF Proposals for network research

Abilene Performance
Performance
7.2 Gbps flows across Abilene
Recent tests from Caltech to CERN
Le Tour de Abilene
Worst Ten Lists – Typical day
966.1 Mbps IPv4 TCP
964.5 Mbps IPv6 TCP
MPLS L2VPN experiments with prioritized service have shown excellent performance on tunnels and with little effect on normal traffic

Dedicated Capabilities
MPLS L2VPNs across Abilene
Experiments – Internet2, CANARIE, GEANT, StarLight, SurfNet – 1 GigE path across variety of different infrastructures
ITECs – dedicated MPLS L2VPN
HOPI
Packet and Circuit Switched architecture testbed
More about HOPI tomorrow
Support for Computer Science Research Community
Recent NSF proposals to enhance PlanetLab Connectivity

Next Generation Time-line
By January of 2006 - define architecture
By April 2006 - Selection of transport
By July 2006 - Selection of equipment
By October 2007 - Completion
Current MoU with Qwest ends 10/2007

More information
http://abilene.internet2.edu
http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory
Additional pointers off this page
http://hopi.internet2.edu
abilene@internet2.edu
hopi@internet2.edu

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