| Rick Summerhill | |
| Director, Network Research, Architecture, and Technologies | |
| Joint-Techs Meeting | |
| Salt Lake City, UT |
| Welcome to Abilene, Steve Cotter | ||
| Network Services Director | ||
| Abilene | ||
| FiberCo | ||
| MAN LAN | ||
| Indiana University | |
| Juniper Networks | |
| Nortel Networks | |
| Qwest Communications | |
| ITECs | |
| Internet2 |
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 Federal/Research 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) | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| http://abilene.internet2.edu | ||
| http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory | ||
| Additional pointers off this page | ||
| http://hopi.internet2.edu | ||
| abilene@internet2.edu | ||
| hopi@internet2.edu | ||