National LambdaRail Update
Joint Techs 2005
 Salt Lake City, Utah
Dave Jent

National LambdaRail Update
Layer 1 Phase 1 update
Layer 1 Phase II Design
Layer1 Phase II Deployment Schedule
Layer 2 design
Layer 3 design
Preliminary Pricing information
Operations support

National LambdaRail Update
Phase I Layer 1 Deployment

National LambdaRail Update
Phase I PoP Layout

National LambdaRail Update
Phase II Layer I Deployment

National LambdaRail Update
Phase II PoP Layout

National LambdaRail Update

National LambdaRail Update
Phase 2 installation optical hardware
Houston-El Paso
Projected Completion Date:  7/6/2005
KC-Houston
Projected Completion Date:  6/27/2005
El Paso-LA
Projected Completion Date:  8/16/2005
Houston-Baton Rouge
Projected Completion Date:  7/13/2005
Ogden-SLC
Projected Completion Date:  8/18/2005

National LambdaRail Update
Phase 2 installation optical hardware
El Paso-Denver
Projected Completion Date:  8/30/2005
DC-NYC
Projected Completion Date:  7/22/2005
NYC-Cleveland
Projected Completion Date:  8/3/2005
Jacksonville-Baton Rouge
Projected Completion Date:  9/14/2005

National LambdaRail Update
Layer 2 Network Design

Slide 11

NLR Layer 2 Goals
Facilitate point to point or point to multipoint Ethernet transport at rates at or above 1Gbps.
Provide detailed performance measurement and real time statistics which allow the user to fully understand the performance of the transport network.
Provide flexible infrastructure and tools which allow users to make, or signal for, service level changes to their individual Layer 2 paths, dramatically reducing provisioning delays while making more efficient use of the network.
Refine these services, over time, to meet the specific needs of the research community; even where those developments would differ from what a standard service provider would be willing to do.

NLR L2 Initial Services
National Peering Fabric – Create a national distributed exchange point, with a single broadcast domain for all members. Initial user ports will be 1GE.
Dedicated Point to Point Ethernet – VLAN between 2 members with dedicated bandwidth from sub 1G to multiple 1G.
Best Effort Point to Multipoint – Multi-point VLAN with no dedicated bandwidth

National LambdaRail Update
Layer 3 Network Design

Slide 15

NLR Layer 3 Goals
Create a national infrastructure for network and application experiments, in a way that is not possible with current production commodity networks, network test-beds, or production R&E networks.
Provide an advanced national “breakable” infrastructure to try out technologies and configurations.  In addition, researchers will have the opportunity to create experiments and test them using live production traffic in a national backbone provider footprint.
Provide a flexible layer 3 network supporting experiments for anything from requiring total control of the hardware to requiring access to active real-time production traffic.
Support researchers with a level of communication and visibility to its users not seen before in other networks.

NLR Layer 3 Services
BGP to each member
ISIS core IGP
IPv4 Multicast: PIM, MSDP, MBGP by default.
IPv6:  BGP peering by default
Security:  Each member will be able to black-hole traffic to one of their hosts using special BGP community
Each member gets a 10GE connection and a VLAN backhauled over the L2 network to a second node.

Preliminary pricing
Pricing is based on a per segment cost.
The pricing model includes the number of segments as well as capacity replacement, maintenance, operations and equipment replacement costs. There are pricing models for members as well as non-members. One example:
1gb circuit from Chicago to Washington DC would use three L1 segments and three L2 segments. This would cost approximately $23,500 upfront and $20,940/year.

NLR Operations Support
NLR Service Desk at Indiana University
noc@nlr.net
http://noc.nlr.net
Layer 1 services provided by CENIC
Layer 2/3 services provided by Indiana University
Experimental Support services provided by MCNC

"Thanks to:"
Thanks to:
Chris Griffin
Steve Cotter
Dave Reese
Caren Litvanyi
Jon-Paul Herron
Grover Browning

For more information…
NLR puts the control, the power and the promise of experimental
Contact Tom West twest@nlr.net
noc@nlr.net
NLR: putting the control, the power and the promise of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of our nation’s scientists and researchers.