# Presentation: 502687

## Vertically Integrated Optical Testbed for Large Applications in DFNImplementation of a testbed for optical networking as a cooperation of industrial and research partners  Peter Kaufmann (DFN-Verein)Kaufmann@DFN.DEFerdinand Hommes (FhG/IMK)Ferdinand.Hommes@IMK.FRAUNHOFER.DE September 2005 www.viola-testbed.de 

**VIOLA**

## Project and Partners

- Organized as consortium, Leader: DFN-Verein
- Members of consortium:
- Alcatel SEL AG, 		T-Systems International GmbH,
- Siemens AG, 		FhG (IMK, SCAI),
- FZ Jülich, 		Stiftung caesar,
- Universität Bonn, 	FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (U Appl. Sc.)
- RWTH Aachen
- Associated partner: 	GasLINE, Navtel
- Term of Project: 3 Years
- Start of VIOLA: June 2004
- Funding: ca. 11 M€ from BMBF (Ministry of Research)
- Total costs: ca. 20 M€

## General Goals (1)

- Test & evaluation of current developments of netwoking technology including signalling & management
- State-of-the-art (pre-)products of industrial partners
- Signalling mechanisms and interfaces
- Wide area field tests, laboratory environment for specific tests
- Preparation for X-WIN of DFN (successor of G-WIN)
- Call for tender for fiber+WDM late 2004; implementation since Summer 2005;
- Implementation of (new) routing/switching equipment in 2006/07;
- Implementation as a stepwise process with increasing service complexity;
- Implementation of a **vertical** testbed
- Applications
- Middleware tools
- Optical transport technology for IP, SDH and GE

## General Goals (2)

- 		Project structure: *Vertical Integration*

## General Goals (3)

- Networker's perspective:From laboratory experiment to deployment in NREN:
- Evaluation of network technology in close-to-production environment
- Involve users from leading scientific institutions in the local region
- Applications with a broad spectrum of requirements
- Users perspective:Early access to next-generation technology may be competitive advantage:
- Deployment in X-WiN in 2006+
- Evaluation of Grid-System by means of applications

## Testbed Topology

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## Fibre-Structure and WDM

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## Components & Connections

## Equipment (1) 

** ****Equipment and Connectivity offers:**
- Different SDH-domains
- In triangel in parallel with up to 10 Gbps:
- SDH-connectivity and
- L2-Ethernet-connectivity
- User access with n * GE
- e2e-connectivity via L2-service or via L2/SDH-service

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## Equipment (2) 

**Alcatel 1678 (SDH-Cross-Connect) **
- Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps-SDH (STM-64) and GE, with GFP
- Signalling: OIF/UNI-N 1.0 R2 and E-NNI
**Alcatel 7750 SR (Router) **
- Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps-SDH,  GE and 10GE, L2-Service: VPLS (H-VPLS)
**Alcatel 1696 (WDM-System)**
- Interfaces: 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and 10 GE** **
**Riverstone 15008 (GE-Switch)**
- Interfaces: GE and 10GE, L2-Service: VPLS (H-VPLS)
**Siemens SURPASS hiT 7070  ****(SDH Cross-Connect) **
- Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and GE, with GFP
- Signalling: I-NNI, 			Cross-connect capacity: 160 Gbit/s
**Siemens/Sycamore Networks SN16000 ****(SDH Cross-Connect) **
- Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64),
- Signaling: E-NNI, I-NNI, OIF/UNI 1.0 R2,  	Cross-connect capacity: 2.5 Tbit/s

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## Equipment (3) 

**Siemens/ADVA FSP 1500 ****(GE Multiplexer)**
- Interfaces: GE (multiplexed to 2.5 Gbps SDH (STM-16) via GFP)
**Siemens/ADVA FSP 3000 ****(Metro-WDM-System)**
- Interfaces: 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and 10 GE

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## Network Signalling (1)

- Applications

- Layer 2 Services

- Layer 3 Services

- DWDM

- CWDM

- Fiber

- SDH Cross Connects

- GFP/LCAS

- VPLS/HVPLS

- GRID
- Virtual Reality

- Layer 3 VPNs

- MPLS

- GMPLS / UNI / I-NNI / E-NNI

- (GMPLS , all optical Switch)

- Layer 2/3 Switch/Router

## Network Signalling (2)

- Interworking in optical transport networks
- 	Signalling concepts: 	analysis and test them,
- 				contribution to specification
- GMPLS for IP-based control plane (IETF)
- ASON / ASTN (Automatic Switched Optical/Transport Network, ITU)
- UNI for user controlled signaling and E-NNI
- 		(Optical Internetworking Forum, OIF)
- Interoperability at UNI/NNI (OIF)
- I-NNI-GMPLS-Interface

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## Network Signalling (3)

- First Signalling-Results
- GMPLS with Soft-Perm-Conn at Alcatel-CC1678 in operation
- OIF-E-NNI at Alcatel-CC1678 and Sycamore-CC SN16000 available
- OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, network side at Alcatel-CC1678 available
- OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, network side at Sycamore-CC-SN16000 available
- OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, client side: Late 2005
- OIF-UNI 2.0, planned for 1Q 2006 at Alcatel and Siemens CC
- Interworking tests of OIF-E-NNI between Alcatel-CC1678 and
- 	Sycamore-CC-SN16000: some problems (interpretation of Unicast/Multicast OSPF-Packets when using IP-tunnels)

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## Network Signalling (4)

- Provision of Ethernet-Service over SDH with bandwidth adjustment (New SDH: GFP, LCAS, VC).
- GFP: Generic Framing Procedure** **(ITU-T G.7042), method to transport data packets (e.g. Ethernet) over SDH
- LCAS: Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme** **(ITU-T G.7041), dynamical bandwidth adjustment for SDH-links (variable VC4-container)
- Virtual Concatenation (VC) instead of Continuous Concatenation (CC): VC4-Container may use different ways in the transport network
- First New-SDH-Results
- Basic tests/interworking between Alcatel-CC-1678, Siemens-CC-hiT7070 and ADVA-GE-MUX-1500 successful
- LCAS tests in 4Q 2005

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## Network Signalling (5)

- Operation of L2-Subnetworks
- VPLS, H-VPLS (Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service)
- Based on Riverstone15008 and Alcatel-7750, connected via SDH-Equipment (Alcatel-CC 1678) or directly with 10GE-LAN-Phy
- Test: Performance, Functionality
- First L2-Results
- VLL and VPLS: OK
- H-VPLS: Problems, Alcatel/Riverstone not fully compatible
- Interworking Ether Flow Control between L2/SDH-Switches: OK
- QoS-Fkt. for b/w limitations (Shaping,Policing;Ingress,Egress): OK

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## Network Signalling (6)

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## Network Signalling (7)

- Development of interfaces for user controlled signalling

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## Project Goal Middleware

- Implementation of an operational environment for PC-cluster based on UNICORE
- UNICORE supports the operation of a Compute-Grid
- Interoperability with Globus-toolkit and compatibility with OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture) is planned
- Development / Portation of missing components
- Development of a Meta-Scheduler based on Global Grid Forum Standards (Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol)
- Portation of MetaMPI and integration in UNICORE
- Adaptation/upgrading of local tools to connect and analyse distributed applications
- Development of high-performance parallel-I/O-interfaces (main memory, file server)

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## Project Goal Applications (1)

- Usage/upgrading of (existing) applications with high and dynamical transfer requirements (e.g. e-science / Grid)
- Several GE-tunnels per application
- Dynamical requirement of bandwidth with guaranteed QoS
- User controlled networks (E2E)
- Integration of real users
- Variable requir. (time,size,quality) for „stress-test“ of network equipment
- Based on experiences with new networks
- Creation of new ideas for applications
- Motivation of user groups for GRID-technology

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Ethernet, FDDI für Remote Zugang und Management
HIPPI für Visualisierungszwecke (DISPLAY Buffer) und Filesever (Native HIPPI)

## Project Goal Applications (2)

- The chosen applications will
- Create high throughput requirements (Multi-Gigabit/s)
- Demand latency and jitter limits
- Demand bandwidth reservation, dependent on time
- Support performance analysis of the network
- Enable operational experiences with new network technology (e.g. management)
- Demonstrate the capabilities of the new network technology for  challenging applications
- Integration of further non-funded applications
- national and cooperation with international projects (FP6)

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Proprietäre Ankopplung im Gigabit-Bereich (User 1,2 GigaRing 4,8)
Ethernet, FDDI für Remote Zugang und Management
HIPPI für Visualisierungszwecke (DISPLAY Buffer) und Filesever (Native HIPPI)

## Application Requirements

## Access of Applications to the Transport Network 

## Distribution of Costs/Funding 

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## International Aspects

- DFN participates in EGEE (Enabling Grids for e-science in Europe)
- international Grid-Infrastructure based on existing networks
- „VIOLA-Participation“ (DFN, TSI, Uni Erlangen) in FP6-projects:
**GN2** - Geant2
**MUPBED **- Multi-Partner European Testbeds for Research Networking
- The testbed VIOLA forms the national base to contribute successfully to international projects
- Interested for cooperation with similar projects/activities in Europe and elsewhere

## Status (1)

- Testbed implementation was finished early 2005:
- circuits are connected (including connection to G-WIN/GEANT)
- equipment is installed;
- network management is operational
- Work items of „Transport & Signalling“ have been started:
- I-NNI: Available for Siemens-CC-hiT7070
- E-NNI: Available for Alcatel-CC-1678 and Sycamore-CC-SN16000
- E-NNI interoperability tests between Alcatel & Sycamore
- UNI-N 1.0 R2: Available for Alcatel-CC-1678
- GFP/LCAS-Tests between Alcatel-1678 & Siemens-hiT7070
- E2E: Specification of user interface & design of reservation system

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## Status (2)

- L2-Test/Operation:
- VLL/VPLS interoperability tests with Alcatel & Riverstone: OK
- H-VPLS interoperability tests with Alcatel & Riverstone: Some problems
- Initial version of middleware is deployed, Integration of new middleware components in progress
- Application projects have finished preparatory work
- First “runs” over the network have been made
- 	Applications are beginning to stress network & middleware.

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## Summary (1) 

- VIOLA will support (beyond the specific project goals):
- Reflection on and influence to changing conditions in research networks
- new user requirements (e.g. e2e) demand new architecture
- maybe new operating models (e.g. usage of „dark fibre“)
- Cooperation with international activities
- North America (USA,  CANARIE)
- IST program of EU
- national programs in Europe (e.g. NL, CH, PL)
- Cooperation with national programs and projects
- D-Grid (e-science), MultiTeraNet, TransiNet

## Summary (2)

- Usage of VIOLA-platform for further NGN-topics
- German industry to test and develop future network techniques and services
- Implementation of innovative (bandwidth demanding) VR- and Grid-applications
- Preparation of the X-WIN

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