# Presentation: 536013

##                                         StarLight

**Located in Northwestern’s Downtown Campus**
**Dark Fiber to UIC**
**    ****Carrier POPs**
**    ****Chicago NAP**

**NU**

**UIC**

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**A Photonic-Switched Experimental Network of Light Paths**

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**iCAIR**

## iCAIR

- C
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- P
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- A
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- Clusters

- Dynamically
- Allocated
- Lightpaths

- Switch Fabrics

- Physical
- Monitoring

- Apps

**Multi-leveled Architecture**

- NEW!

**iCAIR**

**Tokyo**
**APAN**

**Hawaii??**

**CA*net4**

**Other (DoE, AmPATH)**

**CalTech**

**Amsterdam**
**NetherLight**

**CERN**
**DataTAG**

**StarLight**

**NCSA**

**SDSC**

**Campus SW**
**Aggregation SW**
**Cluster**
**Optical Fiber Amp**

**I-WIRE**

**TeraGrid**

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- Global Scale Backplane

**iCAIR**

## Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule

**Legend**
**TNV****	****TeraNode Visualization Cluster**
**TND****	****TeraNode Data Mining Cluster**
**TNC****	****TeraNode Computing Cluster**
**EVL****	****Electronic Visualization Laboratory, 842 W. Taylor St. UIC East Campus**
**LAC****	****Laboratory for Advanced Computing, 851 S. Morgan St. UIC East Campus (next door to EVL)**
**UIC****	****Academic Computer Center, UIC West Campus, 3 fiber miles from EVL and LAC**
**NU****	****Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, ~ 20 miles north of Chicago**
**StarLight****	****International next-generation optical exchange (NGOX), at 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, part of NU’s Chicago campus**
**	****UIC-owned fiber**
**	****I-WIRE-owned fiber**

## Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development ScheduleYear 0: September 2001-August 2002 

**UIC**

**Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development Schedule****Year 0: September 2001-August 2002**** **

**EVL**

**6509**

**6509**

**10GbE**

**10Gb**

**LAC**

**1GigE**

**TND1**

**TNV1**

**6509**

**TND****	****Small TND1 clusters at LAC and StarLight**
**TNV****	****TNV1 clusters at EVL and StarLight**** **
**TNC****	****Small TNC1 clusters at EVL and StarLight (not shown in diagrams****)**
**Netwk****	****Cisco 6509s with 10GigE DWDM**** **
**I-WIRE****	****StarLight to Qwest fiber (18 pair); TeraGrid/MREN to StarLight; Abilene to Starlight**** (other funding)**
**K-6****	****EVL VR displays deployed**** **
**Int’l****	****Amsterdam clusters OC-48→2x1GigE**** (other funding)**

## Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development ScheduleYear 1: September 2002-August 2003

**Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development Schedule****Year 1: September 2002-August 2003**

**TND****	****(2) TND2s at LAC and StarLight**** **
**Netwk****	****Cisco 6509 w/ 10GigE for LAC; 10Gb testing gear; (2) 10Gb boards for UIC, LAC**
**I-WIRE****	****UIC to StarLight (1 pair); UIC to ANL to Starlight (1 pair); Seattle, California to StarLight OC-192**
**K-6****	****Wireless handheld computers **
**Int’l****	****CERN, Tokyo OC-48→2x1GigE; Amsterdam OC-192→10GigE (other funding)**

## Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development ScheduleYear 2: September 2003-August 2004

**Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule****Year 2: September 2003-August 2004**

**TNV****	****TNV2**
**Netwk****	****Cisco 6513 10x10GigE at StarLight; (2) 10Gb DWDM lasers for a total capacity of 20Gb (between UIC to Starlight); (2) 10Gb boards for EVL, UIC **
**I-WIRE****	****Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania? **
**K-6****	****Wireless handheld computers **
**Int’l****	****Other internationals**

## Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule Year 3: September 2004-August 2005

**Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule**** ****Year 3: September 2004-August 2005**

**TND****	****(2) TND3s at LAC and StarLight **
**TNV****	****TNV3**
**TNC****	****TNC3 at AI/EVL **
**I-WIRE****	****Others? **
**K-6****	****TND1 and TNV1 clusters re-deployed in schools **
**Int’l****	****CERN, Tokyo OC-192→10GigE**

## Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule Years 4 and 5: September 2005-August 2007

**TND****	****Upgrade NICs in (2) TND clusters to (8)x 10GigE **
**TNV****	****Upgrade NICs in TNV3 clusters to (8)x10GigE**** **
**Netwk****	****(2) 6509 Switch Fabric Upgrades; (48) 10GigE ports for EVL, LAC, UIC, StarLight; 2x40GigE switch/ router upgrades; 40Gb test equipment; O-E-O Optical Switch at StarLight (partial funding); (2) 40Gb DWDM lasers (EVL to StarLight); (8) 10Gb DWDM lasers (UIC to Starlight)**
**I-WIRE****	****Others? **
**K-6****	****Classroom full of handheld computers interfaced to TND2/TNV2 clusters **
**Int’l****	****Amsterdam OC-768→40GigE? **

## StarLight Thanks

**StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts at the University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding from:**** **
- National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809
- NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance
- State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and UIC cost sharing
- Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management
**Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership**
**NSF/ANIR, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, and Olivier Martin of CERN for global optical networking leadership; **
**NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities**
**UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and their ITN**
**CA*net4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West Coast transit **

## “Bring Us Your Lambdas!”

***“******Bring Us Your Lambdas!”***

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