# Presentation: 852355

## TransLight:
Contributing to the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)

Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago
Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University
John Silvester, University of Southern California
Ron Johnson, University of Washington
Ed Fantegrossi, Don Riley, IEEAF 
Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE
Kees Neggers, SURFnet
Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam 

**Contributing to the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)**
**Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago**
**Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University**
**John Silvester, University of Southern California**
**Ron Johnson, University of Washington**
**Ed Fantegrossi, Don Riley, IEEAF **
**Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE**
**Kees Neggers, SURFnet**
**Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam **

## Chicago’s StarLight, A Model Facility

**A *****flexible***** integrated facility, *****for***** scientists, *****by***** scientists**
**The world’s largest GE and 10 GE exchange for R&E Production Networks**
**A MEMS-switched optical research network exchange **
**A vendor-rich O-E-O environment for production and test**
**A specialized space for new implementations and integrations of infrastructure: **
**40 racks for networking *****and***** computing, data management and visualization support equipment**** **
**Home to fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, Level3, T-Systems, Looking Glass, RCN, and I-WIRE, custom integrators, like MCI for DREN**

**Notes:**
StarLight implementation followed the successful strategy of bilateral layer2 peering that made STAR TAP work.  StarLight, like STAR TAP, is an exchange point, not a network.  Hence we can make major upgrades and deal with special needs, hard to do if a whole national-scale network needs to be involved. We also have layer3 services (and above, like Grid middleware experiments) for willing partners.  StarLight is focused on the needs of e-science and supporting experimental networks.

## *Lights

***Lights are open bandwidth concentrators and  exchanges ****(StarLight, NetherLight, UKLight, NorthernLight, Pacific Wave, MANLAN, *****etc...*****)**
***Lights usually also deliver Grid cyberinfrastructure services, such as computing, storage and visualization support**
***Lights disrupt old pricing structures from the traditional telcos, which kept the prices high**
***Lights deal with big data streams and map them economically to the least expensive services they need**

## Example: UKLight

- SuperJANET
- R&D Network

- GEANT

- UKLightLondon

- StarLightChicago

- NetherLightAmsterdam

- CERN

- CzechLight

*Local Research Equipment*

- International Point-of-Access

- CA*net

- Abilene

**Example: UKLight**

- 10Gb/s

- 10Gb/s

- 10Gb/s

- 10Gb/s

- 10Gb/s

- 2.5Gb/s

**Source: Peter Clarke, David Salmon**

## 2004 *Lambdas

- –10Gb  Amsterdam—Chicago
- –10Gb  London—Chicago
- –10Gb Amsterdam—NYC
**Canadian lambdas to US (white)**
- –30Gb Chicago-Canada-NYC
- –30Gb Chicago-Canada-Seattle
**US to Europe (grey)**
- –10Gb  Chicago—Amsterdam
**Japan JGN II lambda to US (cyan)**
- –10Gb Chicago—Tokyo
**European lambdas (yellow)**
- –10Gb Amsterdam—CERN
- –2.5Gb Prague—Amsterdam
- –2.5Gb Stockholm—Amsterdam
- –10Gb London—Amsterdam
**IEEAF lambdas (blue)**
- –10Gb NYC—Amsterdam
- –10Gb Seattle—Tokyo
**CAVEWave/PacificWave (purple**)
- –10Gb Chicago—Seattle
- –10Gb Seattle—LA—San Diego

**2004 *Lambdas**

**NorthernLight**

**UKLight**

**CERN**

**Japan**

***Lambdas are extended exchanges that allow application-initiated lightpath construction**
***Lambdas connect *Lights**
***Lambdas enable GLIF in 2004 and beyond**

## Example: CAVEWave 10Gb on the National LambdaRail:

***Example: CAVEWave***** 10Gb on the National LambdaRail:**
**EVL ****↔**** Cal-(IT)****2****  via StarLight, Pacific Wave**

**Source: John Silvester, Dave Reese**
**Tom West, Ron Johnson**

## Details: StarLight Chicago Infrastructure

## Thank You!

**TransLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: **
**National Science Foundation (NSF) awards SCI-9980480, SCI-9730202, CNS-9802090, CNS-9871058, ****SCI-0225642, ****and CNS-0115809**
**State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing**
**Northwestern University for providing space, power, fiber, engineering and management**
**Pacific Wave, StarLight, National LambdaRail, CENIC, PNWGP, CANARIE, SURFnet, UKERNA, and IEEAF for Lightpaths**
**DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and design**
**Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)****2 **** for I-WIRE and OptIPuter leadership**