# Presentation: 665620

## NASA Optical Network Testbeds Workshop

- Mark Johnson
- Septamber 13, 2005

## NCREN services

- IP (Internet, Abilene, local ISP peering)
- Managed Interactive, broadcast-quality videoconferencing
- Data Center (Colo, systems and application hosting, storage)
- Layer 1 and Layer 2 transport (limited geographic coverage)
- Serving:
- University of North Carolina system campuses
- Most NC private colleges
- NC State Government
- Selected research partners

## NCREN Services

- All Optical
- 32 channels at 10Gbps Wave Division Multiplexing(WDM) capability within research triangle and to NLR
- NCREN delivers gigabit service to 14 of 16 campuses* and 2 private universities
- Over 3 gigabits per second of Internet service
- 2.4 gigabits per second of Internet2 access
- High quality video network - delivered over IP
- Facilities based network since 1985 (microwave, then fiber)
** All 16 will have gigabit service upon NCREN3 completion*

## NCREN: Statewide Video Network

- Provides centrally managed and coordinated services among universities and other institutions
- Enables fully interactive, face-to-face, live discussions among sites
- Supports up to 23 sites in a single conference
- Interoperates 5 different audio/video techniques
- NCREN integration of Video-over-IP (Internet Protocol) provides optimum flexibility:
- Point-to-point MPEG2 video sessions
- Point-to-point H.323 video sessions
- Multi-point H.323 sessions
- Gateways to NC State Gov’t  (ITS) network
- Ability to blend various video technologies

## Slide 5

## NCREN rPoP

- IP
- Transport
- Service

**Commercial**
**( ISP )**
**Services**

- ILEC/LEC
- Access

- LEC Access

- R&E
- Users

- Commercial
- Users

- To other NCREN
- POPs

- To other NCREN PoPs

- University1

- University2

- NCREN
- Services

**Cisco**
**7609**

**Cisco**
**12xxx**

- fiber

- rPOP
- Services

- University3

- Regional
- Users

- fiber

## History of Facilities-Based Networks in NC

- NCREN Microwave Network ~1985
- Video and Data Services
- North Carolina GigaPoP 1997
- MORPHnet implementation
- Research and Production on same infrastructure
- First Internet2 GigaPoP built in US
- 4 nodes: Fiber+SONET+ATM+IP
- Fiber purchase 1999 and expanded
- 6 nodes: Fiber+RPR and Fiber+WDM
- Redesign in 2003
- First Cisco 15454 WDM deployment
- Layer1(lambdas), Layer2 (Ethernet), Layer 3 (IP) matching NLR services

## NCNI Dark Fiber

- Qwest

- Level(3)

- Cisco

- NCSU
- Centennial

- ITS

- Duke

**UNC**

- MCNC

- RCH

- NCSU
- Hillsborough

**RENCI**

- NIEHS

- Dark fiber connected location
- Not yet connected

- Network
*Summer ‘05*

- Level(3) fiber

- TWTC fiber

- PTC fiber

- EPA

## NCNI Optical Capabilities

- Juniper
- T640

- Abilene
- Staging Testbed

- Campus
- LAN

- NCSU / Centaur Lab

- Ethernet
- Switch

- Ethernet
- Switch

- Sycamore
- SONET
- Switch
- (CHEETAH)

- Calient
- Optical
- Switch

- CISCO
- GSR

- MCNC

- Greensboro

- Raleigh

- Internet
- Level(3)

- Abilene

- CISCO
- GSR

- HOPI
- Staging testbed

- CHEETAH

- To NCSU

- To UNC

- To MCNC

- To Qwest

- To MCNC

## NCREN 5-year Roadmap (Optical Services)

- Expand geographic coverage of L1/L2 transport services (mapped to NLR offering)
- Actively develop control-plane testbed environment followed by production capability

## Slide 11

## Facilities-Based Regional Networks

## NCREN 5-year Roadmap (Optical Technology)

- ROADM Capability everywhere
- Optical GMPLS or similar control-plane capability
- Production support of alien waves

## Lambda “sharing”

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- 15808

- Washington

- Atlanta

- NCSU

- UNC

- Cisco

- Qwest

- MCNC

- Duke

- NCNI@ Level(3)

- NLR @ Level(3)

- today

- Fiber
- jumper

- 2

- 2

- 1

- 1

- 4

- 3

- Transponder

- 1

- 2

## Lambda “sharing”

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- 15808

- Washington

- Atlanta

- NCSU

- UNC

- Cisco

- Qwest

- MCNC

- Duke

- NCNI@ Level(3)

- NLR @ Level(3)

- soon

- 2

- 2

- 1

- 1

- 4

- 3

- Transponder

- 1

- 2

*optical*
*switch*

## Future Lambda “sharing”

- 15454

- 15454

- 15808

- Washington

- Atlanta

- NCSU

- Qwest

- NCNI@ Level(3)

- NLR @ Level(3)

- scenario

- UNC

- ITS

- RCH

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- 15454

- Optical switch

- 2

- 2

- 2

- 2

- 1

- RENCI

- 15454

- 1

## Key Themes / Issues

*Not a single network but a set of facilities, capabilities and services to build both experimental and production networks at various layers, allowing members to acquire dedicated (project specific) facilities or shared (community specific) facilities as appropriate. Aka MORPHnet [from NLR]*
- Focus on Regional Networking
- RPoPs facilitate development of local networks
- Provide delivery points for advanced services
- Grid compute nodes
- Video MCUs
- Measurement points
- Redundancy for application services
- Build a facilities-based network
- BE FLEXIBLE!
- *Regional Point of Presence

## Key research / issues

- Control-plane
- Bringing together the community of researchers investigating techniques to dynamically provision network capacity
- Integration with applications
- Helping eScience integrate dynamically provisioned networks into their applications
- Optical Networking
- Facilitating the sharing of information by research and education networks, developing best operating practices and service offerings
- Operations/Management
- Reliability, scalability, flexibility
- Money (funding/pricing/cost recovery, etc)

## NCREN 5-year Roadmap (Interoperability Issues)

- Support of client alien waves
- RON-RON
- Service mapping
- Service interoperability
- Resource allocation/provisioning
- RON-backbone
- Service mapping
- Service interoperabilityResource allocation/provisioning