DCN DeploymentandNOC Collaboration Tool
Jin Tanaka

APAN-JP NOC/KDDI/NICT SPARC

Network Engineering Workshop
in 27th APAN Kaohsiung Meeting
March 5 2009Kaohsiung Taiwan
1Agenda1. DCN Deployment
1) Introduction of DCN
2) DCN live demonstration
3) NICT DCN Experiment at SC08
4) Next Steps and Future Work

2. NOC Collaboration Tool
1) Importance of Understanding of Application
2) Proposal for development of NOC
Collaboration Tool2

1. DCN Deployment

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Introduction of DCN• DCN: Dynamic Circuit Network• Provides connection type of service• VLAN path is created by user request-Through the control plane’s WEB interface
Through the API for original client application• DCN Control Plane Software Suite is developed by Internet2• Connections crossing multiple domains coordinated using
internationally developed IDC protocol• Internet2 has already started DCN pilot service, they areperforming the experiment of inter-domain connection withEurope4

Illustrated Introduction of DCN
Web Interface

IDC•XML Request•Authentication•Schedule Reservation•Request VLAN
•Request Bandwidth

IDCIDC•XML Request•XML Topology Exchange•XML Topology Exchange•Path Creation•Path Creation•Path Creation
DC/vlsr

DC/vlsr

DC/vlsr

DC/vlsr

DC/vlsr

Network2

DC/vlsr

Network3

Network1

User

End-to-End Ethernet VLAN Path

• Better Performance • Symmetric• Secure • Shorten Provisioning time
• Efficient usr of Network Resource

End System

End System
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DCN Software Suite
IDC(Inter-domain Controller)•- OSCARS-DC(Domain Controller)

Open source project maintained by Internet2 and ESNet
Accept circuit requests
Coordinates requests with other domains
Use IDC protocol which consist of web services as amessaging among Inter-domain
Web Interface
Book-ahead scheduling of circuits• - DRAGON-Open source implementation of GMPLS maintained byMAX, USC ISI EAST, and George Mason University
NSF fundProvides GMPLS protocol support for devices which do
not support GMPLS
One of the research project of GENI spiral 1, the firstphase of GENI prototyping

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DCN brief Live Demo• Inter-domain VLAN path creation between Kashima in Japan andHouston in US

Control Plane

Data Plane

JGN2plus
APAN-JP192.203.116.8

Internet2
TransPAC2

192.203.116.8

Here!
Kaohsiung

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SC08 NICT e-VLBI Experiment
SchematicMetsähovi, FI
Kashima, JPDCN
Dynamic Circuit NetworkAustin, US8

NICT SC08 Network Topology
MPLS/L2VPN

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Other DCN Activities

10Next Steps and Future Work -1of DCN systems in JGN2plus and APAN-JP• Installation
Linux based IDC and DCs- DCN Software Suite version 0.4- Establish control plane(dcn.jgn2plus.jp) and data plane on a nationwide- Connection test on multiple VLSRs in JGN2plus intra-domain- Connection test over inter-domain between JGN2plus and APAN-JP- Preparation works for the beginning of JGN2plus DCN pilot service

IDCDCFukuoka

Tsukuba
KashimaOtemachi
11Next Steps and Future Work -2Internet2KOREN
CERNETCSTNET
ThaiREN

IDC
DC

SingAREN

DCN connections to NRENs within APAN
• Expand
Having a Layer2 Ethernet connection with JGN2plus/APAN-JP-ThaiREN(Thailand), ASGC/ASCC(Taiwan),• SingAREN(Singapore),
KOREN(KOREA), CERNET/CSTNET(China)• Explore appropriate applications for global DCN connectionsin Asian region122. NOC Collaboration Tool

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R&E Applications Motivates
Networkingto Facilitation of New Networking Technology• Lead- Network engineer should understand research application to facilitate theadoption of network cyber-infrastructure to support R&E researchers.
• DCN, Multi-layer/Hybrid, Optical, Virtualization- Build advanced common tools and services• Traffic weathermap, NDT, RouteView, DVrelay- Develop and deploy middleware• perfSONAR, Phoebus, Eduroam

the foundations for sustainable NOC• -Strengthen
Joint research activates network connectivity and network operation

among RENs.
- Particularly, international collaborative project needs NOC cooperation- Better NOC cooperation bring a better results- Sharing operative information enable NOC to effective operation- To do this, there need more strong cooperation among NOCs, networkadmins, and researchers14NOC’s Aggressive Approach• Work with research communities actively engaged in globalcollaborations• Try to survey and collect information of current global research
project as much as possible• Create collected project lists of collaborative research and makeinformation available to other NOCs

• In addition above, provide necessary information for network
operation to other NOCs

• Gain detailed understanding of each research projects andoperation problems• Share results with not only NOC but also other domain researchcommunities, network admins and engineer staff in campus orlaboratory.

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Information-sharing Tool
Proposal of Integrated “Web based tool” that can share thosekind of information among NOCs
Requirements• -Essential
NOC information for understanding research projects- Link to NOC own web page of each asian REN/NRENs- Collaborative research project lists/Detailed application lists- Calendering of experiment and event schedule- Documentation management- Authentication for NOC and Network adminbased Software• Wiki- Atlassian Confluence(Enterprise wiki), Clocking IT, Twiki, Mediawiki,
we need support/tracking system among NOCs?
• DoTrac,Redmine, Plone, Request Tracker-• - Management
Public web NOC and Network admin with Authentication- APAN-JP NOC install tool and compile content responsibly
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Information-sharing Tool
- Blueprint NOC

NRENResearchDOCs
Project ListNOC

SearchOngoing
EventOperational/
Technical InfoCalenderREN

Account

External
CalenderChat/
Message
Board

NOC A

NOC DNet
Admins A

NOC C
17Impression Evaluationof Software• For summary, below is the table showing ranks of each softwarefrom 1 to 5 according to four core criteria
Accessible

Functional

Extensible

OperableAtlassian
Confluence

5455Trac

4553Mediawiki

5334Clocking IT453318

Atlassian Confluence(Enterprise wiki)

19What do we need for Further
Collaboration?
Subject/Application

Communication

Authentication
Function
Operation Tools

Grasp the ResearchProject

Grasp the NOC Situation

Convenient Tool

Required Software/Hardware

Video System

Polycom, MCU

IP Phone

Skype

SMS

MSN messenger, iChat, Skype
Acrobat Connect Pro

Web conference

Cisco WebEX
Access Grid

RoutingCompath Tool(APAN Route View)

Performance

perfSONAR

Router/Switch Status

Router Proxy

Collaborative Web

WikiDocument Management

Docshare/WikiContact Point

Cyworld, Myspace, Facebook, etc.

Scheduling

Google Calender/CalDAV

Tracking

Trac, Redmine
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DCN Acknowledgment
DCN Staff• Internet2John Vollbrecht- Andrew Lake

NOC
• TransPAC2Brent Sweeny- John Hicks

SCinet• StarLIGHT/SC08
Linda Winkler-Researchers• NICTMamoru Sekido- Hideki Otsuki• JGN2plus & APAN-JP NOC Staff
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References•“Dynamic Networking over TransPAC2” Brent Swenny & Jin Tanaka
http://www.jp.apan.net/meetings/0808-NZ/transpac_update_0808.pdf
http://www.jp.apan.net/meetings/0808-NZ/apan-nz-eng-tanaka-rev10.pdf

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“ DCN”, http://www.internet2.edu/dcresearch/“Internet2 Dynamic Network Circuit”., http://www.internet2.edu/network/dc/“OSCARS”, http://www.es.net/oscars/“DRAGON” ,http://dragon.maxgigapop.net/“SC08”, http://sc08.supercomputing.org/.
“Atlassian Confluence”, http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/“Clokng IT”, http://www.clockingit.com/“Media Wiki”, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki“Trac”, http://trac.edgewall.org/“Redmine”, http://www.redmine.org/“Plone” http://plone.org/
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