CENIC and CALREN An Update

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1 CENIC and CALREN An Update John Silvester Chair of the CENIC Board Vice-Provost for Scholarly Technology, University of Southern California 5 o Workshop RNP2 Gramado, Brasil May 13 th, 2004

2 CENIC History (Corporation for Education Network Initiative in California) CalREN and DCP CalREN ONI CalREN Today Pacific Wave Related Activities (NLR, IEEAF)

3 Historical Review of CalREN Initial meetings NSF proposal for CalREN2 funded; CENIC incorporated CalREN2 operational, connect to vbns Connect to Abilene; ISP service launched DCP project launched ONI project launched; First DCP nodes operational ONI vendors selected; DCP 90% completed CalREN-DCP (optical edition) operational CalREN-HPR operational Pacific Wave linkup XD links operational as NLR comes up

4 Education in California Overview University of California 9 (10) campuses 3 Independent (private) Research Universities Caltech, Stanford, University of Southern California California State University 23 campuses Community Colleges over 100 Other independent institutions of higher education over 100 (public) K-12 schools over 9000 Various government labs and university affiliated research institutes

5 State of Networking in CNET connected the CSU system with extension out to community colleges Most institutions had their own commodity internet connections UC operated some private leased lines No statewide K-12 network Some individual county and school district networks

6 Impetus to Establish R&E Network in California - CALREN Expansion of the NSF Connections program to facilitate access to the super-computer centers Broadened to allow access to the high performance backbone (vbns( vbns) ) for meritorious research Acted as a stimulus to bring the Research Universities to create a joint proposal Two initial goals: Reduce costs of access to high performance national networks by a collaborative approach Facilitate communication and collaboration between institutions by building a CALifornia REesearch Network

7 How to Proceed? Decision that the network should be funded by the institutions rather than looking for a handout from the state or relying on Federal Government funding Startup funds came from a joint proposal on behalf of the R-1 s to the NSF connections program (12 campuses). This allowed the institutions to ease into the burden of covering the network costs over a 3 year period Founded a non-profit public benefit entity CENIC creating some separation from publicly funded entities (UC, CSU) Lightweight organization (1.5 FTE for first 3 years)

8 CENIC Initial 4-Year Funding Charter Associates $16 M 42% CENIC Partners $2 M 5% Corporate Discounts $14 M 37% Federal Funding $6 M 16%

9 Phase

10 Developments Direct funding from UC for a central valley link to link CalREN-north (SF) and CalREN-south (LA-SD) ISP took advantage of the aggregated buying power to leverage ISP contracts with multiple vendors significant savings (additional savings from Quilt pricing) Peering took advantage of peering opportunities at PAIX and MAE-LA

11 CENIC History CalREN and DCP (Digital California Project) CalREN ONI CalREN Today National LambdaRail (aka Lightrail) Pacific Wave IEEAF Pointers

12 Digital California Project DCP Digital California Project extend connectivity to (public) K-12 schools Funded from California State in FY 2000/01 $32M through University of California - implementation through CENIC Program Steering Committee - Advisory board of involved constituents from K-20 Subsequent budget reductions -- $26M -$21M - $14M eliminated as direct funding for now what?

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14 CENIC History CalREN and DCP CalREN ONI (Optical Network Initiative) CalREN Today National LambdaRail (aka Lightrail) Pacific Wave IEEAF Pointers

15 California R&E Networks in 2000 CALREN-2 advanced services network, owned and operated by CENIC (Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California) 4CNet owned and operated by Cal. State University DCP K-12 network- owned and operated by CENIC; being implemented Los Nettos dark fiber based CWDM Metro network owned and operated by USC and Caltech - last of the NSFnet regionals.

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17 Redesigning CALREN In late 1999, with the approaching end of current SONET contracts (late 2002), CENIC began thinking about the next generation CALREN User demand: Reliable commodity network High bandwidth network in support of research (Internet2-Abilene) Some demand for dedicated resources Significant interest for experimental and research networks at layerl 3, layer 2 and even layer 1 This formed the thinking for an integrated infrastructure built on dark fiber

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19 CALREN-DC Digital California IP based network backbone at GB Serves-140 H.E institutions; elementary and high schools 8.0 million+ student, faculty and staff users I2 connectivity and commodity ISP services.

20 CALREN-HPR High Performance Research Network IP network: 10Gb, potentially several wavelengths 50+ Research institutions, National Laboratories and San Diego Super-computing Center in California California component of Internet2 with 1-10G connections to campuses Serves hundreds of applications researchers, demanding applications

21 CALREN-XD Experimental/Development Network 10.0 Gb wavelengths and dark fiber Potential for wavelength switching and special network configurations Special applications, e.g. Teragrid Serves network and applications researchers in California research institutions primarily four UC Institutes; USC s ISI; Stanford; and Caltech

22 CENIC History CalREN and DCP CalREN ONI CalREN Today National LambdaRail (aka Lightrail) Pacific Wave IEEAF Pointers

23 CALREN - today 3 backbones one commodity, one production, one research oriented, sharing physical resources where applicable Integrated at the physical and operations level, separable at the link and network levels Separate local solution from long-haul solution (due to different possibilities, players) Combination of dark fiber and wavelengths

24 CalREN Backbone Network 2003

25 CalREN Waves UC Davis CalREN DC Sacramento Triangle Court HPR Oakland Sunnyvale Fergus Teragrid Soledad HPR & DC San Luis Obispo Fresno Los Angeles Bakersfield Santa Barbara Tustin San Diego

26 Calren/DC/HPR/XD POP Architecture CalRen DC HPR XD Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM DWDM 10 Gig E or OC192 Gig E λ switch/mux CalREN/DC HPR XD Campus or Metro Interconnect

27 Digital California Overlay

29 Expanding the reach? Multi-State interest in a larger geographic fiber based infrastructure Fiber vendor very interested in selling National footprint

30 National Light Rail - concept Dark Fiber National footprint Serves very high-end experimental and research applications including network research 4-10GB Wavelengths initially Capable of 40 10Gb wavelengths at build-out Partnership model (including corporate partners)

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33 U.S. Pacific Coast Peering Collaboration CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) and PNWGP (Pacific Northwest Gigapop) ) have combined efforts to create an advanced, extended peering facility on the U.S. West Coast. Concept: an extensible, geographically dispersed peering fabric Result: you connect at any one location on the fabric and have the option to peer with any other participant, regardless of where they are connected

34 Current Model

35 Summer LA & Seattle

36 Multi-Node Pacific Wave The Pacific Wave International Peering exchange facility will offer connection points initially in Los Angeles and Seattle, proximal to submarine cable landing sites on the U.S. Pacific Coast. Connection points to be connected by 10GE link derived from NLR Expected operation by Summer 2004

37 Future?

39 Tyco Global Network - Donations Connectivity Donations 622 Mbps +10 Gbps λ

40 Tyco Transpacific Donation Donated, Available when lit Available last December, 622Mbps Debut at Busan! 10G available in March!

41 TYCO Donation Key Elements TYCO Committed Assets Production R&E Bandwidth: 622 Mbps Research 10 Gbps optical wavelength (preemptable) 200 sq ft Co-location space in each of global facilities Trans-Atlantic and trans-pacific already operational Others to be made available as business case (for TYCO) becomes feasible.

42 For More Information CENIC: NLR: Pacific Wave: IEEAF: Acknowledgements Tom West: CENIC, NLR Jacqueline Brown: Pacific Wave Steve Corbato: : Internet2, NLR Don Riley: IEEAF Ed Fantegrossi: : GEO, IEEAF