Los Nettos and Translight/Pacific Wave SC 08 November 16-20, 2008
20 years of networking The Los Nettos Regional Network was founded in 1988 by leading internet visionaries, Los Nettos continues to provide relatively low cost, high bandwidth, reliable connectivity to the internet and R&E research networks. The Los Nettos project is headquartered within USC s High Performance Computing and Communications Group. Los Nettos members are: Caltech, Claremont Colleges, JPL, LMU LA and USC. Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 2
The Network Los Nettos is comprised of member provided dark fiber and leased high speed circuits laid throughout the greater Los Angeles area. The network is connected to multiple upstream providers and peering partners. Los Nettos has a 10 gigabit connection to Pacific Wave where peering with national and international R&E networks takes place. The majority of the network backbone is 10 gigabit, there are some 1 gigabit backup links. These 1 gigabit circuits are scheduled for upgrade in early 2009. Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 3
The simple topology view JPL LLS Exchanges NTT CENIC ISP,HPR,DC Caltech USC/ISI OWB 818 Claremont Colleges Health Sciences CENIC-HPR LMU Nov 16-20, 2008 USC SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave Tustin Riverside CENIC-ISP SD CENIC-DC 4
Connectivity to R&E Networks and Exchanges USC Campus Dark Fiber Downtown LA Building LN 6506 Dark Fiber Downtown LA Building LN 6506 Dark Fiber Caltech Campus 10GigE Multiple GigE s* Pacific Wave Exchange CENIC *In process of being upgraded to 10 Gigabit NLR Internet2 Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 5
CENIC s CalREN
Future Plans Optical upgrade, 40 channels for operational and research use. Optical vendors are being evaluated. Provide facilities for initiatives such as Global Environment for Network Initiatives (GENI). Dynamic Circuit provisioning. Activating unutilized dark fiber. Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 7
What is Pacific Wave? Pacific Wave is an exchange supporting the interconnection of research and education networks on the West Coast of the US. Allows US R&E networks to peer with non US networks over international links; allows US R&E networks to peer with each other in a convenient and cost effective way; also allows non US networks to peer with each other in a neutral way. Pacific Wave is a joint project between the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), and is operated in collaboration with the University of Southern California and the University of Washington. Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 8
Pacific Wave Pacific Wave is a novel architecture since it is a distributed exchange allowing participants at any of its connection points (LA, Sunnyvale, Seattle, and extension to Tijuana) to interconnect in a transparent way. Pacific Wave supports Layer 3 peering over a layer 2 infrastructure (VLANS); layer 2 peering over a layer 2 interconnect (private VLANS); layer 1.5 interconnect (SONET/SDH, Internet2/DCN); and even direct layer 1 interconnect. Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 9
Trans Pacific Connections via Pacific Wave Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 10
Pacific Wave US Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 11
Pacific Wave Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 12
Australasian Nets (mostly) AARNET GEMNET GLORIAD KAREN KREONET MIMOS (Malaysia) QATAR SINET NUS-GigaPoP TANET/TWAREN TRANSPAC2 Uninet/ThaiREN R&E Networks and Pacific Wave (Layer 3 Participants) Canadian Nets CA*NET4 BCNet Pacific Wave CUDI Latin America Nets US Nets INTERNET2 CALREN (HPR) DREN ESNET Los Nettos NASA NLR NREN PNWGP Ultralight Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 14
Lightpaths (Layers 1.5 and 2) at PW Gloriad/KRLight JGN2Plus AARNET (S) (to TλEX) IEEAF Optiputer CA*NET4 Pacific Wave TransLight SEA-CHI (CRW) NLR Waves NLR Framenet CALREN-XD Internet2 DCN PNWGP Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 15
Pacific Wave at SC08 10 gigabit wave from NLR added to bring Pacific Wave to SC08. Demonstrations from international and national participants include: Caltech EVL/AARNet NTT/GEMNET University of Tokyo JGN2Plus/NICT Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 16
SuperComputing 2008 NLR DWDM 2x10GE PNWGP 6509 PNWGP-SEA 2001 6th Ave Westin Bldg PAIX-Palo Alto 529 Bryant PAIX 6509 10GE CENIC DWDM CENIC DWDM Level(3) 1360 Kifer, SVL Level(3) SVL 10GE 6509 2x10GE 2x10GE CENIC DWDM NLR DWDM Add 10GE Capacity Across PW Backbone Equinix-LA 600 W 7th Equinix-LA 818 W 7th CENIC DWDM 1 Wilshire-LA 624 S. Grand 2x10GE Equinix-600 6509 10GE Dark Fiber Equinix-818 6509 10GE Dark Fiber 1 Wilshire 6509 NLR DWDM 17 NLR 10GE: LA to Austin
Translight/PacificWave Cooperative Agreement [#0441119] under NSF OCI IRNC Program PI John Silvester (USC); Co PI Ron Johnson (UW) Other Key Partners CENIC, Jim Dolgonas PNWGP, Jacqueline Brown University of Hawaii, David Lassner AARNet, Chris Hancock (and George McLaughlin) Start date March 1, 2005 Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 18
Translight/PacificWave Primary Objectives are: 1. Assist in the termination (equipment, backhaul) of the Australian Research Network links from Sydney to the US West Coast (pays for the US portion of the links) 2. Provide funding to allow the links to stop off in Hawaii (on Oahu and the Big Island) 3. Provide funding to upgrade connectivity to the (international) observatories on Mauna Kea 4. Provide partial support for the operation of Pacific Wave exchange facility 5. Provide funding for upgrading the Pacific Wave Exchange to enable newer technologies including lightpath or circuit like switched connections for demanding applications 6. Provide funding for outreach to the user community (science and engineering researchers), especially in Australia and New Zealand Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 19
Australian Links (AARnet SX Transport) Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 20
AARNet-SX(N) To Kahe Point (HI) 1. SX Transport US West Coast Detail Hillsboro (OR) NLR link Portland (OR) SEA PW-Seattle (NLR) Pacific Wave N-S link(s) Los Osos (CA) SLO (CA) SNV (CalREN-XD) AARNet-SX(S) To Spencer Beach (HI) Optics to backhaul over CalREN-XD from SLO to LA LA Santa Barbara (CA) PW-Los Angeles Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 21
Hawaii Details AARNet- SX(N) To Sydney Kahe Point (Oahu) SC (N) OC-192 Hawaii Gigapop (Oahu) AARNet-SX(N) To Portland Spencer Beach (Big Island) AARNet-SX(S) To Los Osos AARNet-SX(S) To Sydney SC (S) OC-192 Waimea Hilo Nov 16-20, 2008 Mauna Kea (Base-Summit) SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 22
In Progress Establishing capabilities for switched lightpaths over Southern link Interface to Internet2 DC and NLR Framenet Switches in Sydney, Hawaii, and Los Angeles Planning a follow on application (e science) workshop in Australia/New Zealand in 2009 Explore possibilities to round out ring connectivity (cross link in HI, cross links on Asian side) Support for experiments and projects Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 23
For more information Celeste Anderson USC ITS HPCC celestea@usc.edu or celestea@pacificwave.net Los Nettos: www.ln.net Pacific Wave: www.pacificwave.net Translight/PacificWave: jsilvest@usc.edu Nov 16-20, 2008 SC08: Los Nettos and Pacific Wave 24