ATRIUM: A testbed of terabit IP routers running MPLS over DWDM Main Objective: Develop an advanced testbed for experiments and validation of an Advanced Terabit Router (ATR) : the Research, Design and experiment with a set of traffic management algorithms and protocols
Consortium Alca te l Pa rtn e r FTR&D Fra n ce Te le co m Mobistar Te le fo n ica I+ D Poznan SuperComputing and Networking Center Universite de Liege Facultes Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix Namur IM EC - G h e n t M a jo r Fo ca l Po in ts Eq u ip m e n t (A TR ro u te rs ) In s t a lla t io n Te stin g Re se a rch Coordination Dem onstration N e tw o rk insta lla tio n a nd m a in te na nce Te stin g Re se a rch Dem onstration N e tw o rk insta lla tio n a nd m a in te na nce Te stin g Dem onstration N e tw o rk insta lla tio n a nd m a in te na nce Te stin g Dem onstration In sta lla tio n Re se a rch Te stin g Dem onstration Re se a rch Te stin g Dem onstration Re se a rch Te stin g Dem onstration
Objectives of the project Develop an advanced testbed for experiments and validation of an Advanced Terabit Router (ATR) : the WP1 : Installation and integration of the Network WP2 : Conformance, Interoperability and Performance testing Research, Design and experiment with a set of traffic management algorithms and protocols WP3 : Intra-domain traffic engineering, Use of QOS in MPLS, Resilience, Multicasting WP4 : Inter domain traffic engineering Test the final version of the ATR with very high demanding applications WP5 : Demonstration and Experiments Specify, Test and validate a NMS to operate and monitor IP QOS and MPLS enabled Core Networks WP6 : IP Core Network Management Platform
ATRIUM network topology Internet Network active since June 2001 Póznan - PSNC Antwerp - Ghent- Alcatel `IMEC BELNET Lannion- FT R&D STM-16 Liège - Ulg, Fundp VTHD Paris - FT R&D Renater Géant Madrid - Telefónica I+D RedIris Nodes added August 2002
Testbed Configuration AS#2611 Liege SmartBits QA-Robot Netmeeting BELNET OC-3 3 x GE ATRIUM AS#65010 Madrid GE TID multimedia platform Antwerpen OC-12 OC-48 Paris OC-12 OC-12 Poznan PSNC GRID platform ATRIUM AS#65010 Netmeeting & IP TV client GE Cisco 7204 Juniper M40.1 3 x GE Traffic Engineering Platform SmartBits VTHD AS#20603 IP TV Server
Testbed: Cooperation with NRENs AS#2611 Liege SmartBits QA-Robot Netmeeting BELNET OC-3 3 x GE ATRIUM AS#65010 TID multimedia platform GE Antwerpen Netmeeting & IP TV client GE Cisco 7204 Juniper M40.1 OC-12 OC-48 3 x GE Traffic Engineering Platform SmartBits Paris OC-12 VTHD AS#20603 OC-12 IP TV Server L2 VPN Renater Geant RedIris ATRIUM AS#65010 PSNC PSNC GRID platform
Conformance, Interoperability and Performance testing of the A7770 Core router >Stand-alone test : Conformance and Performance of the A7770 & interoperability with selected network components like Cisco 12000, Juniper M160, Riverstone >QOS, MPLS-TE, BGP/IGP tests, forwarding tested by FT >multicast tested by Telefonica >IPv6 & VPN planned for Q3 Intra-card OC48 Throughput Uni-directional stream Measurements Theory 6000000 5000000 Rate (pps) 4000000 3000000 2000000 1000000 0-100 100 300 500 700 900 1100 1300 1500 IP-PDU length (bytes)
Traffic engineering Focus on traffic engineered E-LSPs Decentralized on-line algorithms Path computation at ingress nodes On-demand, per E-LSP Algorithms simulated Based on unreserved and/or unused bandwidth on links Needs to advertise link states in a scalable way Extensions to IGP proposed Algorithms Simulated Partnership between the University and Alcatel Detailed architecture study and impact analysis Exchange of software of the impacted modules Adaptation of existing interfaces Integration and Testing using the core routers of the ATRIUM network
Integration of Optical networking in ATRIUM Automated End-To-End Path setup (GMPLS Phase 1) HUB 5620 TSOM - TE Tool - LSP Request to Ingress LSR 1355 BOND OIF UNI Light-path request Confirmation Transport Management 2.5G 1,5G LSP A7770 1670SM 2x 2.5G A7770 STM-64 ring 1670SM 1670SM Transport Layer 2.5G A7770 Data Layer
Integration of Multimedia in ATRIUM Multicast Enabled Network Music-Games on-demand CISCO 7200 RNG-ATR TID RedIris Geant / Renater VTHD ATRIUM Paris Liege Antwerpen BELNET Video broadcast RS2000 RS8000 JUNIPER M5 PASSPORT 8600 RS8000 PASSPORT 8600 RS8000 RS3000 RS3000 Webcam PC client - PC-client PC-server PC-client PC-client HDTV PC-clients Muliparty videoconference VoP equipment PSNC Video server E-learning 100-BT GbE PoS
Integration of Grid computing tests in ATRIUM 3.5/0.1 FT 2.5/0.1 33/0.3 PSNC1 FUNDP 36/0.3 1/0.1 100M 622M 1G 1.5/0.2 ALCATEL 35/0.3ms PSNC2 Throughput/latency in an >Empty network >Congested network using >Traffic engineered tunnels >Diffserv classification and scheduling >Resilient network
Migration of Atrium towards IPv6 Currenlty IPv6 Cloud peering with the IPv6NGNlab in Brussels. Atrium will be upgraded to a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 in September Peering with VTHD and other IST IPv6 related projects IPv6 applications
Interop Tests VideoLAN streaming experiment with Brussels Universities (ULB/VUB)
Contact information Ir. Barbaix Wim ALCATEL Fixed Networks Division (FND) wim.barbaix@alcatel.be +32 3 240 4356