National LambdaRail, Inc – Confidential & Proprietary 1 National LambdaRail Overview/Review 3 May...

National LambdaRail, Inc – Confidential & Proprietary

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National LambdaRail

Overview/Review

3 May 2005

Internet2 Spring Members Meeting

Layers 2 & 3 User’s BOF


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What is National LambdaRail?

• NLR is a membership-driven set of internetworking facilities, capabilities, and services for the Research and Education community.

• NLR is planned to be capable of supporting both production and experimental networks.– Not a single network or a single testbed but facilities

to build multiple networks and multiple testbeds at all of layers 1-3 including optical, switched, and routed.

– Goal is to have both persistent and flexible infrastructure(s).


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What is NLR for?

• Supporting experimental and production networks

• Fostering networking research

• Promoting next-generation applications

• Facilitating interconnectivity among high-performance research and education networks


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Why are we doing all this?

• To facilitate research collaboration

• To provide control by ownership (IRUs and gear)

• Ensure connectivity—end to end

• Provide quick response to researchers

• Build a flexible environment for future network development without worrying about infringing on production services

• Ensure cost containment


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National LambdaRailMission statement

• Putting the Promise of Experimental Network Infrastructure into the Hands of Our Nation's Scientists and Researchers.

• National LambdaRail (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications.

• NLR aims to catalyze innovative research and development into next generation network technologies, protocols, services and applications.


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National LambdaRail• The goal is to be as flexible as possible to allow the

widest range of experiments possible, and create a dynamic research environment where new capabilities and services are added to the infrastructure baseline.

• 50% of infrastructure resources are allocated for networking research (in NLR bylaws and contractually obligated).

• AUP-free so there will not be an artificial barrier to collaboration between researchers in universities, government labs or industrial labs.


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National LambdaRail

• Membership organization– Members are research & education organization and consortia

of universities– Plus corporate members -- Cisco Systems (all hardware), also

Level(3) and WilTel.

• NLR, Inc – is national 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.• NLR Board of Directors made up of representatives

from members (or appointed by members).• web site: www.nlr.net


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Current NLR Participants• CENIC

• Pacific Northwest GigaPOP

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

• Duke University (representing coalition of NC universities)

• Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership

• Cisco Systems

• Internet2

• Florida LambdaRail

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

• Cornell University

• Louisiana Board of Regents

• UCAR (representing Front Range GigaPOP/Intermountain GigaPOP)

• Oklahoma State Board of Regents

• Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN)

• University of New Mexico representing the state of NM

• SURA

• Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)

• Case Western Reserve University


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NLR Organization• Tom West – CEO of NLR, Inc• Development & Operations

– led by Dave Reese/CENIC (Layer1) and Dave Jent/IU (L 2/3) – NLR implementation/facilities planning – Grover Browning– NLR Engineering Committees – Dave Reese, Chair

• Technical Support Services– (next slide)

• Network Research Council (NRC) – Provides direction for NLR research agenda– David Farber – Chief Scientist and NRC Chair


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NLR Technical Support Services

• NLR NOC (Service Desk) – Indiana University

• NLR Layer 1 NOC – CENIC

• Layer 2/3 Support Center – L2/3 engineering lead by Indiana University

• Experiments Support Services – lead by MCNC in conjunction with the NLR Network Research Council


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The NLR Infrastructures (plural)

• Owned Fiber: 20-yr IRUs with Level 3, Wiltel• Layer 1 Optics: Cisco 15808s and 15454s supporting

up to 40 10 Gbps lambdas (LANPHY)• Layer 2: Cisco 6509 switches for Gigabit Ethernet• Layer 3: Cisco CRS-1 routers for IP (v4/v6)• Wavelengths available for experimental or production

networks• Dark Fiber possible, for experimental Layer 1

research


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National LambdaRail

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How will we as a community use NLR?

Different types of users (ESS will talk more on this):• Some users want to do research OVER NLR (facility)

– Whole 10G lambdas– Point to point VLANs (perhaps bandwidth guaranteed)– Production routed IP traffic?

• Some may want to do research ON NLR (network, control, signaling, protocols)

– GMPLS? OBS? ?– Layer 2?– Layer 3?

• Some may want to do a combination– Interaction between experimental and production?– Interaction between layers?


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What about Collaboration?

• Yes, interaction and collaboration with regional networking efforts.

• Yes, continue collaborations with international partners in advanced networking at all layers.

• What about collaboration with other corporate organizations?

• Details of how these will happen are being worked out. We currently have few drivers at layers 2 and 3.


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NLR Development Status• NLR Layer 1 (layers 2 and 3 next...)

– Cisco Optical Network System (ONS) 15808 and 15454 chassis.

– Level3 and WilTel: fiber, co-location and hands & eyes. Also some sites like PacWave provide similar services.

– Phase 1: California-Seattle-Denver; Chicago- Pittsburgh-DC-Atlanta-Jacksonville FL completed in 2004.

– Phase 2: In progress, happening over the summer and into early fall. Wash DC – New York – Cleveland build, spur to Salt Lake City (15454s from Ogden, UT), southern route build - uses Cisco 15454s (instead of 15808s).


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NLR User Resources

• http://noc.nlr.net

• [email protected]



• What else do we need to have eventually? User list? Anything else?

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