1. Janet Update 3 rd VLBI Technology Workshop – 13th Nov 2014 - Groningen David Salmon

2. Topics Jisc / Janet status Janet6 Test networks E-Infrastructure & industry – Janet Reach… Cloud & datacentre acivities…

3. Jisc / Janet Two companies – Jisc - now a charity – the holding company – Jisc Collections and Janet – a wholly owned subsidiary Governance – Universities UK, Guild HE, Association of Colleges (AoC) - 30% each – Institutional - 10% Janet network charge / Jisc subscription model – Jisc wrote to all organisations connected to Janet – Charging model changed – commencing this August (14/15) – Details on Jisc web site – Subscription model may change in future… Some rationalisation taking place – See Jisc web site – “Front of House” NB david.salmon@jisc.ac.ukdavid.salmon@jisc.ac.uk

4. Janet 6 Optical 40/100G Long term – 10+ years for fibre leases – options to extend Transmission equipment refresh after ~7+ years Roadmap to next capacity increment per wavelength (400G ?) More flexible optical architecture Direct management of optical infrastructure Huge capability for additional capacity Continued integration & development of Regions Majority of “Research intensive” Universities “on-fibre” 100G to GEANT 700G Total external peering capacity (UK ISPs, bilaterals and IP commodity)

6. Janet6 and e-Infrastructure fibre

7. Janet Network Services IP – v4, v6 – unicast & multicast Layer 2 – Set close to MEF definitions (Metro Ethernet Forum) Point-to-point ethernet private wires VLANs etc. – Service definitions & costs/charges being developed – NB – Matching to GEANT services needs care “Lightpaths” – committed/uncommitted capacity… “Optical” – 40 & 100G – true optical – 10G – part of 4*10G multiplexed service

8. Site connectivity to Janet Current Janet policy - provide IP capacity according to need – Encourage sites to help research groups use the network – Don’t want “suppressed demand” Janet Network inherently very capable – enormous latent capacity – does cost money to enable this (and take time) light extra 40/100 Gbit/s wavelengths Procure extra access circuits

9. Astronomy community use “Lightpaths” to Manchester / Jodrell Bank – eVLBI work & expres/Nexpres – Aggregate 4-6Gbit/s over 10G access circcuit LOFAR – Station at Chilbolton – 10G physical connection – Connects to Dwingeloo via GEANT & Surfnet UK Internal – Cambridge to Edinburgh 1G – for data transfer

10. Janet Testbed facilities Aurora2 / NDFIS SDN overlay

11. JANET Aurora - 2013 Intermediate equipment co-location point University / JANET access point Fibre spans International Lightpath access to other NRENs via JANET & GEANT JANET Lightpath access to other UK Locations University of Cambridge University of Essex UCL University of Southampton Telehouse London 550km of fibre-pairs VM Brentford PoP VM Camberley PoP VM Crawley Court PoP VM Chelmsford PoP VM Enfield PoP VM Ipswich PoP VM Bury St Edmonds PoP 31km 52km 58km 43km 30km 55km 57km 54km 50km 72km

12. NDFIS Topology

13. First Experimental SDM Network Demonstration over 680 Km NDFIS dark fiber – ECOC 2013 Postdeadline V. J. Rancaño, et. al, JTh2A.19/OTh1C.2, OFC 2013 Four AoD nodes and two 7-core fibre links. Elastic multi-granular switching in space, frequency and time. Multi Wavelength Converter

14. NDFIS Topology NPL Harwell Oxford Campus – Satellite applications Broader collaboration – NPL & Europe

15. Software Defined Transmission Network

16. Intermediate node

17. Illustrating capabilities of remote fibre switch Slides from Martyn Fice at UCL Flexibility of remote fibre switching

18. In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west) DCM Drop to NetFPGA Drop to L2 Switch Add from NetFPGA Add from L2 Switch 8x8 switch connections NB: ‘east’ and ‘west’ correspond to direction of traffic flow on connected fibre, e.g.: DCM Froxfield In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west)

19. In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west) DCM Drop to NetFPGA Drop to L2 Switch Add from NetFPGA Add from L2 Switch Pass through – no amp DCM Froxfield In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west)

20. In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west) DCM Drop to NetFPGA Drop to L2 Switch Add from NetFPGA Add from L2 Switch Pass through – with amp DCM Froxfield In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west)

21. In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west) DCM Drop to NetFPGA Drop to L2 Switch Add from NetFPGA Add from L2 Switch Pass through – 2-stage DCM DCM Froxfield In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west)

22. In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west) DCM Drop to NetFPGA Drop to L2 Switch Add from NetFPGA Add from L2 Switch Loop back – no amp DCM Froxfield In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west)

23. In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west) DCM Drop to NetFPGA Drop to L2 Switch Add from NetFPGA Add from L2 Switch Loop back – with amp DCM Froxfield In (east) In (west) Out (east) Out (west)

24. Bristol High Performance Networks Group Lab

25. Nipper !

26. SDNs / Openflow Desire to collaborate Broader UK discussions Maybe 10+ UK Universities interested in some way Janet will help – modest Openflow overlay to interconnect/interact Research Council funded projects – TOUCAN – EPSRC Programme Grant Bristol, Edinburgh, Lancaster £12M (£6M+£6M) – 5 Years Photonic – Layer2 – Access (Wireless +??) – Other smaller individual projects Many, many open questions…. – Management, partitioning/delegation…. SDN Overlay & connecting “Testbeds”

27. Requirements & considerations Topology – Richer than at triangle – can we afford more ? – maybe 4 nodes ? Management – Who does it ? Janet or a research project – mixed mode ? – scheduled ? Slicing / partitioning – Can this be realised ? Delegation of control / management within the partitions – What are the constraints (if any) ? Openflow – Which version ? 1.0 or 1.3 ? Legacy compatibility issues with projects such as Ofelia Real users & traffic ? – Maybe – Lancaster have achieved this Work with research community to refine these Acquire 3 or 4 devices and deploy them – Operational Autumn ?

28. Four node topology – Indicative & evolving London Bristol North Edinburgh Lancaster Bristol GEANT…Wor ld Midlands Maybe 2 physical 10G paths per node Others would be VPNs/logical paths Not determined precise configuration yet NOT Exclusive, but only TOUCAN lead sites shown

29. SDN Overlay & Aurora2 Janet service components Layer 3 (IP) – Tunnels/VPNs Layer 2 – Janet “Lightpaths” Ethernet / MPLS – committed capacity – VPNs – uncommitted capacity - future Layer 1 – Optical: whole wavelengths – 40G / 100G in core Londo n Bristol North Edinburgh Lancaster Bristol GEANT …Worl d

30. Some answers… Enterprise Hardware – HP 3800 (6) 4*10G + 48*1G – Brocade Netiron 2024C (2) 4*10G + 24*1G – NEC – much too expensive… Four node WAN topology - HP Four Janet lab systems – 2 Brocade – Broader technology & feature exploration

31. Controller software and management ? HP proprietary Open Daylight – Both HP and Brocade are compatible (we’re told !) Stanford flowvisor ? – Role in slicing / partitioning – Looks interesting & appropriate (on paper !) Much more work to be done here – Work with community to steer & advise

32. Janet - e-Infrastructure & Industry Outreach with moonshot pilot (AAI) Connecting to Janet – Janet Reach – State aid compliant scheme – Industry organisation must apply Innovative project Meet state aid funding proportionalities – Janet connection value / total project value Should be a high-capacity need – Scheme operating on 2 monthly cycles until around April 2015 (perhaps a little longer)

33. Datacentres Slough – Procurement & contracting complete – Janet Network provision in progress – Major centre on Janet – Very open - Tenants install their own racks & equipment Anchor tenants – QM, Kings, LSE, UCL, Crick, Sanger – Open to all Strong interest, probably more to come…

34. Cloud & outsourced services Building on brokerage work in past Looking a central procurement of cloud “capacity/capability” Cost savings through economies of scale ? Soliciting requirements – what do people want ? – Is there a requirement for elastic expansion into commercial capacity ? – seeking peoples’ views here Discussions on “UK Data Architecture” ! Commencing – Feed into Research Council Workshop next year SIGs with major communities represented – Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Natural Environment Weather & Climnate, Bioinformatics

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