1. NOC meeting report Aug. 29, 2003 Kazunori Konishi

2. NOC meeting Agenda 1.Chris Robb @Indiana Univ.: "TransPAC upgrade, the network design and the operation“ 2.John Barlow @AARNet: "Australian networks and the services“ 3.Yu-lin Chang & Wen-Shui Chen (APAN-Taiwan): "International IP Network of Taiwan Academic Network” 4.Jin Tanaka @KDDI: "Analysis of trouble tickets issued by APAN-JP NOC" 5.Charter

3. Summary Operation database including Trouble Ticket should be collaboratively developed. The database will be accessed via Web browser. Network updates & Issues were reported: –TransPAC of 2.x 2.5Gbps –Australian Network Initiatives –Taiwan international links Trouble ticket analysis has cleared the way to improve Service Level.

4. New Network Diagram

5. Australian Research and Education Network

6. Topology of TWAREN –Backbone: 80 G –GigaPoPs: 145 G –Dark Fiber: 6 Taichung Hsinchu 20G 10G Tainan Taipei Sinica NCU NCTHU NCNU CCU NCKU NSYSU NTU NDHU NCTU NTHU 10GE 5GE fiber 10GE or fiber

7. Reasons for Outage Time

8. How to Improve Service Level Automatic trouble ticket system Remote trouble shooting system WWW server for the operation database Redundant network configuration Monitoring technologies for lower layers

9. NOC & Engineering Team NOC & Engineering team should be merged for better collaborations. Director: Kazunori Konishi Deputy Directors: John Barlow Jaewha Lee

10. Charter APAN member networks have diversified characteristics based on varied environments: geography, national network infrastructure, research activities, etc. Some countries are playing the key role for the advanced IT technologies for the globe, whereas the others are connected to APAN via the narrow band links of satellite links. NOC/Engineering team will work for advanced network services as well as basic connectivity services, to meet the requirements from both advanced networks and developing networks; both services should be provided consistently for helping developing networks grow up to be the advanced networks.

11. Charter (cont.) The main activities are classified as follows: (1) Coordinate network operation activities 24 x 7 basic operation Common tools for the basic operation Information sharing for the operation Promotion of the collaborations (2) Joint works between researchers and NOC folks for advanced services and experiments Experiments on advanced technologies Design of the networks with advanced features Performance tuning with advanced operation & measurement tools Evaluation of experiments & demos

12. Presentation Materials Have been uploaded at www.jp.apan.net Busan Meetingwww.jp.apan.net