1. AARNet Update or what are those crazy aussies up to? Winter Joint Techs, Albuquerque 2006

2. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd2 What have we been doing? Rebuilding the AARNet3 backbone Building an optical network TEIN2 Project SXTransPORT in association with TransLight/PacificWave

3. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd3 Rebuilding the AARNet3 Backbone Replace Procket 8812 routers with Juniper M320 routers Still need to deploy Juniper M20 routers in smaller POPs Still some redundancy to complete

4. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd4 Building an optical network Using dark fibre on the Nextgen Networks footprint, Adelaide to Brisbane via Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney Need some construction to reach customers To be lit with Cisco ONS15454 and provide Gigabit Ethernet to customers and STM-64c to AARNet3 backbone

5. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd5 AARNet and TEIN2 Non beneficiary partner of TEIN2 project (an EU initiative) Improve linkage within Asia and to Europe Facilitated better pricing for westward circuits, but need better cable between Perth and Singapore AARNet will provide transit to Seattle as well as access to AARNet (includes USP in Fiji and University of Hawai`i)

6. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd6 SXTransPORT Joint initiative of AARNet and Southern Cross Cable Networks (with some funding support from the Australian Government) Dual Trans Pacific STM-64c –Sydney (UTS), Honolulu, Seattle –Sydney (NXG), Mauna Lani, Los Angeles Northern path active as layer3 link –Connects to Pacific Wave and the University of Hawai`i, Manoa –Has AUP similar to Abilene Southern path to be optical –Still a work in progress

7. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd7 Southern Path of SXTransPORT GLIF capable Need Lambda Exchange in LA One Gigabit Ethernet to backup our STM-64c to Seattle Others available to Australian researchers and facilities, for GLIF or “trade” Catalyst for improving connectivity to international Telescope facility at summit of Mauna Kea, Hawai`i

8. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd8 Next step the Atlantic? :)

9. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd9 Round trip time v Capacity 10Gbps circuits interconnect via Pacific Wave, –276 ms Sydney to Tokyo But lower latency available via smaller circuits such as TEIN2, –170 ms via Singapore –215 ms via Honolulu How do we select “best” path? Might use MPLS TE but it’s manual to work out which path is “best”

10. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd10 What’s next? IPv6 Unicast –Encourage customers to connect IPv6 Multicast –Although is anyone listening? Expand footprint even further! –Use Australia Japan Cable? Instrument the network –QoS performance –Routing performance

11. © 2006 AARNet Pty Ltd11 Questions? Contact details: Mark Prior Chief Technology Officer AARNet mark.prior@aarnet.edu.au