1. Abilene Update SC'99 :: Portland :: 17-Nov-99

2. Outline Goals Architecture Current Status NGI Peering International Peering Multicast

3. Goals Support very high data-rates –OC-48 in phase 1 Minimize speed-of-light delay Provide Sonet access at over 100 Qwest PoPs Support advanced IP functionality such as multicast and QoS Support advanced applications!

4. Core Architecture Router Nodes –About 10-15, located at Qwest PoPs –Cisco 12008 routers –Out-of-band access, Surveyor Interior Circuits –Qwest OC-48 and OC-12 Sonet –Simple POS between Router Nodes

5. Seattle Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Abilene Core :: Nov-1999 Sacramento Los Angeles Denver Indianapolis

6. Seattle Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Abilene Core :: spring 2000 Sacramento Los Angeles Denver Indianapolis Washington

7. Access Architecture Access Circuit: site to Router Node –OC-3, OC-12 now; OC-48 possible –IP/Sonet or IP/ATM framing Access Node: any Qwest Sonet PoP –Backhaul from Access Node to Router Node viewed as part of Abilene –Local from site to Access Node varies

8. Abilene Connections :: Nov-1999

9. Abilene Connections :: now and in process

10. Summary of Connections Connections –28 now –9 on the way Participants –102 now –27 on the way

11. The Abilene Team Qwest Communications Nortel Cisco Indiana University (NOC) MCNC and OARnet (ITEC) UCAID

12. NGI Peering Internet2 and federal NGI networks peer at a set of NGI exchanges, or NGIXes –Chicago (same ATM switch as StarTAP) –NASA Ames –Univ Maryland College Park, near DC Other ad hoc connection points also exist

13. JETnets Interconnections and Peering MAE-East vBN S @DS3 NISN @DS3>OC3 pt o DREN @?? pt o ESne t @DS3 pt o NGIX-CH (AADS) Abilene @OC12 tctc / pt o vBN S @OC12 tctc / pt o NREN @OC3 shsh / pt o NISN @OC3 shsh / pt o DREN @OC3 pt o ESne t @OC3 shsh / tctc / pt o Sprint NY-NAP vBN S @DS3 NISN @DS3 pt o DREN @?? pt o ESne t @DS3 shsh ?/ pt o MCIW-PYM vBN S @OC3 NREN @OC3 shsh NISN @OC3 shsh ESne t @OC3 shsh / pt o NGIX-DC (UMCP) Abilene @OC12 tctc vBN S @OC3 tctc ? NREN @OC3 NISN @OC3 shsh ? DREN @OC3 ESne t @OC3 shsh ? MAX (BA ATM) Abilene (temp) @OC3 tctc vBN S @OC3 tctc SDSC vBN S @OC12 tctc ESne t @DS3 tctc NGIX-SF (Ames) Abilene @OC12 tctc vBN S @OC3 NREN @OC3 NISN @OC3 tctc, pt o DREN @OC3? pt o ESne t @OC3 shsh ? FIX/MAE-West (Ames) NISN @OC3 tctc, pt o DREN @? pt o ESne t @DS3 pt o Sox/Atlanta Abilene @OC12 tctc vBN S @OC3 tctc ESne t @DS3? tctc UCB/ CalRE N Abilene (temp) @OC12 tctc ESne t @OC12 shsh : SHare d circuit to the exchange point tctc : circuit also serving as Tail Circuit for some customers pt o : Peering Traffic with Others (non- JETnet s ) goes on the same circuit temp: Temporary peering until a nearby NGIX is established NGIX Public Exchange Point Private Exchange Point JETne t : connected to the exchange point JETne t : plan to connect to the exchange point JETne t : no current plan to connect but maybe desired JB 5Oct99 NREN @OC3 pt o

14. Specific Abilene NGI Peering vBNS: Chicago and Washington NREN: Ames and Chicago NISN: Chicago DREN: Ames and Chicago ESnet: Berkeley, Chicago, Atlanta Theme: reduce latency in univ-lab paths

15. International Peering Focused on non-US advanced R/E networks Supports StarTAP exchange point But also uses other peering locations to minimize: –latency –cost burden for peer

16. ISP SURFnet NORDUnet Chicago New York City Europe Teleglobe Qwest Abilene

17. ISP SURFnet NORDUnet Chicago New York City Europe Teleglobe Qwest Abilene

18. Joint Techs Meeting Miami, Florida, 6-8 December 1999 Joint project of: –Internet2 –NLANR Advanced networking technology and infrastructure consultation www.internet2.edu/html/dec99miami.html

19. Goals for SC'00 Increase support for native multicast Increase experience with high-speed wide-area TCP –Web100 project beginning Make OC-12 (600 Mb/s) performance ordinary

20. The Bottom Line for SC'99 The aggressive combination of high- speed computing and high-speed networking is exactly why Internet2 infrastucture, including Abilene, have been built We welcome the challenge to support this!