The SURFnet Project Bram Peeters, Manager Network Services ICFA Workshop, Cracow, Poland 10th October 2006 Overview: - the Project and drivers Technical – how does it fit together

History of SURFnet infrastructure Exponential growth

Paradigm shift SURFnet4 project GigaPort DWDM Lambdas POS 1995 Next Generation 2003 1999 SURFnet4 network SURFnet5 network ATM 2008 SURFnet6 network Next generation is not a simple extrapolation of current networks Last major shift in project has been acquiring our own fiber  full control over infrastructure Need to shift with each generation

GigaPort project overview Research on networks Networks for research dependent advanced GigaPort Networks for Research realises a hybrid optical and packet switching network in partnership with the Industry Partner Research on Networks is geared towards SURFnet6 A number of large projects in different application areas are enabled to use the new possibilities of SURFnet6

Timelines SURFnet6 Timelines  now in full operation

SURFnet’s Partners: Industry partner builds the network Leader of the consortium Optical equipment Ethernet equipment Network management equipment Routing equipment Installation services Maintenance services

SURFnet’s Partners: NOC Alliance manages the network Leader of NOC Alliance Provides 7x24 hrs capability Member of NOC Alliance Expert group First point of contact for all trouble 7x24 hrs SURFnet Helpdesk:

Status SURFnet6 Network ready at end of 2005, carrying all SURFnet traffic mid December 2005 SURFnet6 NOC operational Transition finalized mid June 2006: 180 organizations 370 ports External connections SURFnet5 decommissioned and auctioned last summer External connections: AMS-IX, Geant, rest-of-world

SURFnet6 overview The first nation-wide hybrid optical and packet switching infrastructure Based on 6000+ km of SURFnet-owned managed dark fiber, all the way to the customers premises SURFnet6 delivers all SURFnet5 services (native IPv4 and IPv6) plus Lightpath Provisioning: Over a single transmission infrastructure Managed via a single control plane Hence, in an economically sound way

SURFnet6 - DWDM on dark fiber Muenster CPL equipment: 9 bands of 4x or 8x 10 Gbit/s

Services on SURFnet6 SURFnet6 IP routed services Lightpath services IPv4 IPv6 dynamic static single lightpath unicast multicast unicast multicast OPN SURFnet5 SURFnet6

SURFnet6: IP network implementation Avici SSR SURFnet6 Core Routers External IP connectivity Avici SSR Avici SSR Avici SSR 10 GE 10 GE Nortel OM 5000 Nortel OME 6500 Nortel OM 5000 Nortel OME 6500 SURFnet6 Common Photonic Layer Nortel OM 5000 1 GE Nortel OME 6500 Nortel Passport 8600 10 Gigabit Ethernet Customer 1 Gigabit Ethernet Customer CPE Nortel OME 6500 Nortel OME 6500 10 GE CPE SURFnet infrastructure 1 GE Non-SURFnet

SURFnet6: Light Path Provisioning implementation GLORIAD AMS1 AMS2 Nortel HDXc European Light Paths Nortel transport box Nortel transport box Intercontinental Light Paths .. SURFnet6 Common Photonic Layer Nortel transport box Nortel transport box Customer equipment Customer equipment 10 GE End user End-to-End Light Path SURFnet infrastructure End user Non-SURFnet

Lightpaths A lightpath is an end-to-end transmission path with fixed characteristics Fixed bandwidth  reliable Dedicated, logically separated  secure High-speed (up to 10 Gbit/s) We build them on L1  economical Lightpaths are the building blocks for Optical Private Networks (OPNs) and scientific instruments

Application specific OPNs University dept High Energy Physics Network CERN Healthcare OPN University Research Network University Bio-informatics Network eVLBI Network Telescope site Original slide from Bill St. Arnaud (CANARIE)

LHC high-level network architecture

NetherLight – Lightpath connections to the Netherlands GLORIAD-RU @NIKHEF GE Evolving quickly – have added wavelength to CERN, will add one more Will add a 10G to Barcelona Will add an extra transatlantic 10G Will upgrade the Nordunet link to 10G 622M GLORIAD 2nd quarter 2006

Global Lambda Integrated Facility GLIF was founded at the 3rd Lambda Workshop, August 2003 in Reykjavik GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs, consortia and institutions with lambdas GLIF is a world-scale Lambda-based Laboratory for application and middleware development GLIF vision: To build a new grid-computing paradigm, in which the central architectural element is optical networks, not computers, to support this decade’s most demanding e-science applications.

GLIF Participants

Global Lambda Integrated Facility World Map – August 2005 Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Data compilation by Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago. Earth texture from NASA. www.glif.is

Thank you http://www.surfnet.nl/ http://www.gigaport.nl/ http://www.glif.is/ http://www.netherlight.net/