Abilene Update Rick Summerhill Director, Network Research, Architecture, and Technologies Joint-Techs Meeting Salt Lake City, UT 30 July 2019

Welcome Welcome to Abilene, Steve Cotter Network Services Director FiberCo MAN LAN 7/30/2019

Abilene Partnerships Indiana University Juniper Networks Nortel Networks Qwest Communications ITECs Internet2 7/30/2019

Abilene Backbone 7/30/2019

Abilene Participants February 2005 IP-over-DWDM (OC-192c) 42 (44) direct connections (OC-3c  10 GigE) 3 (2) 10 GigE connections 6 (6) OC-48c (2 more in the near future) 3 (2) GigE connection 25 (23) connections at OC-12c (13) or higher Cost recovery model reduced to encourage upgrades 233 (228) participants – research universities & labs All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico U.S. Census Bureau and World Bank most recent additions; Library of Congress coming soon! Expanded access 119 (106) sponsored participants 34 (33) state education networks (#): status at last Joint-Techs (Columbus, 07/2004) 7/30/2019

Abilene Participation - Upgrades Current status Connectors recently completed University of Oregon North Texas GigaPoP Intermountain GigaPoP (here at Utah) SoX Near future upgrades New Mexico GigaPoP (OC-48) MAGP (OC-48) Upgrade web page http://abilene.internet2.edu/community/connectors/upgrade.html 7/30/2019

Abilene International Peering Last updated: January 2005 Abilene International Peering 7/30/2019

Abilene Federal/Research Peering Last updated: January 2005 Abilene Federal/Research Peering

Abilene Peering Connectivity to Exchange Points Peering with ESnet MANLAN – 10 GigE PacWave - Seattle – 10 GigE PacWave - LA – 10 GigE Starlight – 2 x 10 GigE NGIX East – 10 GigE NGIX West – 1 GigE PAIX in Palo Alto - IPv6 and Multicast Peerings Peering with ESnet Sunnyvale, Chicago, Atlanta – OC-48 New York - 10 GigE (through MAN LAN) 7/30/2019

Abilene Focus Areas – 2005 IPv6 and Multicast Roughly 2/3 of the connectors are IPv6 enabled Roughly 1/2 of the peers are IPv6 enabled Support for high-throughput flows (multi-Gbps) Collaboration with End-to-End Performance Initiative Ensuring that large flows are the standard across the Internet2 infrastructure Security Collaboration with REN-ISAC Expanded efforts in security Abilene Observatory – Supporting Network Research and an Open Measurement Platform Provisioning dedicated capabilities (with the HOPI project) Providing experimental services on top of production network Recent NSF Proposals for network research 7/30/2019

Abilene Performance Performance 7.2 Gbps flows across Abilene Recent tests from Caltech to CERN Le Tour de Abilene Worst Ten Lists – Typical day 966.1 Mbps IPv4 TCP 964.5 Mbps IPv6 TCP MPLS L2VPN experiments with prioritized service have shown excellent performance on tunnels and with little effect on normal traffic 7/30/2019

Dedicated Capabilities MPLS L2VPNs across Abilene Experiments – Internet2, CANARIE, GEANT, StarLight, SurfNet – 1 GigE path across variety of different infrastructures ITECs – dedicated MPLS L2VPN HOPI Packet and Circuit Switched architecture testbed More about HOPI tomorrow Support for Computer Science Research Community Recent NSF proposals to enhance PlanetLab Connectivity 7/30/2019

Next Generation Time-line By January of 2006 - define architecture By April 2006 - Selection of transport By July 2006 - Selection of equipment By October 2007 - Completion Current MoU with Qwest ends 10/2007 7/30/2019

More information http://abilene.internet2.edu http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory Additional pointers off this page http://hopi.internet2.edu abilene@internet2.edu hopi@internet2.edu 7/30/2019

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