National Commodity Peering TransitRail Update October 11, 2006 St. Louis, MO

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Why TransitRail? Commodity traffic is CENIC’s single largest use of bandwidth Regional peering currently saves CENIC roughly $1M per year Other drivers: net neutrality, latest ‘killer apps’ (YouTube, MySpace, Google, etc.)

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California CENIC Peering vs Transit Commodity only - no R&E

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California External Traffic Volume August 20-October 9

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Premise Successful large-scale commodity Peering can... –Decrease commodity costs and result in overall savings –Reduce reliance on commercial vendors –Increase routing efficiency and flexibility

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California TransitRail Is/Will Be... NATIONAL FOOTPRINT –Multiple exchange locations around the US; COMMODITY FOCUSED –Packet-agnostic –Connections at commercial peering exchange points –Unhindered by high bandwidth R&E flows; PEERING –Direct network-to-network bilateral IP Packet exchange ROBUST and RELIABLE –Engineered to serve commodity demands: diverse routes, redundant connections, on-site maintenance, etc.

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California TransitRail Goal Goal: create a network presence and infrastructure that will attract and retain TierOne type peering to the benefit of the R&E community

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California What to Expect TransitRail participants are likely to experience anywhere from a 25% to 60+% reduction in the overall traffic that normally goes over their commodity ISP circuits

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Who CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop are jointly proposing, developing, and implementing the TransitRail facility These groups have significant individual and joint experience with peering facilities and prospective peering partners Partnering with NLR who will provide the underlying network infrastructure as well as the relationship with the participants.

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California TransitRail is NOT… R&E network peering Replacement for local peering Many-to-many peering facility An alternative for 100% of all your commodity transit needs Pacific Wave Profit center for CENIC/PNWGP

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California TransitRail: Phase 0 CENIC and PNWGP sharing subset of peers with FRGP and PSC Using NLR FrameNet (layer 2) infrastructure for transport

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Phase 0 Connectivity * Abovenet * Accretive Networks * Adelphia Cable * AllStream * Akamai * AsiaNetCom * BBC * Blackoak * Bungi * CableCom * China Telecom * Cogent * Cox Cable * DaCom * DSLnet * Earthlink * EBay * Electric Lightwave * Electronics Arts * Epoch * FLAG Telecom * Global Naps * Globix * Google * GT Telecom/360 Networks * Hanaro Telecom * HopOne * Hurricane Electric * IIJ * Inet Main Street * Internet Software Consortium * Japan Telecom * Jupiter Hosting * KDDI * Korea Telecom * Limelight * Maxim * Microsoft Corporation * MySpace * Mzima * nLayer * Nokia * Packet Clearing House * Peer1 Networks * PoweredCom * Primus Telecom * RCN * Reach Networks * ServePath * Shaw Communications * SingTel * Sony Entertainment * Speakeasy * SunRise Telecom * Swisscom-IP+ * TDS Telecom * Time Warner Telecom * Telecom Malaysia * TTNet * UltraDNS * ViaNet * WV Fiber * XMission * XO Communications * Yahoo! * Zocalo

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Phase 0: Aggregate at CENIC

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California What’s Next Peering node builds: LA, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Chicago, Washington DC. Location selection criteria: –reasonable proximity, and access, to an NLR POP; –dispersed east-west locations; –highest peering potential based on fiscal investment for that location

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Infrastructure Equipment (CISCO 7600s) 10GE links (NLR WaveNet), loops to exchange points New autonomous system Restrictive peering policy to maximize return

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Seattle (Westin Bldg) Sunnyvale Los Angeles (Equinix LAP) DC Chicago PAIX 1 Wilshire Equinix LAX Equinix Ashburn Equinix Phase1 Trial (proposed)

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Routing Policies What TransitRail requires of its peers –3-5 locations throughout US –Large amount of traffic exchanged per peer –Reliable Operations

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Routing Policies What TransitRail requires of its peering participants –Structured local preference –Maintained IRR object –Willingness to tune announcements to L3/Wiltel/C&W (to attain highest amount of usage)

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Peering is not “free” CENIC estimates our peering cost $5-$6/Mbps NTR is 10G network dedicated to commodity peering NTR cost estimates: –Startup: $1M –Annual: $1.7M

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California Getting Connected Phase 0 –Proof of concept only –Additional participation possible through “Letter of Intent” Phase 1 –Working with NLR on funding –Looking for interested participants willing to sign non-binding “Letter of Intent”

Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in California