Lighting the Next-Generation Network Across Texas presented at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Austin, Texas Thursday February 17, 2005 Jim Williams

LEARN Mission  LEARN is a non-profit collaboration of Texas higher education institutions that supports their research, education, health care, and public service missions through the innovative development, operation and utilization of advanced statewide networking, access to global resources, and related services.

LEARN Vision  To be the premier organization providing network services for research, education, health care and economic development through advanced communication services throughout Texas. LEARN will be a national model for organizations that serve institutions of higher education. We will provide leadership in creating global networking initiatives.

A brief history

The ARPA Network

ARPANET Logical Map, 1977

ARPANET Logical Map, 1980

NSFNET

NSFNET – in color !

Post NSFNET – the vBNS + the commodity Internet

Research and Development Commercialization Prototype Privatization Internet Development Spiral The Internet Internet2 Source: Ivan Moura Campos NSFNET ARPANET Commodity Internet + vBNS Internet2

Research and Development Commercialization Prototypes Privatization Internet Development Spiral The Internet NLR Source: Ivan Moura Campos Internet2 NLR

Initial NLR Footprint & Layer 1 Topology PIT POR FRE RAL WAL NAS PHO OLG ATL CHI CLE KAN OGD SAC BOS NYC WDC STR DAL DEN LAX SVL SEA SDG JAC

Research and Development Commercialization Prototypes Privatization Internet Development Spiral The Internet NLR Source: Ivan Moura Campos Internet2 NLR

Proposed LEARN connections

Proposed LEARN Network Topology LEARN Triangle Lambda/Fiber NLR/ SURA Texas Optical Options

On the alignment of planets (the enablers)  Dark fiber availability  DWDM Technology  The NLR “carrot”  The Grid  Unprecedented Texas collaboration

Dark fiber availability (from overinvestment)

Wave division multiplexing?

The Harmonic Telegraph

On the convergence of great ideas, enormous blunders and able people. In that order.

Harmonic telegraph >>> WDM

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

Big has limits

An early example of grid computing

Current grid resources in Texas High performance computing + High performance networking

LHC Data Grid Hierarchy Tier 1 Tier2 Center Online System CERN Center PBs of Disk; Tape Robot FNAL Center IN2P3 Center INFN Center RAL Center Institute Workstations ~ MBytes/sec ~10 Gbps 1 to 10 Gbps Tens of Petabytes by An Exabyte ~5-7 Years later. Physics data cache ~PByte/sec Gbps Tier2 Center ~1-10 Gbps Tier 0 +1 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier2 Center Tier 2 Experiment CERN/Outside Resource Ratio ~1:2 Tier0/(  Tier1)/(  Tier2) ~1:1:1 H. Newman National Science Foundation selects UTA, Boston Univ., Harvard for supercollider network computing site The University of Texas at Arlington has been selected from a field of proposals that included the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and the University of Michigan to receive a $3 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant is one of three given by the NSF to create giant computer clusters which form an international grid connected to a new supercollider built by a consortium of 34 nations in Geneva, Switzerland. UT-Arlington Professor of Physics Kaushik De said adding the computing grid network to the supercollider will enable physicists to take the next important step in the evolution of the Internet and World Wide Web computing.Physics

Unprecedented Texas Collaboration  Baylor University  Baylor College of Medicine  Lamar University  Northeast Texas Consortium (NETnet)  Prairie View A&M University  Rice University  Sam Houston State University  Southern Methodist University  Stephen F. Austin State University  Texas A&M University  Texas A&M University System  Texas A&M University System Health Science Center  Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi  Texas Association of Community Colleges  Texas Christian University  Texas State University System-San Marcos  Texas Tech University  Texas Tech University System  University of Houston System  University of North Texas Health Science Center  University of North Texas system  University of Texas Arlington  University of Texas Austin  University of Texas Dallas  University of Texas El Paso  University of Texas Health Science Center Houston  University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio  University of Texas Health Science Center Tyler  University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center  University of Texas Medical Branch  University of Texas San Antonio  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center  University of Texas System

Bandwidth demand >>>> $/bit Leased circuits “owned” fiber Changing the “economic architecture”

Bandwidth demand >>>> Leased circuits “owned” fiber TCO Changing the “economic architecture”

100Mbps Ethernet 3.7Mbps MPEG- 2 CBR VHS Quality Video Stream 20Mbps MPEG-2 CBR HDTV Quality Video Stream 64Kbps Phone Line 128Kbps ISDN 600Kbps DSL 3Mbps DSL 1.544Mbps T1 10Mbps Ethernet Work at home Educational & Medical Applications By Jonathan Moore Formerly GC PUD, WA Bandwidth Comparisons

Transport Grid DIR ? Health Science Intranet ? Internet2 K-20 Intranet ? How do we do that? Transport Internet service Applications you use , Web, etc. Transport

Some additional motivators Source: OECD Source: OECD 2003 United States: Diffusion of consumer goods and communications services (5 % onwards) Total Broadband Subscribers per 100 Inhabitants

Some additional motivators Oct ‘04

In summary, LEARN will  Will connect to NLR  Will connect to TTVN, THENet, NetNet, NTGP, SETGP...  Can be used to aggregate  Internet2 connections  Commodity Internet connections  Will contain costs and control (we own it)  Will provide for future capacity  Will enhance Texas competitiveness  Will maintain human networks

Current Status  Expect the “triangle” up by end of 2Q05  Initial LEARN deployment 4Q05  Expect contracts for fiber completed within days  Expect $7.2 M from the State of Texas momentarily

Thanks for your attention for further information

Darn, I almost forgot  You are not all from Austin  Heck, some of you are not even yet Texans  Life is short  This IS the LIVE MUSIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD  And we also have GREAT FOOD!!!!

Jim’s Picks

Jim’s picks for Thursday  6pm Threadgill’s World Headquarters  301 West Riverside Drive

Jim’s picks for Thursday  6pm Threadgill’s World Headquarters  301 West Riverside Drive  7pm Jo’s  1300 South Congress

Jim’s picks for Thursday 66pm Threadgill’s World Headquarters 3301 West Riverside Drive 77pm get Jo’s 11300 South Congress 88pm Saxon Pub - Carolyn Wonderland 11320 South Lamar

 6pm Threadgill’s World Headquarters  301 West Riverside Drive  7pm get Jo’s  1300 South Congress  8pm Saxon Pub - Carolyn Wonderland  1320 South Lamar  Then for some hot new artists – Momo’s  618 West 6th Street Upstairs Above Katz's

 Rachel Loy  Ryan DeSiato  Stephen Clarke

Jim’s picks for Thursday  6pm Threadgill’s World Headquarters  301 West Riverside Drive  7pm Jo’s  1300 South Congress  8pm Saxon Pub - Carolyn Wonderland  1320 South Lamar  Then for some hot new artists – Momo’s  618 West 6th Street Upstairs Above Katz's  If ya gotta dance – Broken Spoke until 1am  3201 South Lamar

Broken Spoke Best Honky-Tonk in Texas The venerable Broken Spoke has always reigned supreme as Austin's country music palace. When you need your Lone Star cold, lots of sawdust on the floor, and the ghost of Ernest Tubb on your shoulder, the Spoke is it. And don't fuss about getting any whiskey dings on your car. That's part of the charm. Tonight Chapparal with Jeff Hughes

Have fun y’all

And thanks again on behalf of  Baylor University  Baylor College of Medicine  Lamar University  Northeast Texas Consortium (NETnet)  Prairie View A&M University  Rice University  Sam Houston State University  Southern Methodist University  Stephen F. Austin State University  Texas A&M University  Texas A&M University System  Texas A&M University System Health Science Center  Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi  Texas Association of Community Colleges  Texas Christian University  Texas State University System-San Marcos  Texas Tech University  Texas Tech University System  University of Houston System  University of North Texas Health Science Center  University of North Texas system  University of Texas Arlington  University of Texas Austin  University of Texas Dallas  University of Texas El Paso  University of Texas Health Science Center Houston  University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio  University of Texas Health Science Center Tyler  University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center  University of Texas Medical Branch  University of Texas San Antonio  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center  University of Texas System