Facilities Based Networking Corporation for Education Networking Initiatives in California (CENIC)
Charter Associates California Institute of Technlogy California State University Stanford University University of California University of Southern California
Mission Statement Facilitate and Coordinate the: Development,Deployment,Operations of a set of seamless and robust advanced network services. CENIC’s networks support advanced applications designed to enhance California’s leadership in research and education.
CalREN-DC Digital California IP based network: OC-48 Serves 140 Higher Ed institutions, 8,000+ Elementary, Secondary and High Schools 8.0 million+ student, faculty & staff users Internet2 connectivity and commodity ISP services
CalREN-HPR High Performance Research IP based network, 10Gb Ethernet 50+ Research institutions, National Laboratories and San Diego Super Computing Center California component of Internet2 with 10G and OC-12 connections Serves hundreds of researchers
CalREN-XD Experimental/Development Network 10Gb wavelengths (OC-192c or 10G LANPHY) and dark fiber Point-Point, Point-MultiPoint 1G Ethernet possible Serves network researchers in California Research institutions Four UC Institutes, USC/ISI, Stanford and CalTech
CalREN Optical Footprint
Northern California
Southern California
National Light Rail Dark Fiber National footprint Serves very high-end Experimental and Research Applications GB Wavelengths initially Partnership
NLR “Service Offerings” Point-to-Point wave (OC-192c or 10GE) No wave can interfere with othersNo wave can interfere with others Shared IP service Must be able to tolerate outagesMust be able to tolerate outages Supports experimental codeSupports experimental code Switched Ethernet service Delivered as gigabit EthernetDelivered as gigabit Ethernet Point-to-point or point-to-multipointPoint-to-point or point-to-multipoint
NLR Footprint and Layer 1 (15808s) Topology Terminal, Regen or OADM site (OpAmp sites not shown) Fiber route PIT POR FRE RAL WAL NAS PHO OLG ATL CHI CLE KAN OGD SAC BOS NYC WDC STR DAL DEN LAX SVL SEA SDG
Seattle Denver San Diego Sunnyvale Los Angeles Cleveland Pittsburgh New York City Boston DallasRaleigh Washington DC 10 Gig E (OC192) National Light Rail Lambda & Route Map Walnut Olga Stratford KansasOgden Sacramento Portland Pheonix Nashville LH System ELH System REGEN OADM 2 TERMINAL Fresno Salt Lake City 2 StarLight 6 Metro 10 Gig E OC Metro System Chicago Atlanta Boise 2
NLR POP Architecture Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM Gig E 10 Gig E or OC192 NLR
Calren/DC/HPR/NLR PoP Architecture Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM Gig E 10 Gig E or OC192 CalRen DC HPR NLR Campus or Metro Interconnect One of above options used for Each campus CalREN/DC HPR NLR