Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, 2001 Partnering for Success MAX – Qwest Alliance Builds a High Performance Network in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area Tony Conto, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Scott MacCloy, Qwest Communications, Inc

Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, Brief Background & History Founding consortium: Georgetown U., George Washington U., U. of Maryland, Virginia Tech 1999 had an OC-3 circuit to carry traffic to Abilene Mission: to deploy a high performance network to enable the research and education missions of MAX participants Build partnerships with the commercial sector to further the development of MAX

Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, Partnerships Extend GigaPoP Infrastructure Partnership with QwestLink to provide dark fiber ring within the Washington beltway Connects Qwest PoP in DC to GWU, UMCP (MD) and ISI- East (VA) Developing commodity offering for MAX membership Partnerships with Juniper and LuxN to populate the network nodes with M160 routers and WDM switches Partnerships with Fibergate to provide some participant dark fiber connections to MAX Co-location with: Qwest, Yipes, ATT, Verizon,

Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, Qwest Collaboration Cooperative in working within the budget constraints of the MAX Supported Internet2 from its beginnings Understands the importance of corporate support for the educational infrastructure Support of educational initiative integrates with the Qwest business model

Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, Partnership Success MAX evolved into a cohesive group of universities, federal research labs, and non- profit institutions focused on the common goal of building one of the most advanced regional networks in the nation Partners make connection options and networking equipment available to members Partnership with Qwest makes available a variety of additional services to its members

MAX Network Overview BALT (UMB) CLPK (UMCP) ARLG OC48/WDM OC48/fiber (pending) USM ETC KKI UMCP UMBC GWU GT NLM NIH GSFC NSF UCAID SURA NOAA ARLG ISI East NCSA ACCESS DCNE (Qwest) DCGW (GWU) RSTN (tbd) OC3 NGIX Abilene

OADM Target Core Optical Network WDST OC3c POS OC48c POS OC192c POS (future) OC48c POS Qwest ISP Abilene Router ISIE GWU QWST UMCP NGIX ATM OC48c POS (Pending)

Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, MAX Focus Focus has been on getting the network operational Emphasis now is to promote and enable applications that will push the limits of the network’s capacity Currently involved in muticast applications with several participants IPv6 will be implemented between Fujitsu labs of America with universities in Japan

Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Abilene Network Virginia ISP National/Inter-national Peering Networks Regional Network Participants Institutional Participants ATDNet VBNS NGIX-East DREN NISNNREN ESNet MAX Regional Infrastructure Supernet National Library of Medicine National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Science Foundation Southeastern Universities Research Association University Consortium for Advanced Internet Development University of Maryland University of Maryland, Baltimore County University System of Maryland U.S. Geological Survey The Catholic University of of America George Washington University Georgetown University Howard Hughes Medical Institute Kennedy Krieger Institute NASA/Emerging Technologies Center NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center National Consortium for Supercomputer Applications/ACCESS National Institutes of Health net.work.Maryland