Damir Pobrić, Sr. Network Engineer update Joint Techs Workshop Minneapolis, MN – 12 February 2007

CANARIE Canada’s Advanced Networking Organization Legal status: Not-for-profit, public-private partnership Incorporated member Board: half industry, half institutional Institutional Bd. members include 3 VPRs, 1 Dean and 1 CIO Mandate:Core is a blend of R&E network management and next-generation internet project From also managed numerous application development programs Funding: Funded by the Federal Government Current round of funding for CAnet 4 was $126 million, incl. interest Period covered: April 1, March 31, 2007 CANARIE funding renewal proposal submitted to Government: outlook is good however no announcements yet Fees: No user fees for domestic users $2,500 annual institutional membership fees in CANARIE Inc. Marginal cost recovery charges to international users

CAnet 4 infrastructure >infrastructure, rather than a network >designed to support many independent IP networks/platforms and enable Users to manipulate network elements through software abstraction >consists of OC-192 wavelengths leased from carriers and terminated on CANARIE SONET switches >hybrid service offering; majority of capacity for LightPaths >2 new ROADM network projects w/ objectives: – meet continuing growing 10G demand of large-scale e-science – enable deployment of 10G to the desktop through partnership and DWDM interconnect with ORANs and their members in BC, Alberta, Ontario and Québec – co-management of the optical infrastructure

Eastern ROADM Networks >2000+ km of fibers, 34 active sites – 20Y IRU from Level3 (through FiberCo) – 14Y IRU from TELUS >Chicago – Windsor/Detroit – Toronto – Ottawa – Montréal – Boston – New York >In partnership with ORANO – Windsor / Detroit – Ottawa portion will be co-managed >Will interconnect with new CANARIE-funded RISQ ROADM network >Interconnection with Internet2 Meriton ROADM network in Detroit and sharing of racks between Ann Arbour and Chicago

Eastern ROADM

Western ROADM >1500 km of fibers, 22 sites – 12Y IRU from Bell Canada >Seattle – Victoria – Vancouver – Kamloops – Kelowna – Calgary >In partnership with BCNET and NETERA – to be co-managed

Western ROADM

ROADM site detail

Nortel CPL/eROADM >72 lambda (C-band 50 GHz) DWDM transport platform >supports 10 GbE/OC-192; will support 40G without hardware overhaul >Self-optimizing electronic dispersion compensation >automatic dynamic power balancing >network planning, engineering, configuration and deployment are simplified and automated >Modular architecture that scales incrementally >Management on a per wavelength granularity

What is UCLP? >CANARIE program, 3 development proposals funded: CRC-Inocybe-i2CAT-Ud'O, UQAM-Ud'O, Solana Networks >User Controlled LightPaths – a network virtualization and management tool built using web services. >Resources can be grouped and given to dedicated individuals or organizations creating Articulated Private Networks (APN). >Via the service interface, APN owner can establish cross- connections, change bandwidth or lease their resources. >Uses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and so network can be integrated with other web service applications

UCLPv2 GUI

UCLP APN manager

CRC-i2CAT-Inocybe-UofO

CAnet 4 services >offerings: layer 1, layer 3, and UCLP – L1: sub-rate and 1 GbE, and 10GbE LightPaths (over OC-12c, OC-24c, and OC-192c) to Users – L3: 1 GbE connections to ORAN Users mainly – UCLP: web service workflow based software provisioning tool which permits Users to provision and re-engineer LightPaths at will, to create and manipulate their own Articulated Private Networks >service policy: best efforts – regular business hour NOC (Ottawa time) – 7/24/365 duty engineer available by pager – 4 hour response from carriers – NBD parts replacement in case of infrastructure failure – is up to the User to design redundancy as required, e.g. obtain 2 diverse LightPaths

CAnet 4 services coming soon >hybrid infrastructure – a mix of ROADM/fibre and carrier OC-192 wavelengths >services – lambda: 10GbE and OC-192 – L1: GbE and 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, and 10GbE over LAN Phy port and VCAT (over one or two diverse paths using VCAT+LCAS) – L3: possible 10GbE router upgrade in ? – UCLP expanded to support private (virtual) L3 routing services >network innovation: – web services of large-scale instruments and any scale sensors – working with Cdn industry to advance adoption of SOA technologies

Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)

international exchange points >GLIF founding participant and GLORIAD partner >GLIF Open LightPath Exchange (GOLE) model – - facilitate international interconnections – - minimize quantity of colo, equipment and cards required – - minimize call blocking probability at optical exchange points >CANARIE: GOLE Operator – in Chicago (StarLight), co-managed with StarLight – in Seattle, co-managed with PNWGP User can call CANARIE, local partner, or use UCLP >CANARIE: GOLE User – CAnet 4 NYC-Amsterdam OC-192 terminates on Internet2 MAN LAN, and SURFnet NetherLight GOLEs

CANARIE’s Direction: Towards the Lambda Grid Some Current Projects >ATLAS Canada – Support of Gridx1 and provision of 10 Gbps lightpath to CERN >Canadian Virtual Observatory – DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment at Herzberg Institute in Victoria. >Neptune Canada – Integrated instruments, databases, visualization >Canadian Light Source – Instruments and lightpaths as grid services >WestGrid – SMP at UofA, Cluster at UBC and Storage at SFU. >Eucalyptus – Carleton U Architectural Collaborative Design >McGill Neurological Brain Scan Database – In partnership with UCSD >CINEGRID – Ryerson U >Environment Canada ECOnet >NRC NRnet II

Thank you! >Additional information: – CANARIE web site – For any CAnet 4 or UCLP related questions CANARIE engineering >Questions?