Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown Principal Investigators, STAR TAP Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren Litvanyi, Andy Schmidt STAR TAP Engineering Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward StarLight Facilities Development and Operations John Jamison Sympathizer and Confidant

STAR TAP and StarLight STAR TAP: 5-year-old operational cross- connect of the world's high-performance Production R&E Networks Mb ATM StarLight: optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting and switching/routing –Production Networks at 1Gb –Experimental Networks at 1Gb, 2.5Gb, and 10Gb –Research Networks at 10Gb Funded by US NSF CISE ANIR, EIA and ACIR infrastructure grants to UIC, UIUC, NU, and IU Enabling and sustaining support by ANL MCS

What is StarLight? Abbott Hall, Northwestern University StarLight is an experimental optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance applications StarLight Assists $32M (FY2002-3) in experimental networks (I-WIRE, TeraGrid, OMNInet, SURFnet, CA*net4, DataTAG)

StarLight Service Description Today StarLight is a Gigabit Ethernet exchange point Policy-free 802.1q VLANs are created between peering partners StarLight benefits connecting networks: –High-speed peering with large MTU –Available collocation space –Planned 10GigE, other switched services –Several US and international networks connected –Multicast support StarLight is focused on the needs of e-Science and supporting Experimental Networks

StarLight is Now Fully Operational StarLight Equipment installed: –Cisco 6509 with lots of GigE ports –Juniper M10 and M5 (with GigE and OC-12 interfaces) –ESnet’s IPv6 Router –Data mining clusters SURFnet’s Cisco GSR &15454 Multiple vendors for GigE, 10GigE, and DWDM

StarLight Network Operations All of the StarLight equipment (except IPv6 routers & AADS NAP) is monitored 24x7x365 by IU's GlobalNOC GlobalNOC provides a 24x7x365 point of contact when trouble arises –

Commercial StarLight SBC/AmeritechQwest/Teleglobe Global Crossing AT&T and AT&T Broadband

StarLight Rack is prepped and waiting for equipment

StarLight/NetherLight Cees de Laat, U StarLight, USA Tom DeFanti, UIC and de NetherLight, The Netherlands

CERN’s Coming to StarLight Caltech/CERN packing slip for cartons. Olivier Martin (CERN), Tim Ward (NU), Richard Hughes-Jones (U Manchester)

US Networks: ESNet (OC-3c soon OC-12c) Abilene (OC-12c) vBNS (OC-12c) Fermilab (OC-3c) Argonne (OC-12c) CANARIE (OC-3c) MREN (layer2) 6TAP Abilene (2xGE) SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c) Argonne (2xGE) Northwestern University (GE) AMPATH (GE) vBNS+ (soon) CERN (OC-12c/48c soon) CA*net4 (2xOC-192 soon) I-WIRE DWDM TRANSPAC (OC-12c) NORDUNET (OC3c) 6TAP MREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE) ESnet (GE) TeraGrid DTFnet (soon) STAR TAP and StarLight Services Description ATM PVC Exchange Service AS IPv4 and IPv6 Transit Service AS IPv4 and IPv6 Transit Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service Carrier-Neutral Co-Location Facility Research Circuit/Lambda Switching Research Circuit/Lambda Switching STAR TAP (AADS NAP) StarLight OC12c NPA/NXX 312/503

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service Carrier-Neutral Co-Location Facility Research Circuit/Lambda Switching Research Circuit/Lambda Switching StarLight 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service Qwest Co-Location Facility Qwest 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service NPA/NXX 312/503 TeraGrid DTFnet ESNet NREN Abilene Extending StarLight Services via Qwest I-WIRE dark fiber: 36 strands Abilene (2xGE) SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c) Argonne (2xGE) Northwestern University (GE) AMPATH (GE) vBNS+ (soon) CERN (OC-12c/48c soon) CA*net4 (2xOC-192 soon) I-WIRE DWDM TRANSPAC (OC-12c) NORDUNET (OC3c) 6TAP MREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE) ESnet (GE) TeraGrid DTFnet (soon)

24-26 September 2002 Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre (WTCW) The Netherlands Grid 2 oo (COMING SOON) The International Virtual Laboratory i Maxine Brown STAR TAP/StarLight co-Principal Investigator Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Coming…..

StarLight Thanks StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: –National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI , ANI , EIA , EIA , and EIA –NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI to the National Computational Science Alliance –State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing –Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership NSF/ANIR, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, and Olivier Martin and Harvey Newman of CERN for global networking leadership; NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN/GTRN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC CA*net4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North American transport

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