Presentation to EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Anthony Conto, Ph.D. Executive Director, MAX Copyright Anthony Conto, This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author. Advanced Networking Initiatives in the Mid-Atlantic Region

MAX MISSION To bring cost-attractive, high performance, end-to-end connectivity to the mid-Atlantic region to enable the missions of its constituent institutions

3 Brief Background & History Founding consortium: Georgetown U., George Washington U., U. of Maryland, Virginia Tech 1999 had OC-3 to carry traffic to Abilene Building partnerships with commercial sector Evolved into a cohesive group of universities, federal research labs, and commercial and non-profit institutions focused on the common goal of building the most advanced regional network in the nation Currently operating an OC-48 network in the DC metro area with extensions into the Baltimore area.

4 Advanced Networking Goals of MAX Ensure that researchers have access to the best networking infrastructure possible Fast, advanced services from the desktop to the backbone Advanced services to whatever backbones evolve Ensure that Greater Baltimore-Washington-Virginia region is ‘visible’ on the national networking scene to be sure that the infrastructure evolves to meet future needs Leverage the intellectual capital in the MD-DC-VA region by providing high speed infrastructure accessible to many sizes and types of organizations

5 MAX game plan Basic infrastructure allows customized evolution to new technologies. Strategy “Big picture” cooperative planning among institutions to incrementally create robust infrastructure. Fiber/facilities construction where/when appropriate Multi-institutional engineering teams Broad based applications’ technologies/services Commercial partnerships to help develop new technologies and new service models. Leverage state and municipal infrastructure programs. Inter-regional peering and/or transit agreements

6 Working Groups Management Advise on issues related to the management and offerings of MAX Commodity Transport Providing Engineering Assistance Engineering Advise on engineering related issues IP Architecture and Optical Transport Network Operations Commodity Transport IPv6, QoS, and Applications development and deployment Assessments and recommendations presented to Board of Founders for approval

7 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,

8 GigaPoP Peerings Extend regional resources to the consortium National resources accessed at high bandwidth NIH, NLM, NASA, NSF, Smithsonian--(soon) National Network Peerings Abilene, vBNS, ESnet, Supernet (soon), ATDnet(soon), CA*NET3, STAR TAP, STAR LIGHT, APAN NGIX

9 Where MAX connectivity is today OC48 to Abilene OC12 connection by NASA/GSFC OC3/Gigabit Ethernet by most participants DS3 by some participants Connectivity into Baltimore region Exploring dark fiber options in northern Virginia

10 Current Connectors University of Maryland Georgetown University George Washington University U of M, Baltimore County NASA / GSFC NSF NIH NLM Howard Hughes Med. Institute NOAA U.S. Geological Survey Catholic University Univ. System of Maryland SURA Kennedy Krieger Institute NASA / ETC UCAID NCSA / ACCESS Fujitsu Labs of America

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

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

13 Abilene Map New Abilene Map from Dan

14 The Quilt Network

15 MAX networking efforts are directed toward extending the services & performance of the national high performance backbones into the region and to leverage the resources of MAX for the good of all participants.