1. FNAL Site Report Phil DeMar Summer 2013 ESCC meeting LBL July 15, 2013

2. FNAL Mobility Support Profile Site mobile device and/or BYOD policies:  No restrictions other than mandatory device registration  Great for users…  But tends to foster ad hoc planning for mobility support Current/planned WLAN capabilities for mobile devices:  Fairly ubiquitous WLAN support  AP density generally fair to not-so-good  Multi-year (~3) site-wide WLAN upgrade under way Long term planning initiatives for better mobility support:  Strategic vision is user support based on wireless  But this isn’t firmed up into a roadmap yet Roadmap likely based on outcome of current WLAN upgrades

3. Modifying our Site Network Architecture (I) Last winter – completed 5yr network planning document  Driven by 5 yr enterprise IT budget planning process  Primarily looking for perturbations in annual network budget: Also forcing ourselves to quantify strategic directions Most recent step – document our network architecture:  Ended up modifying it… Modularity, not hierarchy, is the governing attribute:  Modules defined by their requirements: Security Performance Resiliency Mobility Configurability

4. Modifying our Site Network Architecture (II) 3 basic modules:  Data Center  General Campus  Perimeter Custom modules as needed “Site Interconnect” is a function, not a module…

5. Upgrading our Perimeter for 100GE Drafting RFP to upgrade our perimeter to 100GE platforms:  Will procure two platforms this CY  One with 100GE Technical specs present some challenges:  400GE-capability?  VRF, OpenFlow, SDN?  What the is a full routing table? Aligning our vision with ESnet’s is the bigger uncertainty:  What’s the ESnet roadmap for resiliency & 100GE support?

6. FNAL Network R&D Test Environment WAN testing activities: Working on 100GE path to U-Florida for CMS throughput testing Expect to be initiating similar effort with UCSB this fall Our 100GE test environment:  Using CRS-3s (on loan) for now  Connects to ESnet 100GE wave  Test systems: Two 40GE-connected hosts ~12 10GE-connected hosts  Evaluating 10G-BT

7. FNAL Wireless Refresh (I) WLAN pilot upgrade conducted as RFP:  802.11n-based; 802.11ac not considered ready yet  Short term goal - improve office quality of existing WLAN service  Longer term vision - eliminate copper in offices RFP = replace existing WLAN service in one building (FCC)  ~140 users; mixture of offices, computer rms, & conference rms Vendors surveyed & designed their AP configurations  FNAL staff deployed APs per vendor specifications Toggled between vendor deployments for ~90 days  PoE made this easy to do…  Vendors got to tweak configurations  Technical analysis = active measurements & user feedback

8. FNAL Wireless Refresh (II) Two vendors responded One proposed maximum throughput:  Small cell sizes & higher density w/ APs The other focused on lowest cost solution:  Minimizing number of APs High-density solution vendor awarded contract  23 AP configuration replaced previous 12 AP configuration  Order placed for additional 146 APs to cover highrise building But we’ll need to do our own surveying & placement

9. Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) Partnership between State of Illinois & DOE Facility for research, development, & industrialization of particle accelerator technology Office & technical space for Lab, university, & industry collaboration…  42,000 sq ft  ~140 offices  Mix of long term, short term, & transient occupants Private industry will want to protect their intellectual property (IP)

10. Networking for IARC Within IARC:  Private VLANs, if a vendor wants one  Common VLAN (Starbucks), if they don’t  WLAN = Guest-only (for now…) Sorry, no vendor APs… WAN gets tricky (or expensive)  Private ISP connections available, but expensive 100Mb/s = ~$1k/month 1Gb/s = ~9k/month  Would like to leverage our ESnet bandwidth But AUP aspects are ‘unclear’