1. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester SuperJANET Development Network Testbed – Cisco GSR 12416 SuperJANET4 C-PoP – Cisco GSR 12016 10 Gbit/s 2.5 Gbit/s SuperJANET4 Warrington C-PoPLeeds C-PoP London C-PoP Reading C-PoP Testbed to production link Gigabit Ethernet RAL Man Network links D-PoP to Sites UCL

2. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Test PC Load PC Test PC Load PC Equipment for the External / Edge Domains MPLS Edge Router OSR Need to collapse ? 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS 3 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade 2.5 Gbit POS SJDN Core MPLS Backbone Router 12416 10 Gbit POS 2.5 Gbit POS Out of Band Access Serial / 100Mbit Local site Ethernet Classify packets QoS Difserv QoS – WRED MPLS Generate MPLS frames MPLS Multi-loop

3. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Test PC Load PC Test PC Load PC Equipment for the External / Edge Domains Difserve router OR MPLS Edge Router ?? OSR Need to collapse ? 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS 3 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade 2.5 Gbit POS SJDN Core MPLS Backbone Router 12416 10 Gbit POS 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking ?? 2.5 Gbit POS MPLS Backbone Router OSR 100 Mbit ?? IP

4. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Hardware & Software Tools High Bandwidth High Throughput Protocol Investigations (mainly) Optical splitter or opto-electrical tap opto-electrical tap constructed for logic analyser Software use of : tcpdump tcptrace Web100 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking Test PC 2.5 Gbit POS Monitor PC NIC

5. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Some Costings (1) uPC 850 -1130 –SuperMicro 370DLE630 –64 bit PCI @ 67 MHz ServerWorks Chipset –1 GHz PIII 256M RAM 20 GB HDD –Alteon / Netgear Gigabit NIC220 –SysKonnect Gigabit NIC500 ? uKit at PoP2050 –Keyboard mouse monitor + switch540 –Servertech serial access + power1500 –GigE cable link to C-PoP10 u3PC + Kit at PoP5350 uKit at Site640 –Keyboard mouse monitor + switch540 –Ethernet switch to local ethernet100 u4PC + Kit at Site5040 uProtocol Test Kit (1 site)1920 –Optical splitter600 –PC630 –Two Netgear NICs440 –Logic analyser Tap250 uTotal33,170

6. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Some Costings (2) uCisco OSR based on 6500 ~Jul 01 List Prices ex VAT uMan and UCL will use Cisco, RAL have Nortel - ?

7. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Some Costings (2 Excel) uCisco OSR based on 6500 ~Jul 01 List Prices ex VAT

8. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Latency Tests with 64-bit PCI uAlteon Gigabit NIC uSuperMicro 370DLE –ServerWorks III LE Chipset –64 bit PCI @ 33 MHz uRequest – Response uTransfer rates: observe expect us/B 32+32 bit 0.0265 0.0232 -> 108Mbyte/s 32+64 bit 0.0209 0.0211 64+64 bit 0.0149 0.0156 64 byte Request 1400 byte Response

9. MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Throughput Tests with 64-bit PCI uRAW Stream uNot using IP stack uVary time between packets u1.6 factor improvement over 32-32 bit transfers