1. The SURFnet Project Bram Peeters, Manager Network Services
ICFA Workshop, Cracow, Poland
10th October 2006
Overview:
- the Project and drivers
Technical – how does it fit together

2. History of SURFnet infrastructure
Exponential growth

3. Paradigm shift
SURFnet4 project
GigaPort
DWDM
Lambdas
POS
1995
Next Generation
2003
1999
SURFnet4 network
SURFnet5 network
ATM
2008
SURFnet6 network
Next generation is not a simple extrapolation of current networks
Last major shift in project has been acquiring our own fiber  full control over infrastructure
Need to shift with each generation

4. GigaPort project overview
Research on
networks
Networks
for
research
dependent
advanced
GigaPort
Networks for Research realises a hybrid optical and packet switching network in partnership with the Industry Partner
Research on Networks is geared towards SURFnet6
A number of large projects in different application areas are enabled to use the new possibilities of SURFnet6

5. Timelines SURFnet6
Timelines  now in full operation

6. SURFnet’s Partners: Industry partner builds the network
Leader of the consortium
Optical equipment
Ethernet equipment
Network management equipment
Routing equipment
Installation services
Maintenance services

7. SURFnet’s Partners: NOC Alliance manages the network
Leader of NOC Alliance
Provides 7x24 hrs capability
Member of NOC Alliance
Expert group
First point of contact for all trouble 7x24 hrs
SURFnet Helpdesk:

8. Status SURFnet6 Network ready at end of 2005,
carrying all SURFnet traffic mid December 2005
SURFnet6 NOC operational
Transition finalized mid June 2006:
180 organizations
370 ports
External connections
SURFnet5 decommissioned and auctioned last summer
External connections: AMS-IX, Geant, rest-of-world

9. SURFnet6 overview
The first nation-wide hybrid optical and packet switching infrastructure
Based on km of SURFnet-owned managed dark fiber, all the way to the customers premises
SURFnet6 delivers all SURFnet5 services (native IPv4 and IPv6) plus Lightpath Provisioning:
Over a single transmission infrastructure
Managed via a single control plane
Hence, in an economically sound way

10. SURFnet6 - DWDM on dark fiber
Muenster
CPL equipment: 9 bands of 4x or 8x 10 Gbit/s

11. Services on SURFnet6 SURFnet6 IP routed services Lightpath services
IPv4
IPv6
dynamic
static
single
lightpath
unicast
multicast
unicast
multicast
OPN
SURFnet5
SURFnet6

12. SURFnet6: IP network implementation
Avici
SSR
SURFnet6
Core Routers
External IP
connectivity
Avici
SSR
Avici
SSR
Avici
SSR
10 GE
10 GE
Nortel
OM 5000
Nortel
OME
6500
Nortel
OM 5000
Nortel
OME
6500
SURFnet6
Common Photonic Layer
Nortel
OM 5000
1 GE
Nortel
OME
6500
Nortel
Passport
8600
10 Gigabit
Ethernet
Customer
1 Gigabit
Ethernet
Customer
CPE
Nortel
OME
6500
Nortel
OME
6500
10 GE
CPE
SURFnet infrastructure
1 GE
Non-SURFnet

13. SURFnet6: Light Path Provisioning implementation
GLORIAD
AMS1
AMS2
Nortel
HDXc
European
Light Paths
Nortel
transport
box
Nortel
transport
box
Intercontinental
Light Paths ..
SURFnet6
Common Photonic Layer
Nortel
transport
box
Nortel
transport
box
Customer
equipment
Customer
equipment
10 GE
End user
End-to-End Light Path
SURFnet infrastructure
End user
Non-SURFnet

14. Lightpaths
A lightpath is an end-to-end transmission path with fixed characteristics
Fixed bandwidth  reliable
Dedicated, logically separated  secure
High-speed (up to 10 Gbit/s)
We build them on L1  economical
Lightpaths are the building blocks for Optical Private Networks (OPNs) and scientific instruments

15. Application specific OPNs
University dept
High Energy
Physics Network
CERN
Healthcare
OPN
University
Research Network
University
Bio-informatics
Network
eVLBI
Network
Telescope
site
Original slide from Bill St. Arnaud (CANARIE)

16. LHC high-level network architecture

17. NetherLight – Lightpath connections to the Netherlands GE
Evolving quickly
– have added wavelength to CERN, will add one more
Will add a 10G to Barcelona
Will add an extra transatlantic 10G
Will upgrade the Nordunet link to 10G
622M GLORIAD
2nd quarter 2006

18. Global Lambda Integrated Facility
GLIF was founded at the 3rd Lambda Workshop, August 2003 in Reykjavik
GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs, consortia and institutions with lambdas
GLIF is a world-scale Lambda-based Laboratory for application and middleware development
GLIF vision:
To build a new grid-computing paradigm, in which the central architectural element is optical networks, not computers, to support this decade’s most demanding e-science applications.

19. GLIF Participants

20. Global Lambda Integrated Facility World Map – August 2005
Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Data compilation by Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago. Earth texture from NASA.

22. Thank you http://www.surfnet.nl/ http://www.gigaport.nl/