1. MAN LAN Update
Rick Summerhill
Associate Director, Backbone Network Infrastructure, Internet2
Internet2 Sprint Member Meeting
Arlington, VA
19 April, 2004
This is a general overview presentation about Internet2. Internet2 is a consortium, led by US universities, which is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today’s Internet in its infancy.

2. MAN LAN Exchange Point
MAN LAN (the Manhattan Landing) is a high performance exchange point to facilitate peering between US and International Research and Education Networks
MAN LAN was formed as a partnership with NYSERnet, the New York State Education & Research Network
Located in 32 Avenue of the Americas in New York City
Collocated in the NYSERnet facility adjacent to the fiber meet me room – cross-connects simple to facilitate
Fiber cross-connect to Abilene router in same building
Other carriers have presence in 32 AoA
NYSERnet has some collocation space available
Has been in operation since summer of 2003
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3. MAN LAN Services MAN LAN is primarily a layer2 exchange point
Cisco 6509 with 1 and 10 GigE interfaces
Short, medium, and long haul optics
Recently underwent a major upgrade to insure reliability
Redundant supervisor modules (latest versions)
Redundant interfaces
Point to point VLANS between peers
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4. MAN LAN Connectors MAN LAN Connectors 10 GigE 1 GigE SINET Abilene
NYSERnet (near future, current 1 GigE)
ESnet (near future)
1 GigE
CA*net (2 x 1 GigE)
GEANT (2 x 1 GigE)
HEANET
Qatar
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5. MAN LAN Experimental Facility
Addition of layer1 experimental facility in January of 2004
Cisco 15454
4 x 1 GigE
2 x OC-48
3 x OC-102
Participation in the GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility
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6. MAN LAN Experimental Facility
Current Connections
OC-192
CA*net
Surfnet
Abilene
1 GigE
MAN LAN Switch (4 x 1 GigE)
TYCO/IEEAF OC-192 supports Surfnet/Abilene connectivity through Cisco 15454s
OC-48 devoted to Surfnet/Abilene peering (through OC-192 interface on Abilene router)
Remainder is devoted to experimentation – example was recent LA to CERN lightpath demonstration
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7. MAN LAN
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8. MAN LAN
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9. References More Information http://networks.internet2.edu/manlan/
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