1. Facilities Based Networking Corporation for Education Networking Initiatives in California (CENIC)

2. Charter Associates  California Institute of Technlogy  California State University  Stanford University  University of California  University of Southern California

3. Mission Statement Facilitate and Coordinate the: Development,Deployment,Operations of a set of seamless and robust advanced network services. CENIC’s networks support advanced applications designed to enhance California’s leadership in research and education.

5. CalREN-DC Digital California  IP based network: OC-48  Serves 140 Higher Ed institutions, 8,000+ Elementary, Secondary and High Schools  8.0 million+ student, faculty & staff users  Internet2 connectivity and commodity ISP services

6. CalREN-HPR High Performance Research  IP based network, 10Gb Ethernet  50+ Research institutions, National Laboratories and San Diego Super Computing Center  California component of Internet2 with 10G and OC-12 connections  Serves hundreds of researchers

7. CalREN-XD Experimental/Development Network  10Gb wavelengths (OC-192c or 10G LANPHY) and dark fiber  Point-Point, Point-MultiPoint 1G Ethernet possible  Serves network researchers in California Research institutions  Four UC Institutes, USC/ISI, Stanford and CalTech

8. CalREN Optical Footprint

9. Northern California

10. Southern California

11. National Light Rail  Dark Fiber National footprint  Serves very high-end Experimental and Research Applications  4- 10.0 GB Wavelengths initially  Partnership

12. NLR “Service Offerings”  Point-to-Point wave (OC-192c or 10GE) No wave can interfere with othersNo wave can interfere with others  Shared IP service Must be able to tolerate outagesMust be able to tolerate outages Supports experimental codeSupports experimental code  Switched Ethernet service Delivered as gigabit EthernetDelivered as gigabit Ethernet Point-to-point or point-to-multipointPoint-to-point or point-to-multipoint

13. NLR Footprint and Layer 1 (15808s) Topology 15808 Terminal, Regen or OADM site (OpAmp sites not shown) Fiber route PIT POR FRE RAL WAL NAS PHO OLG ATL CHI CLE KAN OGD SAC BOS NYC WDC STR DAL DEN LAX SVL SEA SDG

14. Seattle Denver San Diego Sunnyvale Los Angeles Cleveland Pittsburgh New York City Boston DallasRaleigh Washington DC 10 Gig E 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 2 6 (OC192) 4 4 4 4 National Light Rail Lambda & Route Map Walnut Olga Stratford KansasOgden Sacramento Portland Pheonix Nashville 15808 LH System 15808 ELH System REGEN OADM 2 TERMINAL 4 4 2 Fresno 2 4 4 Salt Lake City 2 StarLight 6 Metro 10 Gig E OC192 15540 Metro System Chicago Atlanta Boise 2

15. NLR POP Architecture Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM Gig E 10 Gig E or OC192 NLR

16. Calren/DC/HPR/NLR PoP Architecture Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM Gig E 10 Gig E or OC192 CalRen DC HPR NLR Campus or Metro Interconnect One of above options used for Each campus 15500 CalREN/DC HPR NLR