Networking updates: Westnet

Networking updates:

Westnet

Marla Meehl

Acronym soup

• University Corporation for Atmospheric

Research (UCAR;

http://www.ucar.edu

)

– National Center for Atmospheric Research

(NCAR)

– Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)

– Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON)

– Western Regional Network (WRN)

• Questions and discussions throughout as needed – and as for acronym soup ingredients, please ask if I miss one or check decoder page at http://bit.ly/acronym-soup

Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)

•

http://www.frgp.net

• Continued and expanded LANDER support

and partnership

• PerfSonar in the FRGP continues to expand

and be a valuable tool

• Started new 5-year agreement cycle 7/1/14

• New agreements

• Completely new cost model

• Increased costs due to shifts from UCAR

• Some smaller participants moved to

EAGLE-Net due to cost increases - ~5

FRGP Cont’d

• Colocation updates

• The UPS fix/update/removal

• 910 15th

• adding NOAA TIC colo

• splicing CDOT fiber to expand BiSON

• Continued steady growth in all traffic (peering,

commodity, I2, etc.)

• New participants:

– NEON

– Jefferson County School District – CSU-P

– Colorado College – State of Wyoming – I2-USDA

FRGP Cont’d

• Peering

– Upgrading connection to Google to 2x10G

– Comcast moving to 10G

– TR/CPS – still largest single FRGP usage – Akamai - continues high utilization

– Netflix - continues high utilization – Coresite/Any2 – 10Gbps exchange – Open to other peering opportunities

–

95th Percentiles - Member port maximum

and 95th percentiles

FRGP Traffic - 2014

• Peering: 53.33

• Internet2: 31.36

• Commercial: 15.31

Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON)

• Expanded to:

• National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) – ring pending

• Expanding to:

• CSU-P

• Colorado College • UC-CS

• I2-USDA

• Jefferson County School District • CSM – ring pending

• UW – upgrading to 100G

• Continuing to build ADVA replacement fund and upgrade to

100G

UCAR Point of Presence

(UPoP)

• Gone

– UPoP integrated into the FRGP and ceased to be a

separate entity with the flattening of the new FRGP cost model effective 7/1/14

Internet2

• NET+ roll out

• Expansion to further RONs on hold pending I2

• Considering having third party, MERIT, manage for Colorado via FRGP or EAGLE-Net

• Marla co-chairing I2 Diversity Initiative

Internet2

• Steve and Marla participating in I2

Network/Connector call/meeting agenda

development

• Discussing the evolution in the R&E networking ecosystem

• Opportunities to collectively serve national

organizations such as PBS, USDA, etc. and how we work together to create solutions.

• Network architecture that includes both Internet2 and the regionals in support of “friction-free” science and innovation among the research universities.

CDOT

• Lots of fiber activity in various parts of the

State

• I-25 build – complete by EAGLE-Net

• EAGLE-Net installing colo at the NCAR Wyoming

Supercomputing Center (NWSC)

• US36 fiber into Boulder of great interest –

ongoing discussion

• Southern Colorado

• CDOT/Higher Ed Fiber Map

• Golden Ring

WRN

• Regular WTC and WPC calls

• 100G ports in LA, Seattle, and Chicago

• Upgrading WRN to 100G using Ciena optics

in I2 WDM hardware and 100G Brocade

switches

• Pending I2 100G lambda activation

• 100G FRGP Juniper router access

Quilt items

– TeliaSonera International Carrier – TW Telecom

– Zayo Bandwidth

• Monitoring FCC activities including E-rate • Quilt growing

• Quilt Member Meeting/Leadership Workshop – 9/14 – Madison,

EAGLE-Net

• Partnered with Affiniti to operate and

manage network

–

http://www.affiniti.com/

–

https://www.co-eaglenet.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Affiniti_Backgrounde

r.pdf

• Completed build out of network by August

2014

• FRGP working in partnership on fiber and

Rocky Mountain Cyberinfrastructure

Mentoring and Outreach Alliance

(RMCMOA)

• NSF CC*IIE Grant

• PIs/Organizations: Colorado State

University (Pat Burns), UCAR (Marla

Meehl), University of Colorado (Thomas

Hauser) , University of Utah (Steve

Corbato), IRON (Michael Guryan – Senior

Personnel)

RMCMOA Cont’d

• The partners have a long and fruitful history of

collaboration, leadership and innovation in regional and state networking, cyberinfrastructure (CI), and high

performance computing (HPC) technology and infrastructure operations. These partners propose to leverage their

expertise and organizational structures to lead and manage an outreach effort to better inform, educate and drive

adoption and expansion of advanced networking and CI technologies to small colleges and universities in the

western region of the United States, specifically those in the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. This regional footprint coincides geographically with the NSF sponsored Westnet regional network that operated from 1986 through 1996 that still persists as a fruitful affinity group today.

RMCMOA Cont’d

• First RMCMOA workshop held yesterday, 1/13/15 • Agenda here:

–

NWSC

• Designing Pod A build-out for new

supercomputer due

• RFI out for new supercomputer operational by

Miscellaneous

• UCAR moved to Google June 2014

• UCAR adding OpenDNS to block pornography per 2014

appropriations language

• UCAR working to adhere to FCC DAS ruling • UCAR Delloitte IT audit

Futures/Challenges

• BiSON growth, upgrade, funding

• Supporting/funding services – NET+, etc.

• Replacing expiring fiber IRUs

Discussion

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Any follow up questions or

feedback?