Internet2 Fall Conference October 4, 2001

Partnering for Success

MAX – Qwest Alliance Builds a High Performance Network in the

Washington, D.C. Metro Area

Tony Conto, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)

Scott MacCloy, Qwest Communications, Inc

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Brief Background & History

• Founding consortium: Georgetown U., George Washington U., U. of Maryland, Virginia Tech

• 1999 had an OC-3 circuit to carry traffic to Abilene

• Mission: to deploy a high performance network to enable the research and education missions of MAX participants

• Build partnerships with the commercial sector to further the development of MAX

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Partnerships Extend GigaPoP Infrastructure

• Partnership with QwestLink to provide dark fiber ring within the Washington beltway• Connects Qwest PoP in DC to GWU, UMCP (MD) and ISI-

East (VA)• Developing commodity offering for MAX membership

• Partnerships with Juniper and LuxN to populate the network nodes with M160 routers and WDM switches

• Partnerships with Fibergate to provide some participant dark fiber connections to MAX

• Co-location with:• Qwest, Yipes, ATT, Verizon,

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Qwest Collaboration

• Cooperative in working within the budget constraints of the MAX

• Supported Internet2 from its beginnings• Understands the importance of corporate support

for the educational infrastructure

• Support of educational initiative integrates with the Qwest business model

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Partnership Success

• MAX evolved into a cohesive group of universities, federal research labs, and non-profit institutions • focused on the common goal of building one of

the most advanced regional networks in the nation

• Partners make connection options and networking equipment available to members

• Partnership with Qwest makes available a variety of additional services to its members

MAX Network Overview

BALT(UMB)

CLPK(UMCP)

ARLG

OC48/WDM

OC48/fiber (pending)

USMETCKKI

UMCPUMBCGWUGTNLMNIHGSFCNSFUCAIDSURANOAA

ARLGISI EastNCSA ACCESS

DCNE(Qwest)

DCGW(GWU)

RSTN(tbd)

OC3

NGIX

Abilene

OADM

Target Core Optical Network

WDSTOC3c POS

OC48c POSOC192c POS (future)

OC48c POS

QwestISP

Abilene

Router

Router

Router

Router

Router

ISIE

GWU QWST

UMCP

NGIXATM

OC48c POS (Pending)

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MAX Focus

• Focus has been on getting the network operational

• Emphasis now is to promote and enable applications that will push the limits of the network’s capacity• Currently involved in muticast applications with

several participants• IPv6 will be implemented between Fujitsu labs of

America with universities in Japan

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Mid-Atlantic Crossroads

Abilene

Network Virginia

ISP

National/Inter-nationalPeering Networks

Regional NetworkParticipants

InstitutionalParticipants

ATDNet

VBNS

NGIX-East

DREN

NISN

NRENESNet

MAXMAXRegional

Infrastructure

Supernet

National Library of MedicineNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNational Science FoundationSoutheastern Universities Research AssociationUniversity Consortium for Advanced Internet DevelopmentUniversity of MarylandUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyUniversity System of MarylandU.S. Geological Survey

The Catholic University of of AmericaGeorge Washington UniversityGeorgetown UniversityHoward Hughes Medical InstituteKennedy Krieger InstituteNASA/Emerging Technologies CenterNASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterNational Consortium for Supercomputer Applications/ACCESSNational Institutes of Health

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