Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown

Principal Investigators, STAR TAP

Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren Litvanyi, Andy Schmidt

STAR TAP Engineering

Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward

StarLight Facilities Development and Operations

STAR TAP and StarLight

• STAR TAP: 5-year-old operational cross-connect of the world's high-performance Production R&E Networks 45-622Mb ATM       

• StarLight: optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting and switching/routing – Production Networks at 1Gb – Experimental Networks at 1Gb, 2.5Gb, and 10Gb – Research Networks at 10Gb

• Funded by US NSF CISE ANIR, EIA and ACIR infrastructure grants to UIC, UIUC, NU, and IU

• Enabling and sustaining support by ANL MCS

Who is StarLight?

StarLight is jointly managed and engineered by: • International Center for Advanced Internet Research

(iCAIR), Northwestern University– Joe Mambretti, David Carr, and Tim Ward

• Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago– Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Cliff

Nelson, and Andy Schmidt

• Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) , Argonne National Laboratory – Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, and Caren Litvanyi; Rick

Stevens and Charlie Catlett

What/Where is StarLight?

710 N. Lake Shore Drive, ChicagoAbbott Hall, Northwestern UniversityChicago view from 710

StarLight is an experimental optical infrastructure andproving ground for network services optimized forhigh-performance applicationsStarLight Assists $32M (FY2002-3) in experimental networks (I-WIRE, TeraGrid, OMNInet, SURFnet, CA*net4, DataTAG)

StarLight Carriers

• Currently Present:– Ameritech– AT&T– Qwest– Global Crossing– Teleglobe– And I-WIRE Dark Fiber

• More are coming…

StarLight Service Description Today

• StarLight is a Gigabit Ethernet exchange point• Policy-free 802.1q VLANs are created between

peering partners• StarLight benefits connecting networks:

– High-speed peering with large MTU– Available collocation space – Planned 10GigE, other switched services– Several US and international networks connected– Multicast support

StarLight is Now Fully Operational

• StarLight Equipment installed: – Cisco 6509 with lots of GigE ports– Juniper M10 and M5 (with GigE and

OC-12 interfaces)– Cisco LS1010 with OC-12 interfaces– ESnet’s IPv6 Router– Data mining cluster with GigE NICs

• SURFnet’s Cisco 12000 GSR &15454• Multiple vendors for GigE, 10GigE, and

DWDM

ESNet (OC-3c soon OC-12c)Abilene (OC-12c)vBNS (OC-12c)FASTNet (OC-3c)Fermilab (OC-3c)Argonne (OC-12c)CANARIE (OC-3c)MREN (layer2)6TAP

Abilene (2xGE)SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c)Argonne (2xGE)Northwestern University (GE)AMPATH (GE)vBNS+ (OC12c soon)

WKN 20011202

TRANSPAC (OC-12c)NORDUNET (OC3c)6TAPMREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE soon)ESnet (GE soon)

STAR TAP and StarLight Services Description

ATM PVC Exchange Service

ATM PVC Exchange Service

AS 10764IPv4 and IPv6Transit Service

AS 10764IPv4 and IPv6Transit Service

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

AADS NAP225 West Randolph

710 North Lake Shore Drive

2*OC12c

NPA/NXX 312/503

I-WIRE (dark fiber)

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

710 North Lake Shore Drive

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

QwestCo-Location

Facility

QwestCo-Location

Facility

455 N CityFront Plaza

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

NPA/NXX 312/503

Abilene (2xGE)SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c)Argonne (2xGE)Northwestern University (GE)AMPATH (GE)vBNS+ (OC12c soon)

I-WIRE (dark fiber)TRANSPAC (OC-12c)NORDUNET (OC3c)6TAPMREN (layer2 and 3)NREN (GE soon)ESnet (GE soon)

TeraGrid DTFnetESNetNREN

Extending StarLight Services via Qwest

I-WIRE dark fiber

Proposed Lambda/GbE Exchange

CERN

StarLight CA*net4

AMS

1545415454

Lambdas

2.5G->10G

Research GbE

Production GbE

(from router)

C/DWDM

15454 Control Plane Management

System Needed!

15454 Control Plane Management

System Needed!

UK

1545415454

1545415454

1545

415

454

GbE

Switch (Layer 2)

GbE

Switch (Layer 2)

NSF’s Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF)

Source: Rick Stevens 12/2001

Expansion Capability: StarLight Model

Los AngelesOne Wilshire(Carrier Fiber Collocation Facility)

Qwest San Diego POP

2200mi

140mi 25mi

115mi20mi

20mi

455 N. Cityfront Plaza(Qwest Fiber Collocation Facility)

Caltech SDSC NCSA ANL

Caltech Cluster

SDSC Cluster

NCSA Cluster

ANL Cluster

Regional Fiber Aggregation

PointsAdditional Sites

AndNetworks

710 N. Lakeshore (StarLight)

Chicago

DWDM

OC-192

10 GbE

Cienna Corestream DWDM

DWDM TBD

Cluster Aggregation

Switch/Router

Site Border Router or

Switch/Router

Other site resources

1 mi

IP Router

IP Router (packets)or

Lambda Router (circuits)

Source: Rick Stevens 12/2001

OMNInet Technology Trial Now Underway

• A four-site network in Chicago -- the first 10GE service trial!• A test bed for all-optical switching and advanced high-speed services• Partners: SBC, Nortel, iCAIR at Northwestern, EVL, CANARIE, ANL

2x10GE

Northwestern U

OpticalSwitchingPlatform

Passport8600

ApplicationCluster

ApplicationCluster

OpticalSwitchingPlatform

Passport8600

2x10GE

StarLight

OPTera Metro5200

ApplicationCluster

OpticalSwitchingPlatform

Passport8600

2x10GE8x1GE

UIC

CA*net3/4--Chicago

OpticalSwitchingPlatform

Passport8600

ApplicationCluster

2x10GE8x1GE

8x1GE

8x1GE

24-26 September 2002Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre (WTCW)

The Netherlands

Grid 2oo2www.startap.net/igrid2002www.igrid2002.org (COMING SOON)

The International Virtual Laboratory

i

Maxine BrownSTAR TAP/StarLight co-Principal Investigator

Associate Director, Electronic Visualization LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Coming…..

StarLight Thanks

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-

9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809

– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance

– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing

– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management

• Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership

• NSF/ANIR, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, and Olivier Martin and Harvey Newman of CERN for global networking leadership;

• NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities

• UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN/GTRN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC

• CA*net4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North American transport

“Bring Us Your Lambdas!”

www.startap.net/starlightwww.icair.org

www.evl.uic.eduwww.mcs.anl.gov

tom@uic.eduwinkler@mcs.anl.gov