Download In preparation of Workprogramme 2000 IST: overview of status

Optical Networks and eVLBI
Bill St. Arnaud [email protected]
CANARIE Inc.- Overview
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Federal leadership: Concept born in 1990 out of Industry Canada discussions
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Founding: Incorporated in 1993 by industry and academia
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Funding: From Industry Canada: For networks and research applications from
Canadian Heritage, HRDC, Health Canada
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Mission: To facilitate development and use of Canada’s advanced
communications infrastructure
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Primary stakeholders: Government Departments, universities, provincial
research networks, broader research community, colleges, carriers, IT sector,
SMEs, broader education sector, broader health sector, provinces
CA*net 4 Drivers
Application Specific Networks
> Soon high end grid applications will have sufficient traffic volume to
require their own underlay networks ”Complementing” routed
networks
– Not a replacement for routed networks – only increasing the direct
peering mesh of the routed network for specific applications
– But peering may be more dynamic (and not globally advertised) than
traditional IP BGP peering
> Discipline or applications specific networks
– VBLI grids like European EVN
– High energy physics grid – Ultralight
– NEES grid, Bio-informatics Grid, etc
eVLBI driving network
architectures
> MERLIN in UK links several radio dish sites with optical
fiber network
> European EVN and LOFAR will built around optical
lightpaths on GEANT network
> In Canada eVLBI is mostly used for Geodetic applications
– GPS corrections
– Measuring movement of Canadian shield
> DRAO (astronomical dish) will be soon connected to
CA*net 4 network so that they can participate in global
eVLBI
S2 VLBI Space Observatory
Example – EVN traffic flows
over GEANT
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JANET
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JIVE
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SURFnet
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Issues
> How do you charge for bandwidth and usage when single
application traffic dwarfs all other IP traffic?
> Possible solutions:
1. GMPLS (with QoS)
• Requires expensive routers and complex coordinated
central management to setup and tear down tunnels
• Interdomain still unproven
2. Optical overlay/underlay –ASON
– same problems as GMPLS
3. Application specific UCLP networks
– Increase BGP mesh for specific applications or disciplines
UCLP applied to EVN
Express route
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JANET
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SURFnet
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EVN sites will see 2 BGP routes to SURFnet:
-the normal IP route over GEANT
-Express route using dedicated lightpaths (in green)
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What is UCLP?
> User Controlled LightPaths – a configuration and
provisioning tool built around web services
> Third party (e.g. eVLBI) can concatenate cross connects
together from various networks to produce a wide are
network that is under their control
– Articulated Private Network (APN)
> Uses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and so network
can be integrated with other web service applications such
as instruments and software correlators
> Allows eVLBI users to change configuration and topology
of the optical network to meet research needs
GLIF links
Recommended Browsing
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UCLP Roadmap Document
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LOOKING
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www.instrument-middleware.org
EU GridCC
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http://it.nees.org/documentation/pdf/TR-2004-23.pdf
Common Instrument Middleware Architecture
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http://lookingtosea.ucsd.edu/
NEESgrid Tele-Operation Network Protocol
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http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/UCLP_Roadmap.doc
http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/advnet2004/ppt/maron.ppt
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