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Advanced Networking Initiatives
in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Presentation to
EDUCAUSE
Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Anthony Conto, Ph.D.
Executive Director, MAX
www.maxgigapop.net
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MAX MISSION
To bring cost-attractive, high
performance, end-to-end connectivity
to the mid-Atlantic region to enable the
missions of its constituent institutions
Brief Background & History
• Founding consortium: Georgetown U., George
Washington U., U. of Maryland, Virginia Tech
• 1999 had OC-3 to carry traffic to Abilene
• Building partnerships with commercial sector
• Evolved into a cohesive group of universities, federal
research labs, and commercial and non-profit
institutions
• focused on the common goal of building the most advanced
regional network in the nation
• Currently operating an OC-48 network in the DC
metro area with extensions into the Baltimore area.
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Advanced Networking Goals of MAX
• Ensure that researchers have access to the best networking
infrastructure possible
• Fast, advanced services from the desktop to the backbone
• Advanced services to whatever backbones evolve
• Ensure that Greater Baltimore-Washington-Virginia region is ‘visible’ on
the national networking scene to be sure that the infrastructure evolves
to meet future needs
• Leverage the intellectual capital in the MD-DC-VA region by providing
high speed infrastructure accessible to many sizes and types of
organizations
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MAX game plan
• Basic infrastructure allows customized evolution to new
technologies.
• Strategy
• “Big picture” cooperative planning among institutions to
incrementally create robust infrastructure.
• Fiber/facilities construction where/when appropriate
• Multi-institutional engineering teams
• Broad based applications’ technologies/services
• Commercial partnerships to help develop new technologies
and new service models.
• Leverage state and municipal infrastructure programs.
• Inter-regional peering and/or transit agreements
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Working Groups
• Management
• Advise on issues related to the management and offerings of MAX
• Commodity Transport
• Providing Engineering Assistance
• Engineering
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Advise on engineering related issues
IP Architecture and Optical Transport
Network Operations
Commodity Transport
IPv6, QoS, and Applications development and deployment
• Assessments and recommendations presented to Board of
Founders for approval
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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 ISIEast (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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GigaPoP Peerings
• Extend regional resources to the consortium
• National resources accessed at high bandwidth
• NIH, NLM, NASA, NSF, Smithsonian--(soon)
• National Network Peerings
• Abilene, vBNS, ESnet, Supernet (soon), ATDnet(soon),
CA*NET3, STAR TAP, STAR LIGHT, APAN
• NGIX
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Where MAX connectivity is today
• OC48 to Abilene
• OC12 connection by NASA/GSFC
• OC3/Gigabit Ethernet by most participants
• DS3 by some participants
• Connectivity into Baltimore region
• Exploring dark fiber options in northern Virginia
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Current Connectors
• University of Maryland
• Georgetown University
• George Washington
University
• U of M, Baltimore County
• NASA / GSFC
• NSF
• NIH
• NLM
• Howard Hughes Med.
Institute
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NOAA
U.S. Geological Survey
Catholic University
Univ. System of Maryland
SURA
Kennedy Krieger Institute
NASA / ETC
UCAID
NCSA / ACCESS
Fujitsu Labs of America
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MAX Network Overview
USM
ETC
KKI
BALT
NGIX
(UMB)
OC3
DCGW
CLPK
(GWU)
(UMCP)
OC48/WDM
ARLG
OC48/fiber (pending)
DCNE
(Qwest)
Abilene
RSTN
(tbd)
ARLG
ISI East
NCSA ACCESS
UMCP
UMBC
GWU
GT
NLM
NIH
GSFC
NSF
UCAID
SURA
NOAA
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads
National/Inter-national
Peering Networks
Supernet
Abilene
DREN
ESNet
VBNS
NISN
ISP
Regional Network
Participants
ATDNet
net.work.Maryland
Institutional
Participants
NREN
NGIX-East
MAX
Regional
Infrastructure
The Catholic University of of America
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kennedy Krieger Institute
NASA/Emerging Technologies Center
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
National Consortium for Supercomputer Applications/ACCESS
National Institutes of Health
Network Virginia
National Library of Medicine
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Science Foundation
Southeastern Universities Research Association
University Consortium for Advanced Internet Development
University of Maryland
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University System of Maryland
U.S. Geological Survey
Abilene Map
• New Abilene Map from Dan
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The Quilt Network
PNWGP
(WA)
OREGON
(OR)
Northern
Lights
(ND)
PNWGP
(MO)
PNWGP
(ID)
FRGP
(WY)
(UT)
FRGP
(CO)
GPN
(MO)
PSC
(PA)
OARnet
(OH)
(IN)
(AZ)
(NM)
Texas Gigapop
(TX)
(HI)
SOX
(TN)
Texas SOX
(AL)
(MS)
(CT)
(NJ)
MAX
NWV
(VI)
Net.Virg
SoX
GPN
(AR)
(MA)
PSC
(WV)
(KY)
(OK)
(NH)
NYSERnet
(NY)
(IA)
Cenic
(CA)
(AK)
(VT)
Merit
(MI)
MREN
(IL)
GPN
(KS)
NoX
MREN
(WI)
Northern
Lights
(SD)
GPN
(NE)
Cenic
(NV)
Northern
Lights
(MN)
(RI)
(DE)
MAX
(MD)
NC Giga
(NC)
SOX
SOX (SC)
(GA)
Cenic (CA, NV)
MAX (MD, VI)
Merit (MI)
MREN (WI, IL)
Texas
(LA)
FRGP (CO, WY)
GPN (NE, KS, AR, IA)
N. Lights (ND, SD, MN)
NC Giga (NC)
NET.Virg (KY)
(FL)
NWV (VI)
NYSERnet (NY)
OARnet (OH)
NoX
(ME,NH,VT,MA,CT,RI)
OREGON (OR)
PNWGP (WA,ID,MO)
PSC (PS,WV)
SOX (TN,AL,GA,SC)
Texas (TX,LA,MS)
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MAX networking efforts are directed
toward extending the services &
performance of the national high
performance backbones into the region
and to leverage the resources of MAX
for the good of all participants.
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