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VIOLA Vertically Integrated Optical Testbed for Large Applications in DFN Implementation of a testbed for optical networking as a cooperation of industrial and research partners Peter Kaufmann (DFN-Verein) [email protected] Ferdinand Hommes (FhG/IMK) [email protected] November 2005 www.viola-testbed.de Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 1 Project and Partners • Organized as consortium, Leader: DFN-Verein • Members of consortium: – – – – – Alcatel SEL AG, Siemens AG, FZ Jülich, Univ. Bonn, RWTH Aachen T-Systems International GmbH, FhG (IMK, SCAI), Stiftung caesar, FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (U Appl. Sc.) • Associated partner: GasLINE, Navtel, Univ. Erlangen • Term of Project: 3 Years – Start of VIOLA: June 2004 – Funding: ca. 11 M€ from BMBF (Ministry of Research) – Total costs: ca. 20 M€ Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 2 General Goals (1) • Test & evaluation of current developments of netwoking technology including signalling & management – State-of-the-art (pre-)products of industrial partners – Signalling mechanisms and interfaces – Wide area field tests, laboratory environment for specific tests • Preparation for X-WIN of DFN (successor of G-WIN) – Call for tender for fiber+WDM late 2004; implementation since Summer 2005; – Implementation of (new) routing/switching equipment in 2006/07; – Implementation as a stepwise process with increasing service complexity; • Implementation of a vertical testbed – Applications – Middleware tools – Optical transport technology for IP, SDH and GE Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 3 Testbed Topology Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 4 Components & Connections 8.2.2005 U. Eisenblätter, FhG-IMK 10 x MM 10 x GE 3 x MM ADVA 2 x FSP1500 GE 57 km 1 x MM 12 x GE 2 x MM Legend: Alcatel 7750 SR 10 Gbps coloured 10 Gbps SDH 10 GE n x 10 Gbps (WDM) 2,5 Gbps SDH 1 GE (with number and type of interface - TP, MM and/or SM) SDH Alcatel 1678 backbone node and user node FZ 8x MM user node Jülich other node 1 x MM 3 km RWTH Aachen 2x SM 2 x ADVA GE FSP1500 15 x MM 10GE 24 x Riverstone 15008 GE Naurod ADVA FSP1500 Dernbach 2 x MM Alcatel 1696 ADVA FSP1500 ADVA 2 x FSP1500 GE ADVA FSP1500 2x MM GÉANT 2 x MM Frankfurt ADVA FSP1500 ca. 200 km caesar Bonn 4 x MM 44 x TP 10GE 48 x Riverstone 15008 GE 12 x 10GE Riverstone GE 15008 7,8 km 116,2 km ADVA 2 x FSP1500 GE 17 km 12 x TP FH Bonn-Rhine-Sieg 2 x MM 6x MM optical amplifier 10GE 24 x Riverstone 15008 GE Porz Alcatel 1696 27,2 km 18 x MM 20 x 2 x GE MM 10 x 10 x GE MM 536 m 10GE SCAI Riverstone 24 x 15008 GE ADVA FSP 3000 Alcatel 1678 ADVA FSP 3000 16 x GE 4x MM Alcatel 10 x GE 10 x 7750 SR SDH Siemens hiT 7070 temporary locations P.Kaufmann/DFN ca. 400 km SDH Sycamore SN 16000 DWDM Sankt Augustin MM 8x GE 24 km TSI Nuremberg FhG IMK Uni Bonn Alcatel 7750 SR SDH Alcatel 1678 FhG SCAI 2 x MM 22 x TP 14,6 km … SDH 8x MM Heanet, November 2005 Cologne DWDM IMK 10GE Riverstone 24 x 15008 GE 10 x MM 12 x MM 8x SDH Siemens GE 8 x MM hiT 7070 16 km 10 Gbit/s SDH 8 x MM SDH 8 x GE 1 x 2,5 Siemens Gbit/s hiT 7070 Uni Erlangen Page 5 Equipment (1) • Equipment and Connectivity offers: – Different SDH-domains – In triangel in parallel with up to 10 Gbps: • SDH-connectivity and • L2-Ethernet-connectivity – User access with n * GE – e2e-connectivity via L2-service or via L2/SDH-service Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 6 Equipment (2) • Alcatel 1678 (SDH-Cross-Connect) – Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps-SDH (STM-64) and GE, with GFP – Signalling: OIF/UNI-N 1.0 R2 and E-NNI • Alcatel 7750 SR (Router) – Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps-SDH, GE and 10GE, L2-Service: VPLS (H-VPLS) • Riverstone 15008 (GE-Switch) – Interfaces: GE and 10GE, L2-Service: VPLS (H-VPLS) • Siemens SURPASS hiT 7070 (SDH Cross-Connect) – Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and GE, with GFP – Signalling: I-NNI, Cross-connect capacity: 160 Gbit/s • Siemens/Sycamore Networks SN16000 (SDH Cross-Connect) – Interfaces: up to 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64), – Signaling: E-NNI, I-NNI, OIF/UNI 1.0 R2, Cross-connect capacity: 2.5 Tbit/s Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 7 Network Signalling (1) GRID Applications Layer 2 Services Virtual Reality Layer 3 Services Layer 3 VPNs VPLS/HVPLS Layer 2/3 Switch/Router GFP/LCAS MPLS SDH Cross Connects GMPLS / UNI / I-NNI / E-NNI DWDM CWDM Fiber (GMPLS , all optical Switch) Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 8 Network Signalling (2) • Interworking in optical transport networks Signalling concepts: analysis and test them, contribution to specification – GMPLS for IP-based control plane (IETF) – ASON / ASTN (Automatic Switched Optical/Transport Network, ITU) – UNI for user controlled signaling and E-NNI (Optical Internetworking Forum, OIF) – Interoperability at UNI/NNI (OIF) – I-NNI-GMPLS-Interface Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 9 Network Signalling (3) • First Signalling-Results – – – – – – GMPLS with Soft-Perm-Conn at Alcatel-CC1678 in operation OIF-E-NNI at Alcatel-CC1678 and Sycamore-CC SN16000 available OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, network side at Alcatel-CC1678 available OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, network side at Sycamore-CC-SN16000 available OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, client side: Late 2005 OIF-UNI 2.0, planned for 1Q 2006 at Alcatel and Siemens CC – Interworking tests of OIF-E-NNI between Alcatel-CC1678 and Sycamore-CC-SN16000: some problems (interpretation of Unicast/Multicast OSPF-Packets when using IP-tunnels) Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 10 Network Signalling (4) • Provision of Ethernet-Service over SDH with bandwidth adjustment (New SDH: GFP, LCAS, VC). – GFP: Generic Framing Procedure (ITU-T G.7042), method to transport data packets (e.g. Ethernet) over SDH – LCAS: Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (ITU-T G.7041), dynamical bandwidth adjustment for SDH-links (variable VC4-container) – Virtual Concatenation (VC) instead of Continuous Concatenation (CC): VC4-Container may use different ways in the transport network • First New-SDH-Results – Basic tests/interworking between Alcatel-CC-1678, Siemens-CChiT7070 and ADVA-GE-MUX-1500 successful – LCAS tests in 4Q 2005 Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 11 Network Signalling (5) • Operation of L2-Subnetworks – VPLS, H-VPLS (Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service) – Based on Riverstone15008 and Alcatel-7750, connected via SDHEquipment (Alcatel-CC 1678) or directly with 10GE-LAN-Phy – Test: Performance, Functionality • First L2-Results – VLL and VPLS: OK – H-VPLS: Problems, Alcatel/Riverstone not fully compatible – Interworking Ether Flow Control between L2/SDH-Switches: OK – QoS-Fkt. for b/w limitations (Shaping,Policing;Ingress,Egress): OK Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 12 Network Signalling (6) 6 * GE 7750 Uni Bonn a50bn 15008 Uni Bonn r08bn 15008 caesar r08ca a78bn a 8s a7 8 ju a7 7750 FhG-IMK a50sa 7750 FZJ a50ju 6 * GE 15008 FZJ r08ju 15008 FhG-IMK r08sa 1 * GE now 1*GE Connection between a50sa and r08sa later 1*GE Connection from a50sa via SDH to r08sa 1 * GE SDH s70sa s70bn a78bn Legend: a78ju 15008 FhG-SCAI r08sa2 a78sa 10GE LAN-Phy VPLS Core GE H-VPLS Spoke STM 16 SDH GE SDH Heanet, November 2005 a78bn P.Kaufmann/DFN 15008 FH-BRS r08fh SDH Component Page 13 Network Signalling (7) • Development of interfaces for user controlled signalling Client Client UNI E-NNI I-NNI Heanet, November 2005 UNI I-NNI P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 14 Project Goal Middleware • Implementation of an operational environment for PCcluster based on UNICORE – UNICORE supports the operation of a Compute-Grid – Interoperability with Globus-toolkit and compatibility with OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture) is planned • Development / Portation of missing components – Development of a Meta-Scheduler based on Global Grid Forum Standards (Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol) – Portation of MetaMPI and integration in UNICORE – Adaptation/upgrading of local tools to connect and analyse distributed applications – Development of high-performance parallel-I/O-interfaces (main memory, file server) Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 15 Project Goal Applications (1) • Usage/upgrading of (existing) applications with high and dynamical transfer requirements (e.g. e-science / Grid) – Several GE-tunnels per application – Dynamical requirement of bandwidth with guaranteed QoS – User controlled networks (E2E) • Integration of real users – Variable requir. (time,size,quality) for „stress-test“ of network equipment • Based on experiences with new networks – Creation of new ideas for applications – Motivation of user groups for GRID-technology Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 16 Access of Applications to the Transport Network RWTH Aachen GÉANT Frankfurt WS 2 x GE Research Centre Jülich PC-Cluster 9 x 4 Proz. 9 x My 2 x GE Myrinet 1 Gbit/s 9 x GE 1 x 10GE WS Fraunhofer Institutes Sankt Augustin 17 x My PC-Cluster Myrinet 2 Gbit/s 7 x GE 17 x GE GESwitch 10 x GE 17 x 2 Proz. WS Transport Network University of Erlangen University of Bonn WS 8 x GE 4 x GE WS FH Bonn-Rhine-Sieg Sankt Augustin caesar PC-Cluster 40 x 2 Proz. 40 x GE GESwitch 2 x 10GE 1 x 10GE FE 11 x FE GESwitch 11 x GE PC-Cluster 11 x 2 Proz. Legend: PC... WS 11.11.2004 U. Eisenblätter, FhG-IMK Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN PC-Cluster / Grid Application Signalling tests and „stress tests“, VR and other Applications Page 17 Distribution of Costs/Funding Project Management (2%) Network (81%) Applications (13%) Cooperation and Dissemination (4%) Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 18 International Aspects • DFN participates in EGEE (Enabling Grids for e-science in Europe) – international Grid-Infrastructure based on existing networks • „VIOLA-Participation“ (DFN, TSI, Uni Erlangen) in FP6projects: – GN2 - Geant2 – MUPBED - Multi-Partner European Testbeds for Research Networking • The testbed VIOLA forms the national base to contribute successfully to international projects • Interested for cooperation with similar projects/activities in Europe and elsewhere Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 19 Status (1) • Testbed implementation was finished early 2005: – circuits are connected (including connection to G-WIN/GEANT) – equipment is installed; – network management is operational • Work items of „Transport & Signalling“ have been started: – – – – – – I-NNI: Available for Siemens-CC-hiT7070 E-NNI: Available for Alcatel-CC-1678 and Sycamore-CC-SN16000 E-NNI interoperability tests between Alcatel & Sycamore UNI-N 1.0 R2: Available for Alcatel-CC-1678 GFP/LCAS-Tests between Alcatel-1678 & Siemens-hiT7070 E2E: Specification of user interface & design of reservation system Heanet, November 2005 P.Kaufmann/DFN Page 20 Status (2) • L2-Test/Operation: – VLL/VPLS interoperability tests with Alcatel & Riverstone: OK – H-VPLS interoperability tests with Alcatel & Riverstone: Some problems • • • Initial version of middleware is deployed, Integration of new middleware components in progress Application projects have finished preparatory work First “runs” over the network have been made Applications are beginning to stress network & middleware. 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