Download Leveraging Internet2 Facilities for the Network Research Community

Building Research and Education
Networks Through Collaboration
Rick Summerhill
Chief Technology Consultant, Internet2
ICTRF 2010
Khalifa University
9 May, 2010
Overview
• Why Research and Education
Networks?
• Collaboration From the Beginning
• Technology and the Network
• More than Just the Network
• Conclusions and the Importance of
Collaboration
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Why R&E Networks?
• Large data flows and other special
requirements on such flows
• The ability to examine and develop new
network capabilities
• Providing platforms to support network
research
• Provide a vehicle for collaborative
development of network applications
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Why R&E Networks? Large Flows
• Historically, research traffic has challenged
the capabilities of commodity networks
– Flows can be very large
– They can also require significant traffic shaping
• Flows in the commercial internet tend to be
fairly small – they typically lag behind the
research community
• Research Projects like the LHC, LIGO, and
DUSEL require significant data transfers
across multiple R&E networks
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LHC
• The Large Hadron Collider
• Huge data flows processed and sent to Tier 1 sites around the
world, and then on to Universities (Tier 2 and 3 sites) and and
other Labs, typically connected through R&E networks.
• A participating university might require data flows of 10 Gbps for
hours on end.
The collider and CMS
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eVLBI
• Very Large
Baseline
Interferometry
– Combine radio
telescope images
over wide
baselines.
– Perfect example of
a project that can
utilize dedicated
network
capabilities
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DUSEL
• Deep Underground
Science and
Engineering
Laboratory
– Supports the
underground needs
of major scientific
fields.
– Getting the data to
researchers all over
the world depends
on interconnecting
R&E networks
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Large Data Projects
• Just three of many such projects currently underway
• Note that the success of all of these projects,
depends strongly on collaboration
• And all depend on interconnected networks that
depend on collaboration between networks and
within R&E network communities
• For Further Information
– http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ and http://www.uslhc.us/
– http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
– http://www.dusel.org/
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Why R&E Networks? New Ideas!
• Development of new network protocols and
properties
– Hybrid networks – integrating circuit and
packet switched technologies
– Performance and monitoring systems such
as perfSONAR – a world-wide
development project
– Providing data network performance for the
network research community
– Middleware
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Example:
Hybrid (Virtualized)
Networks using OpenFlow
•Research Projects Coexisting with Production Services
•Collaboration between Stanford Research group and Internet2
Middleware - National Identity
Management Federations
Brazil
China
Malaysia
Portugal
Taiwan
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Australia (AAF)
Canada (CAF)
Croatia (AAI@EduHr)
Czech Republic
(eduID.cz)
Denmark (WAYF)
Finland (HAKA)
France (CRU)
Germany (DFN-AAI)
Greece (HEAL-Link)
Hungary (NIIF)
Italy (IDEM)
Japan (学認 / Gakunin)
New Zealand (AAF)
Norway (FEIDE)
Oman (Oman-KID)
Spain (CBIC, SAUWoK, SIR)
Sweden (Federation SwamID)
Switzerland (SWITCHaai)
The Netherlands (SURFnet)
United Kingdom (UK Access Fed.)
United States (InCommon)
Example: Federated Identity and
Authorization for perfSONAR
Why R&E Networks?
• Providing platforms for research on
networking and collaborating with network
researchers on protocols new developments
– Providing infrastructure for projects like the GENI
(Global Environment for Network Innovations)
• Perhaps most importantly knowledge transfer
between participants and keeping abreast of
the changing requirements of the research
and education community
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Collaboration From The Beginning
• Before the Internet became an essential resource in
our lives, networking was primarily dependent on
proprietary protocols
– BITNET was an example
• From the early days of the Internet, however, open
protocols became the norm, and building such
networks depended on collaboration within the R&E
community
– In the US, the IP network was dependent on research
groups and universities (and later corporations) forming
regional networks and connecting those networks to a
backbone, which was then interconnected to other networks
• Indeed, the “Internet” means the interconnection of
networks!
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Collaboration From The Beginning
• The NSF in the US was essential in this development
• The same basic hierarchies continue today, although
in a much more complicated network universe
• Moreover, the fact that there is no central authority
over the Internet means that networks must work
together to provide services – that is especially true
in the R&E world.
• This begs the need for even greater collaboration
between researchers, educators, and networks at all
levels – campus, state, regional, national, and
international
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Technology and Building Networks
• In the early days of networking, R&E networks typically leased
circuits from telcos and controlled just the routers at the IP layer
• This was true, for example, for Internet2 and its first network,
called “Abilene”
– The Partners in that project were the universities, regional networks
then called gigapops, and the formation of Internet2 as an
organization
– It also included three very important commercial partners: Cisco,
Nortel, and Qwest! It became clear that collaborations between
the R&E network community had to extend to the commercial
sector.
• In today’s world, however, it is typical for R&E networks to
control all layers in the protocol stack
– That means from the fiber up to higher level protocols!
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Building Networks
• Major Questions:
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Who are the participants in the network?
Where are the connectors to the network?
What physical medium is available to connect those sites?
Who will manage the network?
• Layer 0
– What fiber is available, and how is it available – long term
IRUs, for example?
– Do you have to build your own fiber, and what partners might
you do that with?
– What are the properties of the fiber – types, hut spacing, etc.
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Building Networks, continued
• Layer 1
– Is support for multiple waves needed on the network?
– What is the availability of wave equipment for the fiber footprint?
Hut spacing, for example
– What are the regeneration requirements? How often does drop
add have to be done, for example? What about OEO versus long
optical paths?
– Do your connectors need dedicated circuits for special
requirements?
– What are the bandwidth requirements? 100Gbps?
– Do sub-wave circuits need to be supported?
• Layer 2
– Is a separate layer 2 switching component needed or can it be
incorporated at layer 3?
– Do connectors expect dedicated vLANs, for example?
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Building Networks, continued
• Layer 3
– Are there special routing requirements?
– Do lower layers need to be supported at the IP layer? For
example, MPLS?
• Management and Operations
– Who will manage the network?
– How will connectors interface with management operations?
• The KISS principle is important to remember in all these
considerations!
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Building Networks, continued
• Interestingly enough, the R&E community in the
United States went through this process within the
last two months as part of a proposal for an
expanded network.
• The process involved a collaboration between many
different entities and partners
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Universities
Regional Networks
Other Collaborations formed from Regional Networks
Internet2 and NLR
Commercial providers like Cisco, Ciena/Nortel, Juniper, Infinera,
Level3, etc.
• The process was a huge effort that could not have
been done without collaboration!
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Much More than Just a Network!
• It’s what users, and in particular, researchers can do
on the network!
• The organization provides the vehicle, and indeed the
encouragement, to develop new applications and
uses of the network.
• Consider the recent IDEA awards at the Internet2
Spring Member Meeting.
– Echo Damp - a software multi-channel audio mixer and echo
controller designed primarily for a high performance network
– REDDnet – a large distributed storage facility for dataintensive collaboration among the researchers
– Worldview – a hands-on network visualization system
– Shibboleth – federated single sign-on software
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Initiatives and special communities
• Bring together thought
leaders from member
organizations and broader
research and education
community
• Work together to advance
frontiers of network-enabled
applications in various
communities of interest
• Arts and Humanities, Health
Sciences, Health Network,
Science and Engineering,
K20, Network Research
Enabling Tomorrows Discoveries
Education
Applications
Economy
Quality of Life
Possibilities
Achievements
Progress
Knowledge
Network technology
advancement is the means,
not the end
• R&E thought leaders hail
from a wide range of
disciplines
• Next-generation
cyberinfrastructure
impacts the lives of
people today—wherever
they are, whatever their
interests
• We focused earlier on
science, but …
Health Sciences, Health Network
Initiatives
• Facilitates creation and
enhancement of
advanced health
applications, identifies
guidelines and solutions
• Extends connectivity to
new and underserved
areas
• Extends education and
training: live surgery
events
• Extends research:
provides access to large
datasets
Arts & Humanities Initiative
• Opens a new, global stage
to a worldwide audience via
high-definition broadcasts
• Opens master classes and
auditions to remote
musicians
• Enables live multi-site
performances
• Unlocks important content
collections to worldwide
audiences
• Holds performance
production workshops
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K20 Initiative
• Connects over 65,000
community anchor
institutions
• CAHSEE: Stepping
Into Your Future
• Riverbluff: Broadcasts
from an Ice Age cave
• NASA scientists take
educators on “earth
missions”
• Muse site connects
K20 members and
enthusiasts
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Conclusions
• Research and education networks provide a vehicle
to support essential collaborations:
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For the research community
To develop new networking concepts and ideas
For the development of new applications
For education on a world-wide basis
To encourage collaborations in many different disciplines
• Research and education networks require
collaboration on many different levels – between
educational institutions; other regional, national, and
international networks; and with both corporate and
governmental entities to provide advanced services
to the R&E community!
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Thank You!