Download TEN-155: Europe moves into the fast lane II

GÉANT: deployment and development of
Networking for European Research
Roberto Sabatino - DANTE
GÉANT
European Gbps Network for Research
• 10 Gbps in 8 locations, 9 circuits
• 2.5 Gbps in 7 locations, 12 circuits
• 3 providers: Colt, DeTe, Telia
• Connects 31 NRENs
• Connectivity to N.A (3x2.5Gbps)
Topology
LV
EE
LT
SE
UK
PL
IE
10Gbps
NL
BE
LU
FR
2.5 Gbps
DE
CZ
ES
SK
IL
34 - 622 Mbps
PT
CH
IT
HU
AT
BG
GR
SI
HR
CY
RO
Providers
LV
EE
LT
SE
UK
PL
IE
IL
COLT
NL
BE
LU
FR
DeTe
DE
CZ
ES
Telia
SK
PT
CH
IT
HU
AT
BG
GR
SI
HR
CY
RO
European Coverage for
wavelengths
• Easy in UK, FR, NL, DE, BE
• Accessible in AT, CH, ES, IT, CZ, HU, SK, PL, SE
• Too difficult in GR, PT, SI
• Virtually impossible elsewhere
• Europe is still not uniform! Especially in the
access
Technology
• Nortel, Lucent DWDM equipment
• 10 Gbps wavelengths are presented as SDH (i.e
POS interface on routers)
• 2,5Gbps are a mix of wavelengths and
“transparent” SDH services (provide clocking),
presented as SDH
GÉANT Development
• Multicast, ipv6, monitoring
• Support for User groups
• Premium IP (MOICANE, LONG, AQUILA…)
• MPLS techniques for support of testbeds (6NET,
ATRIUM, DATATAG)
• How can “pure optical networking” help?
• beyond 10Gbps to hundreds of Gbps
• 40Gbps ?
• Multiple wavelengths ?
Beyond 10Gbps
• 40Gbps in pipeline on DWDM equipment
• Router equipment readiness unclear
• Business case for carriers unclear
• Not only 40Gbps, but higher utilisation of
spectrum on fibres
• more wavelengths (up to 160)
• at various capacities (2.5, 10, 40 Gbps)
• Goal is to have access to 100+Gbps by 2004
What next ?
• Manage backbone resources
• how do we handle more wavelengths, optimise routing
• Manage user requests
• circuit switched vs. packet switched
• granularity - how do we handle XMbps out of 10Gbps?
• how to cope with reduced EU coverage for user requests
(grids)?
• What are the network components that will help us
do this?
Thank You !