update
Joint Techs Workshop
Minneapolis, MN – 12 February 2007
Damir Pobrić, Sr. Network Engineer ([email protected])
CANARIE
Canada’s Advanced Networking Organization
Legal status: Not-for-profit, public-private partnership
Incorporated 1993
18 member Board: half industry, half institutional
Institutional Bd. members include 3 VPRs, 1 Dean and 1 CIO
Mandate:
Core is a blend of R&E network management and next-generation
internet project
From 1993-2004 also managed numerous application development
programs
Funding:
Funded by the Federal Government
Current round of funding for CAnet 4 was $126 million, incl. interest
Period covered: April 1, 2002 - March 31, 2007
CANARIE funding renewal proposal submitted to Government: outlook is
good however no announcements yet
Fees:
No user fees for domestic users
$2,500 annual institutional membership fees in CANARIE Inc.
Marginal cost recovery charges to international users
CAnet 4 infrastructure
> infrastructure, rather than a network
> designed to support many independent IP
networks/platforms and enable Users to manipulate
network elements through software abstraction
> consists of OC-192 wavelengths leased from carriers and
terminated on CANARIE SONET switches
> hybrid service offering; majority of capacity for LightPaths
> 2 new ROADM network projects w/ objectives:
– meet continuing growing 10G demand of large-scale e-science
– enable deployment of 10G to the desktop through partnership and
DWDM interconnect with ORANs and their members in BC, Alberta,
Ontario and Québec
– co-management of the optical infrastructure
Eastern ROADM Networks
> 2000+ km of fibers, 34 active sites
– 20Y IRU from Level3 (through FiberCo)
– 14Y IRU from TELUS
> Chicago – Windsor/Detroit – Toronto – Ottawa –
Montréal – Boston – New York
> In partnership with ORANO
– Windsor / Detroit – Ottawa portion will be co-managed
> Will interconnect with new CANARIE-funded RISQ
ROADM network
> Interconnection with Internet2 Meriton ROADM
network in Detroit and sharing of racks between Ann
Arbour and Chicago
Eastern ROADM
Western ROADM
> 1500 km of fibers, 22 sites
– 12Y IRU from Bell Canada
> Seattle – Victoria – Vancouver – Kamloops –
Kelowna – Calgary
> In partnership with BCNET and NETERA
– to be co-managed
Western ROADM
ROADM site detail
Nortel CPL/eROADM
> 72 lambda (C-band 50 GHz) DWDM transport platform
> supports 10 GbE/OC-192; will support 40G without
hardware overhaul
> Self-optimizing electronic dispersion compensation
> automatic dynamic power balancing
> network planning, engineering, configuration and
deployment are simplified and automated
> Modular architecture that scales incrementally
> Management on a per wavelength granularity
What is UCLP?
> CANARIE program, 3 development proposals funded:
CRC-Inocybe-i2CAT-Ud'O, UQAM-Ud'O, Solana Networks
> User Controlled LightPaths – a network virtualization and
management tool built using web services.
> Resources can be grouped and given to dedicated
individuals or organizations creating Articulated Private
Networks (APN).
> Via the service interface, APN owner can establish crossconnections, change bandwidth or lease their resources.
> Uses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and so network
can be integrated with other web service applications
UCLPv2 GUI
UCLP APN manager
CRC-i2CAT-Inocybe-UofO
www.uclp.ca
CAnet 4 services
> offerings: layer 1, layer 3, and UCLP
– L1: sub-rate and 1 GbE, and 10GbE LightPaths (over OC-12c,
OC-24c, and OC-192c) to Users
– L3: 1 GbE connections to ORAN Users mainly
– UCLP: web service workflow based software provisioning tool
which permits Users to provision and re-engineer LightPaths at
will, to create and manipulate their own Articulated Private
Networks
> service policy: best efforts
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regular business hour NOC (Ottawa time)
7/24/365 duty engineer available by pager
4 hour response from carriers
NBD parts replacement in case of infrastructure failure
is up to the User to design redundancy as required, e.g. obtain 2
diverse LightPaths
CAnet 4 services coming
soon
> hybrid infrastructure
– a mix of ROADM/fibre and carrier OC-192 wavelengths
> services
– lambda: 10GbE and OC-192
– L1: GbE and 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, and 10GbE over LAN Phy port and
VCAT (over one or two diverse paths using VCAT+LCAS)
– L3: possible 10GbE router upgrade in 2008-2009?
– UCLP expanded to support private (virtual) L3 routing services
> network innovation:
– web services of large-scale instruments and any scale sensors
– working with Cdn industry to advance adoption of SOA
technologies
Global Lambda Integrated
Facility (GLIF)
international exchange points
> GLIF founding participant and GLORIAD partner
> GLIF Open LightPath Exchange (GOLE) model
– - facilitate international interconnections
– - minimize quantity of colo, equipment and cards required
– - minimize call blocking probability at optical exchange points
> CANARIE: GOLE Operator
– in Chicago (StarLight), co-managed with StarLight
– in Seattle, co-managed with PNWGP
• User can call CANARIE, local partner, or use UCLP
> CANARIE: GOLE User
– CAnet 4 NYC-Amsterdam OC-192 terminates on Internet2 MAN
LAN, and SURFnet NetherLight GOLEs
CANARIE’s Direction:
Towards the Lambda Grid
Some Current Projects
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ATLAS Canada
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Support of Gridx1 and provision of 10 Gbps lightpath to CERN
Canadian Virtual Observatory
– DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment at Herzberg Institute in Victoria.
Neptune Canada
– Integrated instruments, databases, visualization
Canadian Light Source
– Instruments and lightpaths as grid services
WestGrid
– SMP at UofA, Cluster at UBC and Storage at SFU.
Eucalyptus
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Carleton U Architectural Collaborative Design
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McGill Neurological Brain Scan Database
– In partnership with UCSD
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CINEGRID
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Ryerson U
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Environment Canada ECOnet
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NRC NRnet II
Thank you!
> Additional information:
– CANARIE web site http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/
– For any CAnet 4 or UCLP related questions e-mail CANARIE
engineering [email protected]
> Questions?