STAR TAP Technical Advisory Committee IU NOC San Jose 22 June 1999 Michael McRobbie Doug Pearson

STAR TAP Technical Advisory Committee

IU NOC

San Jose

22 June 1999

Michael McRobbie <mcrobbie@ovpit.ucs.indiana.edu>

Doug Pearson <dodpears@indiana.edu>

http://www.transpac.org

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NOCs

Current– TransPAC operations/engineering– Abilene operations/engineering– IU networks operations/engineering

Developing– STAR TAP operations– Eurolink operations

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Standard Operations Procedures

– 24x7 operation– network monitoring– routing maintenance and problem isolation– problem reporting and referral– escalation– testing– notification– emergency communications– service level measurement and reporting– record keeping– change management– security management– ongoing training

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Tools - Current

standards, e.g. ping, traceroute, ... MRTG accounts on far-end hosts mping pathchar OC3mon (NLANR system) Surveyor at APAN exchange points

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Tools - Development

management station to be installed at STAR TAP– http://www.accumatics.com– dual boot

Accumatics OC3mon via LS1010 VC snoop custom performance/measurements environment

– mping, ttcp, pathchar, traceroute server, treno, netperf...

– Linux 5.2, kernel 2.2.9

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Tools - Development

TACACS access control to routers and switches– rights controls for NOC, local and peer network engineers– logs configuration changes

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Tools - Development

configuration management tools– archiving of router/switch configurations– automated differences report of router/switch configurations

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Tools - Development

command proxy for routers and switches– web-based mechanism to submit a query to a router or

switch and view the query results– length of request string limited– number of queries per device per unit time limited– limited to only certain commands– the mechanism logs into the target device using a non-

enabled username/password, sets term length to zero, executes the command and displays the result

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Tools - Development

network traffic/errors map– collect SNMP-based stats of utilization and interface errors– display in gracphical map

colors according to utilization errors as a logarithmic scale hash mark, with dampened decay

– time-based playback of graphs

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– BGP reporting tool– multicast monitoring

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TransPAC Management Committee

APANAustralia

Robin StantonMarkus Buchhorn

JapanShigeki Goto (Co-Chair)Kazunori Konishi

KoreaYong-Jin ParkKyungpyo Hong

SingaporeFrancis LeeTham Chen Khong

APAN ChairKilnam Chon

Tokyo XPAkira Kato

Management LiaisonHiromasa Kaneko

United StatesIndiana University

Michael McRobbie (Co-Chair)

Doug PearsonSteve WallaceJim WilliamsRick McMullenDennis GannonKaren Adamsreplacement for Allen

RobelAT&T

To be determinedSTAR TAP

Linda WinklerManagement Liaison

Steve Goldstein

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Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)

An international consortium established in June 1997 to promote advanced research in networking technologies and the development of high-performance broadband applications and infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.

Four primary members: Australia, Japan, Korea and Singapore.

Associate and other members: Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines.

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TransPAC Network

IPv4, native IPv6 and ATM services based on a 73Mbps VBR-nrt ATM connection from the APAN Tokyo exchange point to the STAR TAP in Chicago.

The original 35Mbps service was upgraded to 73Mbps in March of 1999.

Multicast is supported (although some problems)

The underlying ATM service is provided by AT&T and Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd.

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TransPAC Utilization

GREEN ### Input Transmission RateBLUE ### Output Transmission Rate

DARK GREEN### Maximal 5 Minute Incoming TrafficMAGENTA### Maximal 5 Minute Outgoing Traffic

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Peering

APAN vBNS NREN ESnet Abilene

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NOC

integration of activities with Abilene NOC will be assuming role of STAR TAP NOC will be assuming role of Eurolink NOC

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Applications

Telemicroscopy– Research Center for Ultra High Voltage Electron Microscopy

(UHVEM), Osaka University and,

– University of California, San Diego National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

– NPACI articles Volume 2, Issue 14; Japanese and U.S. Scientists Succeed in

Trans-Pacific Operation of Ultra High Voltage Electron Microscope http://www.npaci.edu/online/cgi-bin/display.cgi/online/v2.14/telemicroscopy.html

Volume 3, Issue 10; Seeing Submicron Structures from 10,000 Kilometers: Trans-Pacific Microscopy Enabled by International Advanced Networks

http://www.npaci.edu/online/cgi-bin/display.cgi/online/v3.10/telemicroscopy.html

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Activities

iGrid - SuperComputing’98, Orlando, Florida, Nov 7-13, 1998

– An international collaborative project to demonstrate

next-generation network-based research and education

applications that depend on emerging services such as

resource control and reservation, new protocols, and high

bandwidth global grids.

– http://www.transpac.org/documents/981111_igridapps.pdf

– http://www.transpac.org/documents/980217_igrid.pdf

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Activities

GOIN’99– Demonstrations of earth observation applications for the

Global Observation Information Network (GOIN) 1999

Plenary and Workshops in Honolulu during the week of

March 22-26, 1999.

APAN

TransPAC

DREN

HIC

vBNS

STARTAP

GSFCDISSTRMMCIP

University of Hawaii (Conference Center)

GOIN 99 DEMONSTRATIONSEROS Data Center

IGBPUNEP/GRIDEORC

DISS

SiteExperiment

Network

NISN

Oregon State UniversitySeaWinds

EOCTeam Collaboration

CIPTRMM

KAISTTeam CollaborationDisaster Warning

AITTeam Collaboration

SEAStart RCTeam Collaboration

NGDCDisaster Warning

D.Chow10/30/98

JPLTRMM

NREN

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Activities

I2 QBone http://www.internet2.edu/qos/qbone

– an interdomain testbed for differentiated services (DiffServ)

that seeks to provide the higher-education community with

end-to-end services in support of emerging advanced

networked applications.

– lead and follow IETF DiffServ standards work

– 13 QBone projects: 4 international, 3 US backbone, 6 GigaPoP and 10 campus

– APAN / TransPAC are members of a Joint Project organized

by the International Center for Advanced Internet Research

(iCAIR) http://www.transpac.org/documents/QBone-proposal.pdf

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Activities

I2 QBone - iCAIR Joint Proposal Participants– APAN - Asia Pacific Advanced Network– CTIT - Centre for Telematics and Information Tech., U of Twente– Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois, Chicago– IBM Thomas Watson Research Center– iCAIR/Northwestern University– Indiana University– KDD - Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co. Ltd.– Korea Telecom– MREN - Metropolitan Research and Education Network– Nanyang Technological University– National University of Singapore– SingAREN– STARTAP– SURFnet– TransPAC

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Activities

iCAIR Joint Proposal based on:– streaming digital video - I2 DVN

persistent infrastructure to provide high-quality digital video services in the Internet2 community

live and stored content IBM VideoCharger technology multicast MPEG1 and MPEG2 at data rates up to 8 Mbps directory services large file systems caching and replication requirement for QoS

– teleImmersion based on prior STAR TAP TeleImmersion Experiments between EVL

and National University of Singapore

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Activities

I2 Digital Video Network– organized by iCAIR

– “establish a national, higher education video network service

to provide capabilities to support scalable and easy-to-use

applications to deliver live or stored streaming and

interactive high-quality digital video”

– initial application is multicast streamed MPEG1/2 using

Videocharger technology

– KDD and Indiana University to install video servers

– http://www.i2dvn.org

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User Services

Contacts

JP: Hiroyuki Okano <hokano@tokyo.jst.go.jp>

AU: Markus Buchhorn <markus@acsys.anu.edu.au>

KR: Prof Yong-Jin Park <park@hyuee.hanyang.ac.kr>

SG: Dr. Francis Lee <ebslee@ntu.edu.sg>

US: Dr. Donald F. McMullen <mcmullen@indiana.edu>

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Testbeds

Cache– Hyunchul Kim of KAIST testing data transfer performance as

first step of Large Object Caching/Replication project

Multicast / MBone– finalize configurations for multicast during IWS’99

IPv6– WIDE / vBNS and WIDE / ESnet peering up via distinct

TransPAC ATM PVC

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What’s Coming Up?

IU HPNAP program

QoS testbed

International participation in I2 DSI

IU DLI2 proposal... Waseda Univ. as satellite site