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How High Performance Ethernet Plays in RONs, GigaPOPs & Grids
Internet2 Member MeetingSept 20, 2005
www.force10networks.com
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Speakers Today
Brian Savory– Southern Light Rail (SLR) - Exec. Director– Southern Crossroads (SOX) GigaPOP – Georgia Tech
Matt Davy – Indiana GigaPOP - Chief Network Eng.– I-Light Optical Fiber Initiative– Indiana University & The Global NOC
Debbie Montano– Force10 Networks, Dir. of Research &
Education Alliances– [email protected]
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Ethernet has an Essential Role
Even with optical networking & new network designs on the rise, Ethernet - GigE / 10 GigE - has an essential role to play in network architectures of:– Regional Optical Networks (RONs)– GigaPOPs (state/regional education advanced networks)– Grids/Clusters.
High Performance Ethernet plays into new network designs and service definitions and offerings for RONs, GigaPOPs and Grids – will be discussed today.
Ethernet is continuing to grow and take over!– LANs and campuses– Metro Ethernet– Ethernet on the Wide Area Networks (WAN), both for traditional
carriers and R&E networks!– Grids / Clusters / Supercomputers– New support for: WAN PHY, High Densities (90-port card), etc.
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Grid example: TeraGrid
TeraGrid: Impressive National Resource
2/3rds (+) of TeraGrid computing facilities using high performance ethernet -- Force10 E-series switch/routers -- for interconnect to users/WAN.
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Grids / Clusters
System Interconnects– CPU-to-CPU: Inter-processor
Communication (IPC)– Management Network– I/O to users, outside world
(campus, LAN, WAN)– Storage, servers & storage
subsystems
IPC Interconnect Technology – GigE now #1– Top 500 Supercomputers– Ethernet Rapid Growth– Favored in Clusters
Other System Interconnection– Major reliance on Ethernet
Type 2004 2005
Ethernet 35.2% 42.4% Myrinet 38.6% 28.2%
SP Switch 9.2% 9.0%
NUM Alink 3.4% 4.2%
Crossbar 4.6% 4.2%
Proprietary 3.4%
Infiniband 2.2% 3.2%
Quadrics 4.0% 2.6%
Other 2.8% 2.8% -
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CERN Deploys Force10
Announced yesterday – 9/19/2005 CERN will deploy the TeraScale E-Series family
of switch/routers as the foundation of its new 2.4 Terabit per second (Tbps) high performance grid computing farm
The TeraScale E-Series will connect more than 8,000 processors and storage devices
Also provides the first intercontinental 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN links in a production network
Force10 TeraScale E-Series also will provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to CERN's multiple campus-based experiments, which are similar to individual computing clusters
CERN was looking for a partner that could provide and support a very high performance networking solution – selected Force10.
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RONs, GigaPOPs & Ethernet
Regional Optical Networks (RONs) growing– Using existing fiber or laying fiber– More ownership of fiber– More dedicated lambdas deployed– But that’s not the end of the story…
Ethernet – 1 GigE / 10 GigE– Layer 2 service– Sub-divide and share those hefty lambdas– Access to multiple networks & projects on 1 lambda– Dynamic control of paths and interconnects
GigaPOPs embracing more Ethernet / Layer 2 services
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New Architectures: HOPI
Abilene Abilene NetworkNetwork
Abilene core routerAbilene core router
Force10 E600 Force10 E600 Switch/RouterSwitch/Router
NLR OpticalNLR OpticalTerminalTerminal
Abilene Abilene NetworkNetwork
NLR 10 GigE NLR 10 GigE LambdaLambda
OPTICALOPTICAL
PACKETPACKET
NLR OpticalNLR OpticalTerminalTerminal
OpticalOpticalCrossCross
ConnectConnect
10 GigE Backbone10 GigE Backbone
ControlControlMeasurementMeasurementSupportSupportOOBOOB
HOPI NodeHOPI Node
Regional Regional Optical Optical
Network (RON)Network (RON)
GigaPOPGigaPOP GigaPOPGigaPOP
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Force10 ParticipationInternet2 HOPI Project
HOPI - Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure
Examining a hybrid of shared IP packet switching and dynamically provisioned optical lambdas
Modeling scaleable next-generation networks
Force10 Ethernet switch, 10 GigE ports
Dynamic Control of Ethernet VLANs to allocate and configure network paths
Internet2 Corporate Partner & HOPI project partner
Five E600 switch/routers at HOPI nodes in Los Angeles, DC, Chicago, Seattle & New York
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Force10 Networks, IncLeaders in 10 GbE Switching & Routing
Founded in 1999, Privately Held
First to ship line-rate 10 GbE switching & routing
Pioneered new switch/router architecture providing best-in-class resiliency and density, simplifying network topologies
Customer base spans academic/research, data center, enterprise and service provider
Fastest growing 10 GbE vendor, 92% in 1H04
April 2005: TeraScale E300 switch/router named winner of the Networking Infrastructure category for eWEEK's Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program.
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TeraScale E-SeriesA New Generation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Industry’s best density per chassis– 672 LINE-RATE GbE ports – 56 LINE-RATE 10 GbE ports
Driving down price/port!– First LINE-RATE 48-port GbE line card &
LINE-RATE 4-port 10 GbE line card Industry’s best performance
– First true Terabit/second switch/router processing 1 billion packets per second
Industry’s most scalable resiliency– ZERO packet loss hitless failover at
Terabit data rates Industry’s most scalable security
– No performance degradation with 1 million ACLs
Investment protection for 100 GbE
E1200
E600E300
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Force10 Firsts…
Apr2002Apr2002
FirstLine-Rate336 GbE
PortsDemo
FirstLine-Rate336 GbE
PortsDemo
Nov2003Nov2003
FirstPublic ZeroPacket Loss
HitlessFailoverDemo
FirstPublic ZeroPacket Loss
HitlessFailoverDemo
Jan2002Jan2002
FirstLine-Rate10 GbESystemShippedE1200
FirstLine-Rate10 GbESystemShippedE1200
Oct2002Oct
2002
FirstLine-Rate10 GbE
Mid-SizeSystemShipped
E600
FirstLine-Rate10 GbE
Mid-SizeSystemShipped
E600
Nov2003Nov2003
FirstLine-Rate10 GbE
Compact- Size
SystemShipped
E300
FirstLine-Rate10 GbE
Compact- Size
SystemShipped
E300
Sept2004Sept2004
FirstLine-Rate 672 GbE / 56 – 10
GbE Ports
FirstLine-Rate 672 GbE / 56 – 10
GbE Ports
First48 GbE x 10 GbE
Purpose Built
Data Center Switch
First48 GbE x 10 GbE
Purpose Built
Data Center Switch
March2005
March2005
April2005April2005
First>1200 GbE
Ports Per Chassis
First>1200 GbE
Ports Per Chassis
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Thank You
