BT’s view on research networking

Bruno Tideman

Agenda

• BT’s organization / capabilities

• Current research networks

• Market developments

– Building blocks

• Summary

Organization

B T W h o lesa leN etwork opera tion s

B T Ign iteEurope m ulti site corpora te s

B T O pen wo rldU K consum er ISP

B T Exact T echn o lo g iesR & D

B T Reta ilU K C onsum ers, SM E

B T G rou p p lc

Our Global Capabilities

Global reach through BT-owned infrastructure and partnerships with local/regional telcos

Delivering service to 400+ cities in more than 100 countries

Pan-European Fibre Network

Ring topology with multiple redundant connections

Core backbone running at speeds up to 10 Gbit/s

Over 200,000 customers connected

GigaPort Research Network

• Semi collapsed backbone in Amsterdam 80Gbs (darkfibers)

• 29 DWDM 10Gbs lambda’s (darkfiber local loops)

• 14 managed darkfibers

Cambridge

Adastr

alPark

Colchester

Norwich

BT Tower

BT Centre

HIGH TECHNOLOGY CORRIDORCAMBRIDGE

IPSWICH

Essex Uni

Birmingham

Science Park

Cambridge UniMicrosoft

Global Switch

UCL

NICAngel Centre

Europe & Farland Network

US,AT&T

Hyatt Hotel

ICC

LEANet WAN Research NetworkLEANet WAN Research Network

Market developments

Commercial vs. Research • QoS

• Bandwidth

• Price

• Availability

• Services

Building blocks

• IPv6

• Managed wavelengths

• Optical CPE

• Global GRID

Other developments

• Business model for research infrastructure, product development and early adopter phases.

• Merging the wider research community with commercial production research networks

• Building high-capacity, scalable data centric networks that are low cost…– Simplifying the network architecture

– Lowering equipment costs

– Lowering operational costs

…and flexible to offer new service opportunities

IP-Optical Internetworking

The simplification of Data Networking

High-Speed Optical NetworkHigh-Speed Optical Network

SONET/SDHSONET/SDH SONET/SDHSONET/SDH

IPIP

IP++IP++

ATMATM

IPIP

OLD NEW

OPTICALINTERNETWORKING

? ?IP++

All Optical Networking

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Summary

• NGI / Global GRID is an emerging market of commercial significance and is still in early definition and research stages.

• Operators should be able to make a profit to create a stable industry.

• Research community can benefit from Optical IP Networking by partnering with operators and vise versa.

“Telegraph charged for WORDS,

Voice charges by the MINUTE,

Data charges for BITS,

Global GRID will charge for CYCLES”.

Discussion?