Thomas A. DeFanti, Maxine BrownPrincipal Investigators, STAR TAP/StarLight

Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren LitvanyiSTAR TAP Engineering

Joe Mambretti, Tim WardStarLight Facilities

STAR TAP and StarLight

• STAR TAP: Premier operational cross-connect of the world's high-performance academic networks 45-622Mb        

• StarLight: Next-generation cutting-edge optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting experimental networks 1-10Gb

• Funded by USA National Science Foundation grants to University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University, and USA Department of Energy support to Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science Division

Who is StarLight?

StarLight is jointly managed and engineered by: • International Center for Advanced Internet

Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University– Joe Mambretti, David Carr and Tim Ward

• Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago– Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh

• Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) , Argonne National Laboratory – Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Caren Litvanyi, Rick

Stevens and Charlie Catlett

What is StarLight?

Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’sChicago downtown campusView from StarLight

StarLight is an experimental optical infrastructure andproving ground for network services optimized forhigh-performance applications

StarLight Infrastructure

StarLight is a large research-friendly co-location facility with space, power and fiber that is being made available to university and national/international network collaborators as a point of presence in Chicago

StarLight Infrastructure

StarLight is a production GigE and trial 10GigE switch/router facility for high-performance access to participating networks

StarLight is Operational

Equipment at StarLight• StarLight equipment installed:

– Cisco 6509 with GigE – IPv6 Router– Juniper M10 (GigE and OC-12 interfaces)– Juniper T640 (on loan from Caltech)– Cisco LS1010 with OC-12 interfaces– Data mining cluster with GigE NICs– Visualization/video server cluster (on

order)• SURFnet’s 12000 GSR• Multiple vendors for 1GigE, 10GigE, DWDM

and Optical Switch/Routing in the future

Commercial Providers @ StarLight

• SBC/Ameritech

• Qwest

• Global Crossing

• AT&T and AT&T Broadband

• Level 3

USA Networks @ StarLight

DoE ESnet

NASA NREN

NSF vBNS+ (coming soon)

UCAID/Internet2 Abilene

Metropolitan Research & EducationNetwork (Midwest GigaPoP)

OMNInet @ StarLight

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The Optical Metro Network Initiative (OMNInet), a 10GigE technology trial by Nortel Networks and SBC/Ameritech with partners Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago and CANARIE/Canada, has one of its collocation points at StarLight.

I-WIRE @ StarLight

I-WIRE, the $7M State of Illinois dark fiber initiative that connects major universities and government laboratories in Illinois, has its hub located at StarLight.

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TeraGrid @ StarLight

TeraGrid, an NSF-funded Major Research Equipment initiative, has its Illinois hub located at StarLight.

NetherLight @ StarLight

Cees de Laat, U Amsterdam@ StarLight, USA

Tom DeFanti, UIC and de Laat @ NetherLight, The Netherlands

The Netherlands (SURFnet) has a 10Gb link to StarLight.

International Research Networks @ StarLight

• SURFnet, The Netherlands• CA*net4, Canada• DataTAG, European Union-funded Trans-Atlantic

Grid 2.5Gb network• NORDUnet, Nordic countries• TransPAC/APAN, Asian-Pacific countries• NaukaNet, Russia• AMPATH, South American countries• CERN, Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva• UK-Light, United Kingdom (planning stages)

StarLight Engineering Partnerships

• Developers of 6TAP, the IPv6 global testbed, notably ESnet and Viagenie (Canadian), have an IPv6 router installed at StarLight

• NLANR works with STAR TAP on network measurement; the NLANR AMP (Active Measurement Platform) is located at STAR TAP

StarLight Middleware Partnerships Forming

• Provide tools and techniques for (university) customer-controlled 10 Gigabit network flows

• Build general control mechanisms from emerging toolkits, such as Globus, for Grid network resource access and allocation services

• Test a range of new tools, such as GMPLS and OBGP, for designing, configuring and managing optical networks and their components

• Create a new generation of tools for appropriate monitoring and measurements at multiple levels

AcknowledgmentsOrganizing Institutions

The Netherlands:Amsterdam Science & Technology CentreGigaPort ProjectSARA Computing and Networking ServicesSURFnetUniversiteit van Amsterdam/ Science Faculty

United States of America:Argonne National Laboratory/ Mathematics and Computer Science Division Indiana University/ Office of the Vice President for Information TechnologyNorthwestern University/ International Center for Advanced Internet ResearchUniversity of Illinois at Chicago/ Electronic Visualization Laboratory

AcknowledgmentsParticipating Organizations

CANARIE

Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF)

Global Grid Forum

Globus Project

GRIDS Center

National Lab for Applied Network Research, Distributed Applications Support Team (NLANR/DAST)

Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA)

TERENA

UCAID/Internet2

University of California, San Diego/ California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]

AcknowledgmentsSponsors

Amsterdam Internet ExchangeAmsterdam Science & Technology CentreCisco Systems, Inc.City of AmsterdamGEOgraphic Network Affiliates–InternationalGigaPort ProjectGlimmerglass NetworksHPIBMJuniper NetworksLevel 3 Communications, Inc.National Computer Facilities (NWO/NCF), NLNational Science Foundation, USARoyal Philips ElectronicsSARA Computing and Networking ServicesStichting FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on MatterStichting HEFStichting SURFSURFnetTyco TelecommunicationsUnilever NVUniversiteit van Amsterdam

StarLight“Bring Us Your Lambdas”

Tom DeFanti, tom@uic.eduwww.startap.net/starlight

StarLight Thanks

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts at the University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202,

EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)

cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance

– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and UIC cost sharing– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and

management• Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering

and planning leadership• NSF/ANIR, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, and Olivier

Martin of CERN for global optical networking leadership; • NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities• UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and their International Transit Network (ITN)• CA*net4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West

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