STAR TAP Technical Advisory Committee IU NOC

1. STAR TAP Technical Advisory CommitteeIU NOC San Jose 22 June 1999 Michael McRobbie <mcrobbie@ovpit.ucs.indiana.edu> Doug Pearson <dodpears@indiana.edu> http://www.transpac.org

2. NOCs • Current • TransPAC operations/engineering • Abilene operations/engineering • IU networks operations/engineering • Developing • STAR TAP operations • Eurolink operations STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

3. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

4. Tools - Current • standards, e.g. ping, traceroute, ... • MRTG • accounts on far-end hosts • mping • pathchar • OC3mon (NLANR system) • Surveyor at APAN exchange points STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

5. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

6. Tools - Development • TACACS access control to routers and switches • rights controls for NOC, local and peer network engineers • logs configuration changes STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

7. Tools - Development • configuration management tools • archiving of router/switch configurations • automated differences report of router/switch configurations STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

8. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

9. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

12. BGP reporting tool • multicast monitoring STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

13. APAN Australia Robin Stanton Markus Buchhorn Japan Shigeki Goto (Co-Chair) Kazunori Konishi Korea Yong-Jin Park Kyungpyo Hong Singapore Francis Lee Tham Chen Khong APAN Chair Kilnam Chon Tokyo XP Akira Kato Management Liaison Hiromasa Kaneko United States Indiana University Michael McRobbie (Co-Chair) Doug Pearson Steve Wallace Jim Williams Rick McMullen Dennis Gannon Karen Adams replacement for Allen Robel AT&T To be determined STAR TAP Linda Winkler Management Liaison Steve Goldstein TransPAC Management Committee STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

14. 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. STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

16. 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. STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

17. TransPAC Utilization GREEN ### Input Transmission Rate BLUE ### Output Transmission Rate DARK GREEN### Maximal 5 Minute Incoming Traffic MAGENTA### Maximal 5 Minute Outgoing Traffic STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

18. Peering • APAN • vBNS • NREN • ESnet • Abilene STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

19. NOC • integration of activities with Abilene NOC • will be assuming role of STAR TAP NOC • will be assuming role of Eurolink NOC STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

21. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

22. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

23. 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. STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

24. GOIN 99 DEMONSTRATIONS AIT Team Collaboration EROS Data Center IGBP EORC UNEP/GRID DISS APAN JPL TRMM EOC NREN TransPAC Team Collaboration CIP GSFC TRMM DISS TRMM CIP NISN STARTAP KAIST Team Collaboration Disaster Warning NGDC SEAStart RC vBNS Disaster Warning Team Collaboration DREN Oregon State University SeaWinds HIC University of Hawaii (Conference Center) Network Site Experiment D.Chow 10/30/98

25. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

26. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

27. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

28. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

29. 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> STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

30. 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 STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting

31. What’s Coming Up? • IU HPNAP program • QoS testbed • International participation in I2 DSI • IU DLI2 proposal... Waseda Univ. as satellite site STAR TAP International Advisory Committee Meeting