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Abilene: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know, but Couldn’t Find on the Web Site

Abilene: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know, but Couldn’t Find on the Web Site. Brown Bag Session Heather Bruning, Abilene Program Manager. 13 August 2002. Rule #1: Connectors ARE NOT Dr. Suess characters. SoX. Lorax. MAX. NoX. Internet2 Backbones. Two Internet2 backbone networks:

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Abilene: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know, but Couldn’t Find on the Web Site

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  1. Abilene: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know, but Couldn’t Find on the Web Site Brown Bag Session Heather Bruning, Abilene Program Manager 13 August 2002

  2. Rule #1: Connectors ARE NOT Dr. Suess characters SoX Lorax MAX NoX 8/13/2002

  3. Internet2 Backbones • Two Internet2 backbone networks: • vBNS/vBNS+ Network • very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) supported by NSF • vBNS+ is a follow-on service of WorldCom • Abilene Network • High-performance network developed by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) • Operated under partnership of Qwest Communications, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and Indiana University 8/13/2002

  4. Abilene Focus • Goals • Enabling innovative applications and advanced services not possible over the commercial Internet • Backbone & regional infrastructure provides a vital substrate for the continuing culture of Internet advancement in the university/corporate research sector • Advanced service efforts • Multicast • IPv6 • QoS • Measurement • Security 8/13/2002

  5. Abilene Affiliations • Connectors • Not all are ‘gigaPoPs’ • Membership not required • 17 are members of The Quilt • Participants • Research universities • Corporate and government labs • Sponsored (two types) • Sponsored Participants – individual • Sponsored Education Group Participants (SEGPs) 8/13/2002

  6. Abilene – August 2002 • IP-over-SONET (OC-48c) backbone • 53 direct connections • 4 OC-48c connections • 1 Gigabit Ethernet trial - MREN • 23 connected via at least OC-12c (622 Mbps) • 217 participants – universities & labs • All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico • 15 regional GigaPoPs support ~70% of participants • Expanded access • 52 sponsored participants • 24 state education networks (SEGPs) 8/13/2002

  7. ATM Media Sunset • # of ATM connectors falling: soon 7 of 53 • Sunset date of ATM connections and peerings: July 1, 2003 • $10k one-time connection fee discount for transitioning before 10/1/2002 8/13/2002

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  10. Abilene Cost Recovery Model 8/13/2002

  11. Abilene Access • Primary Participants – research universities and Affiliate/Corporate Member collaboration sites • Sponsored Participants – individual locations And now….. SEGPs: Sponsored Education Group Participants 8/13/2002

  12. SEGP Fundamentals • SEGP status targeted at both developed and emerging state-based education networks • One or more Internet2 University Members in the same state act as sponsor(s) • Connectors take overall fiscal and operational responsibility for the SEGP • Periodic SEGP progress updates to Abilene required (e.g., how are SEGPs implementing advanced applications?) 8/13/2002

  13. Approved SEGPs 8/13/2002

  14. SEGP Inquiries • Alabama • Colorado • Kansas • Kentucky • Nevada • New Jersey • South Carolina • Tennessee • Texas • Utah 8/13/2002

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  16. Upgrade Schedule Overview • Aug/Sep – Ten T640 backbone routers installed • Sep/Oct - First wave  turnup (6-8) • Rest of 2002 - Connector/peer circuits migrated to T640 routers • 2003 – Remaining 10-Gbps ’s activated 8/13/2002

  17. Federal Labs Policy • If no existing connection to national R&E network • Internet2 Affiliate Membership and Abilene Participation as a collaboration site; or • Sponsored Participation with the support of an Internet2 member university • FL/BBs reviewed on case-by-case basis by Steve, Laurie, and Gary 8/13/2002

  18. Projects Underway • Overhaul of Abilene Web site • Abilene contact update email campaign for iMIS database • Entering Abilene financial data into iMIS for fall 2002 invoicing • Soliciting annual and quarterly Sponsored Participation and SEGP reports from Connectors and Participants 8/13/2002

  19. www.internet2.edu

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