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Efficient Campus Bandwidth Management at University of Pennsylvania

Learn how the University of Pennsylvania effectively manages its campus bandwidth for Internet and Internet2 access, balancing high outbound demands and diverse user profiles. By implementing innovative techniques with existing infrastructure, the university optimizes bandwidth allocation without additional equipment costs. Discover the step-by-step process, user reactions, and future developments in this successful bandwidth management strategy.

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Efficient Campus Bandwidth Management at University of Pennsylvania

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  1. Deke Kassabian, Sr. Tech. Director <deke@isc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania & The MAGPI GigaPoP May 7, 2002 - Internet2 Members Meeting Campus Bandwidth Management BoF Internet Access Bandwidth Management atThe University of Pennsylvania

  2. University of Pennsylvania network • Large research university in Philadelphia, PA • 22,000 students, 4,000 faculty, 10,000 staff • 48,000 registered IP addresses • 200 switched subnets • Central routing between them and out to Internet and Internet2

  3. University of Pennsylvania network MAGPI GigaPoP Campus Edge Routers Core Switches Campus Core Routers Subnets Bld 1 Bld 2 Bld 3 Res 1 Res 2

  4. MAGPI GigaPoP • Operational since 1997 • Two Locations • Penn Campus and a local carrier hotel • Interconnect via both SONET and GigE • External Connectivity- • Internet2 - OC-12c POS to Abilene • Commodity Internet • UUNET: OC-3 • Cogent: Gigabit Ethernet • Yipes: Gigabit Ethernet (rate limited)

  5. MAGPI GigaPoP • Subscribers currently include • Penn, Lehigh, Princeton • J&J Pharmaceuticals • some PA county school units • A few Penn and Princeton affiliates (don’t get Internet2 access) • Other area universities coming online during summer 2002

  6. Problem Statement • Very high outbound bandwidth demand to the Internet and Internet2 • Demand profile for residential building networks very different from academic and admin building networks

  7. Some alternatives considered • Get more bandwidth • Manage existing bandwidth • Application-port limiting or blocking • Alter priority for some networks • Per-user bit “budgets” • Hard rate limits at wallplate jack • Hard rate limits at campus edge

  8. Why not a QoS Appliance? • Extra equipment - cost, complexity, reliability • Tough to place in highly redundant network with lots of links • Rather not mess with TCP

  9. What we did… • Used our Juniper edge routers to limit outbound bandwidth available based on source address.

  10. Implementation (1 of 3) • Bandwidth limits apply to IP address ranges. • Outbound direction only. Inbound unrestricted. • Using “firewall” filters on Juniper routers. • No limits apply on campus in either direction– users have full line rate.

  11. Implementation (2 of 3) • Two levels of limits apply • (1) Limits for each group of users • (2) An overall limit that applies to total residential traffic

  12. Implementation (3 of 3) • Initial implementation • 4 Mb for use by 256 users (IP addresses) • Next step - 2 Mb for 64 users • Next step 1 Mb for 16 users • Next step 800k for 8 users • Eventual goal: 400k per user (per IP address) • 200 Mb total limit applies for 6000 users

  13. Status • 1,792 address ranges specified on each Juniper router Penn connects to MAGPI gigaPoP • Each range includes exactly 8 IP addresses • Each range gets 800 Kbps, with some burst capacity • Halving the range doubles the number of filters. We’ll need 14,336 ranges (too many!) per router…. • But Juniper promises some efficiencies in later JunOS that will ease this complexity. • Limits today apply to both Internet-bound and Internet2-bound traffic.

  14. End user reaction • Initial concern that the fix would be worse than the problem • Users agreed to participate in testing at each step, and to report results • Most admit that performance for typical activities has improved • Non-residential users see major improvements • Nobody complains anymore

  15. Next steps • Continue to reduce the range of addresses in each bandwidth-limited group • Redesign campus-to-gigaPoP connectivity to allow the limits to apply for commodity Internet only (leaving Internet2 alone)

  16. Conclusion • Penn’s bandwidth management approach works for today’s situation • No extra hardware • No staff time on changing rules • Moving to finer grain control • Exploring approaches to removing Internet2 from limits

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