aarnet update or what are those crazy aussies up to? winter joint techs, albuquerque 2006
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AARNet Updateor
what are those crazy aussies up to?
Winter Joint Techs, Albuquerque2006
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What have we been doing?
• Rebuilding the AARNet3 backbone• Building an optical network• TEIN2 Project• SXTransPORT in association with
TransLight/PacificWave
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Rebuilding the AARNet3 Backbone• Replace Procket
8812 routers with Juniper M320 routers
• Still need to deploy Juniper M20 routers in smaller POPs
• Still some redundancy to complete
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Building an optical network
• Using dark fibre on the Nextgen Networks footprint, Adelaide to Brisbane via Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney
• Need some construction to reach customers
• To be lit with Cisco ONS15454 and provide Gigabit Ethernet to customers and STM-64c to AARNet3 backbone
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AARNet and TEIN2• Non beneficiary partner of TEIN2
project (an EU initiative)• Improve linkage within Asia and to
Europe• Facilitated better pricing for
westward circuits, but need better cable between Perth and Singapore
• AARNet will provide transit to Seattle as well as access to AARNet (includes USP in Fiji and University of Hawai`i)
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SXTransPORT• Joint initiative of AARNet and Southern
Cross Cable Networks (with some funding support from the Australian Government)
• Dual Trans Pacific STM-64c– Sydney (UTS), Honolulu, Seattle– Sydney (NXG), Mauna Lani, Los Angeles
• Northern path active as layer3 link– Connects to Pacific Wave and the University of
Hawai`i, Manoa– Has AUP similar to Abilene
• Southern path to be optical– Still a work in progress
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Southern Path of SXTransPORT
• GLIF capable• Need Lambda Exchange in LA• One Gigabit Ethernet to backup our
STM-64c to Seattle• Others available to Australian
researchers and facilities, for GLIF or “trade”
• Catalyst for improving connectivity to international Telescope facility at summit of Mauna Kea, Hawai`i
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Next step the Atlantic? :)
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Round trip time v Capacity
• 10Gbps circuits interconnect via Pacific Wave,– 276 ms Sydney to Tokyo
• But lower latency available via smaller circuits such as TEIN2,– 170 ms via Singapore– 215 ms via Honolulu
• How do we select “best” path?• Might use MPLS TE but it’s manual
to work out which path is “best”
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What’s next?
• IPv6 Unicast– Encourage customers to connect
• IPv6 Multicast– Although is anyone listening?
• Expand footprint even further!– Use Australia Japan Cable?
• Instrument the network– QoS performance– Routing performance
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Questions?
• Contact details:• Mark Prior
Chief Technology [email protected]