I-WIRE Background• State Funded Infrastructure to

support Networking and Applications Research

• $6.5M Total Funding• $4M FY00-01 (in hand)

• $2.5M FY02 (approved 1-June-01)

• Possible add’l $1M in FY03-5

• Application Driven• Access Grid: Telepresence & Media

• Computational Grids: Internet Computing

• Data Grids: Information Analysis

• New Technologies Proving Ground• Optical Switching

• Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

• Ultra-High Speed SONET

• Wireless

• Advanced middleware infrastructure

UIC

ANL

NCSA/UIUC

UC

NU / Starlight

Star Tap

IIT

Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

1 km

I-WIRE Layers 0 & 1

UIUC/NCSA

James R. Thompson Ctr

Optical Amplifier

DWDM equipment

StarlightNU @ 710 N. Lake Shore

Carrier POP

37 miles

53 miles

52 miles

17 miles

63 miles

58 miles

46 miles

39 miles

33 miles

41 miles

45 miles

27 miles

45 miles

23 miles

ANL

Existing

4q 2001

3q 2001

37 miles

St. Louis GigaPOP900 N. Walnut

Star Tap

UIC

IIT

UC

Next Steps:- Have identified fiber to reach Fermi & potentially Northwestern

Evanston campus- Several options for fiber to Indianapolis- 10 GbE to each I-WIRE campus- 4x 10 GbE to ANL and NCSA for proposed Distributed

Terascale Facility (partnership with Qwest)

Metro Fiber Costs$25 to $90 per foot

Cornfield Fiber$700-1800/strand-mile

Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

I-WIRE Layers 2 & 3

455 N. CityfrontMcLeodUSA

Rantoul

McLeodUSAKankakee

111 N. Canal

151 N. Michigan

StarlightNU - 710 N. Lake Shore

6 x 10GbE

CienaCoreStream

DTF HubSwitch/Router

ANL DTFBorder

Switch/Router

ANLBorderRouter

NCSA DTFBorder

Switch/Router

NCSABorderRouter

UIC BorderRouter

IIT BorderRouter

UC BorderRouter

StarlightRouterStarlight

Router

StarlightRouterStarlight

Router

OA

OA

Proposed DTFInterconnect(4 x 10GbE)

Argonne NCSA/UIUC UC IIT UIC

Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

DWDM

DWDM DWDM

I-WIREHub

I-WIREHub