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October 2012 Rob Evans Jeremy Sharp
Janet6 online briefing
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1. Procurement and project update Jeremy Sharp Head of Strategic Technologies, Janet 2. Infrastructure design Rob Evans Chief Technical Advisor, Janet 3. Questions and Answers Jeremy Sharp & Rob Evans will be joined by Neil Shewry, Janet6 Project Manager
Janet6 update: Topics
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Summary to date
• Janet6: Project to replace the UK wide Janet backbone, SuperJanet5
Requirements gathering & analysis
2011
Procurement • Fibre infrastructure • Optical transmission equipment
Oct 2011 to Sept 2012
Rollout Sept 2012 to April 2013
Transition SJ5 to J6 May 2013 to July 2013
SJ5 ‘turned-off ’ Oct 2013
SuperJanet5: 2006 to 2013
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• Fibre infrastructure contract signed: 31st July 2012
• Scottish & Southern Energy Telecoms (SSET) • 10 year contract • £30M
• Optical transmission contract signed: 6th September 2012
• Ciena Inc. • Supply and 5 years support agreement • £12.8M
Janet6 status – Procurement phase complete
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• To deliver a highly reliable and secure network – Careful design choices – Carrier class network equipment & infrastructure – Strict SLA’s – Management by Janet NOC
• To provide a network that is flexible in meeting future demand – Design enable capacity scaling at controllable cost
• To provide a network that is more agile in dealing with change – Management by Janet NOC – Close working relationship with industry partners
Meeting your requirements
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Infrastructure design
Rob Evans Chief Technical Advisor, Janet
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Infrastructure Design: Fibre
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Backbone Fibre
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Backbone Fibre
• New East-West link between Erdington (Birmingham) and Lowdham (Leicester) – More resilience – Shorter reroutes in case of failure
• Different topology in the south – Single loop of fibre through London and Bristol
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Backbone and Regional Networks
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Backbone and Regional Fibre
• Same principle of two diverse fibre pairs to each region. • Fewer collector arcs picking up multiple regions • All fibre is G.652
– Older specification than G.655, but works better with modern transmission systems
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I could go into more detail…
…but how good is your eyesight?
• >5,700km fibre • 78 PoPs with optical
equipment • 232km unamplified
subsea span • 119km unamplified land
span • 28 100GE circuits • 130 10GE circuits
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Backbone Points of Presence
• Vacating the Verizon Business PoPs – Except for small presence in Glasgow and Reading due to Scottish
Schools’ network and TVN • Existing Provider-Neutral PoPs
– Telehouse North – Telecity Harbour Exchange – Telecity Manchester
• Moves onto the backbone – Scolocate
• Moves onto the fibre backbone (more later)
• New Provider-Neutral PoPs – Telecity Powergate (West London) – Telehouse West – Leeds (AQL, Salem Church)
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Other Points of Presence
• Transmission PoPs – Couple of racks, multiplex wavelengths from regional fibres onto the
backbone – Provided by SSET
• In-Line Amplifier PoPs – Single rack, small amplifier shelf – Provided by SSET
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PoP Issues
• Power – we need lots of it – Routers have two Power Entry Modules (PEMs) – Each PEM requires six -48V DC feeds with 60A breakers – 2-4kW more for the transmission equipment – Lightpath routers, management routers and switches – Electrical guys don’t seem to like aggregating capacity as easily as
router guys
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Infrastructure Design: Transmission
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Ciena 6500
• ROADM – Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop
Multiplexer • Wavelength Selective Switch
– Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) • Diffraction grating • Lens • Servo-actuated mirrors
– 2:1 or 9:1 modules allow incoming DWDM channels to be split over 2 or 9 outgoing fibres
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All mirrors and no smoke (unless it breaks)
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Other components…
• Transponder – Takes 100GE from router and converts it to DWDM 100Gbit/s signal
• Muxponder – Carries, e.g., multiple 10GE circuits on 40 or 100Gbit/s signal
• Line-side card – Dual polarisation quadrature phase shift keying – >100Gbit/s (including framing) within 50GHz of optical spectrum
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Transmission Design: Dispersion Compensation
• Dispersion Compensation or not? – Uses ‘doped’ fibre to compensate for chromatic dispersion – Used on SJ5 and most existing DWDM networks
• ‘Coherent’ receivers for higher-speed circuits are adversely affected by the presence of dispersion compensation
• Omit dispersion compensation and it is hard to carry lower speed signals – Limited reach – Guard bands
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Transmission Design: Dispersion Compensation
• Chose to drop dispersion compensation – No native 10GE transmission – All 10GE circuits are carried over 40Gbit/s or 100Gbit/s carriers – Very few parts of the network where we needed just one or two
10GE circuits – Maximises reach of 40Gbit/s and 100Gbit/s circuits
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Transmission Design: OTN Switching
• A bit like SDH (or ATM?)… – Build optical capacity between nodes – Put lower-speed circuits into OTN containers – Switch them between points on the network
• Discussed during competitive dialogue – Not available from a wide range of shortlisted suppliers – Expensive – Difficult to see the use when we also have the Janet Lightpath
(EoMPLS) layer
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Transmission Design: ‘Thin’ optical layer
• Existing transmission systems convert optical signal received from router to electrical, then reconvert it to optical again to transmit. – Each circuit needs four “client side” optics (XFPs, CFPs), plus the
transmission-side lasers
• If router could transmit long-haul signal directly, transmission equipment just needs to balance levels and multiplex. – Should be cheaper – Move framing, FEC (error correction) and encoding to router
interfaces • Starting to arrive for 10G • Not there for 100G
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IP topology
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IP topology
• Remember that change in PoPs? – Moving routers from PoP to PoP whilst still maintaining a service
would have been … challenging. – One-night migration for all of Janet?
• Need to upgrade from Juniper T-1600 to T-4000 – Higher port density
• 2x100GE per slot • 24x10GE per slot
– Significantly lower per-port 100GE price • New chassis and hand old ones back after migration
– Except ‘fixed’ PoPs (Telecities, Telehouses) • IP, IPv6, Unicast, Multicast • Looking at L2VPNs
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IP topology
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Lightpath Topology
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Lightpath topology
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Lightpath changes
• Increase the bandwidth between the backbone nodes to 100GE – If client optics are in place, allows us to carry 10GE lightpath circuits
with only software configuration on the core. • Topology reflects what is currently required
– If there is a need for lightpaths elsewhere, talk to us!
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Questions & Answers
• Jeremy Shar p • Rob Evans • Neil Shewry