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Passive Measurementson the Abilene

Jörg Micheel

<joerg@nlanr.net>

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Updates since Ohio (July ’04)

• Completion of Indianapolis router instrumentation (Nov’04 – Feb’05)

• Real time analysis application supporting operational and research requirements

• Operational data analysis on IPLS-CHIN since December 2004 (live demo)

• lambdaMON prototyping at CENIC/NLR• Passive monitoring getting closer to your

network and users – watch this space

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IPLS router instrumentation

• All 12 links instrumented• Eight machines: three OC192MONs, one

OC48MON, one 2OC12MON, one 2OC3MON, two 2GIGEMON, CDMA time synchronization via Praecis Ct and TDS-24

• Planned to stay there for the lifetime of the backbone

• Took 2 ½ years of planning and preparation• Excellent support from Internet2 and Indiana

GlobalNOC• Platform for a variety of research works

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Network configurationLink Fiber Wavelength Framing Splitter Ratio %In (dBm) Out (dBm) M1 (dBm) M2 (dBm) MachineKSCY SM 1310 OC192c PoS 96142-20 80/20 -5.0 -2.6 -7.0 -9.3 ipls-kscyCHIN SM 1310 OC192c PoS 96142-20 80/20 -12.1 -1.3 -5.9 -16.0 ipls-chicATLA SM 1310 OC192c PoS 96142-20 80/20 -2.5 ipls-atlaOARnet SM 1310 OC48c PoS 96142-30 70/30 -13.1 -6.1 -11.3 -18.5 ipls-oarnNorthern Lights SM 1310 OC12c 96142-30 70/30 -15.7 -11.2 -18.0 -16.5 ipls-nortMerit SM 1310 OC12c 96142-30 70/30 -12.1 -10.7 -16.5 -17.9 ipls-nortLouisville SM 1310 OC3c 96142-30 70/30 -14.5 -11.9 -16.5 -19.8 ipls-louiIPv6 SM 1310 OC3c 96142-30 70/30 -10.9 -10.8 -17.5 -16.3 ipls-louiNMS1 MM 850 GigE SX 96042-G-30 70/30 -8.5 -7.5 -11.7 -12.4 ipls-nms1NMS2 MM 850 GigE SX 96042-G-30 70/30 -7.5 -7.0 -14.5 -13.1 ipls-nms1RackLAN MM 850 GigE SX 96042-G-30 70/30 -5.4 -7.2 -12.4 -12.5 ipls-rackIndy GigaPOP SM 1310 GigE LX 96204 n.a. -11.6 -9.2 -18.2 -17.4 ipls-rack

ATLA OC48c SM 1310 OC48c PoS 96142-20 80/20 -5.3 -5.5 -12.5 -13.1

http://pma.nlanr.net/Sites/ipls-200411/

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Real Time Analysis

• Collaborative effort with University of Leipzig, Germany• Computing about one dozen parameters in real time at

line rate, at 10 Gigabit links• Proprietary light weight protocol for data transfer across

the network to central archive• RRD based storage/retrieval• Web based user interface, intervals of 5 minutes to one

year• Optional JAVA interface• Experimental plug-ins: TCP state monitoring, P2P traffic

measurements, IPv6 support, Abilene NMS support• Stress tests during Supercomputing 2004• Operational trials using IPLS-CHIN since December ‘04

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Real time during SC’04 (1)

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Real time during SC’04 (2)

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lambdaMON prototyping (1)

• Joint engagement with CENIC and National LambdaRail to build passive monitoring instrumentation for DWDM optical networks

• Phase 1 (lab tests) done in October 2004 — successful

• Phase 2 (field trial) scheduled for March 2005 at the CENIC Los Angeles node

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lambdaMON prototyping (2)

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Passive Internet Analysis Nodes

• Based on the idea of POP instrumentation

• Cost effective reconfigurable distributed passive monitoring facility

• Service benefits to all US research networks – near ubiquitous

• Please come and talk to us if you are interested in collaborating!

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Acknowledgements

• Matt Zekauskas, Rick Summerhill, Internet2

• Caroline Carver, John Hicks, Indiana GlobalNOC

• Klaus Degner, Klaus Mochalski, University of Leipzig, Germany

• Dave Reese, Darrell Newcomb, CENIC

• Jim Hale, NLANR/MNA, SDSC/UCSD

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References

• http://pma.nlanr.net/Sites/ipls-200411/

• http://pma.nlanr.net/Special/

• http://pma.nlanr.net/Special/sc04rt.html

• http://pma.nlanr.net/lambdamon.html