Fundació i2CATFundació i2CAT

Barcelona, 2008

Recerca i Innovació en XarxaRecerca i Innovació en Xarxa

Fundació i2CAT

i2CAT is a non for profit Foundation for

Research & Innovation on

Next Generation Internet

Objectives

The i2CAT Foundation is a collaborative platform for the research and innovation

The i2CAT key model is based on the collaboration between the public, private sectors and the academic environment, setting up an innovative Triple Helix model (Loet Leydesdorff) in the Information and Communication Technologies.

The i2CAT Foundation & the University

The Foundation integrates 13 research groups from the three Catalan universities that are on the i2CAT Foundation patronate board.

i2CAT’s Board

The board is composed by 5 public institutions, 3 universities and 9 private companies from the telecommunications and media sector.

Main research lines

i2CAT’s Clusters

The innovation projects are developed within a cluster organization framework, involving companies and institutions who perform their activity within the same sector or share innovation goals.

Experimental research platforms

The i2CAT Foundation provides an experimental research infrastructure to support R&D&I projects. It is based on a distributed research and innovation lab, which interconnects main public and private research institutions and universities.

• Advanced Multimedia Experimental Platform

• Optical Experimental Network Platform

• IP Experimental Network Platform

Connected institutions at the NOC

Core optical nodes

Optical experimental Infrastructure

IP experimental Infrastructure

Multimedia Experimental Plataform

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CanadaNetherlandGermany

Barcelona

Set-up examples

Phosphorus

1.5Gbps HDSDI testbed

i2CAT’s Connectivity

Research – TRILOGY (fuTuRe Internet technoLOGY)

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PHOSPHORUS (FP6) Project. Network Tech.

Objective

Provide control and provisioning systems for the establishment of end-to-end services, under demand and in a multi domain approach.

Trate the network infrastructure as a grid resource.

FEDERICA (FP7) Project. Network Tech.

Objective Deploy at European scale an experimental infrastructure for the furture internet researchers, independent

of the service infrastructure of GÉANT2 (this initiative is similar to the GENI approach).

Principles of the experimental FEDERICA infrastructure Create a neutral and agnostic infrastructure. Create slices. An slice is a set of (virtual) network and computational resources Give to the user the complete control of an slice, in order to allow the researcher to experiment with any

type of protocol and application.

Inocybe.ca - i2cat.cat - crc.ca - iaasframework.com

OPTICAL NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR (optical network manager, infrastructure provider): Partition your infrastructure and decide what users can control what resources The Resource Management Center allows you to monitor which users are using which parts of your network and, at the

same time, manage and control your network as a traditional NMS Untagged Ethernet, TDM (SONET and SDH), WDM and Fiber technologies supported

APN ADMINISTRATOR (infrastructure integrator, service provider): Get access to the control of various infrastructure resources (optical switches, links) from several network providers Integrate the infrastructure resources into your management domain and provide services to yourself or to your end

users

END USER (human, network enabled application): Access the bandwidth on demand service to create end to end circuit advance reservations Create preconfigured network scenarios that can be put in place when invoked Make your applications interact with the network through the Argia Web Service APIs

Resource List Editor Physical Network Editor

ARGIA: IaaS for optical networksDELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE TO OPTICAL NETWORKS

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Argia current status

Virtualize Link Wizard

End to End Circuit Reservation GUI

Supported equipment:•Nortel OME 6500, Nortel HDXc, Nortel OPTera Metro 5200.

•Cisco ONS 15454, Cisco ONS 15600 (under development)

• Wonesys Proteus ROADM• Calient Diamondwave PXC (under development)

Argia Deployment:•CANARIE: Evaluating it for the production network.

•CANARIE, Starlight: for the HPDMnet project• CRC, i2cat: for the PHOSPHORUS project• Ongoing conversations with PacificWave, KRLight,

Parallel network plaforms sharing physical susbstrates

CONFIGURE PHYSICAL AND LOGICAL ROUTERS The MANTICORE Resource Management Center allows network administrators and users to configure their physical and logical routers

SHARE RESOURCES The same physical network substrate can be partitioned into several resources (e.g. logical routers) that can be controlled by different users.

CREATE LOGICAL IP NETWORKS Create logical IP Networks as resources and configure the internal (OSPF, RIP, iBGP, static) and external routing (eBGP, static)

PEER WITH OTHER NETWORKS Different users can configure their logical IP Networks in order to peer with each other , by using the BGP protocol or by adding static routes

heanet.ie - i2cat.cat - iaasframework.com - rediris.es - nordu.net - juniper.net - entel.upc.edu

Virtualize Interface Wizard

Resource List Editor

Physical Network Editor

BGP Configuration Wizard

The MANTICORE project RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CENTER FOR LOGICAL IP NETWORKS

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DEMO SCENARIOPhysical Network Substrate

• 1 Physical Router (Juniper M7i), HEAnet Domain

Short Storyboard• HEAnet admin:

• Creates five logical routers (LRs)• Creates links between LRs• Creates two IP Networks: AS10 and AS1• Adds three LRs to AS1 and one to AS10• Configures OSPF, iBGP and eBGP in AS1• Adds a static route between AS10 and AS1• Exports one LR to i2cat

• i2cat admin:• Creates an IP network (AS20) and adds the LR

received from HEAnet• Configures eBGP in AS 20

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OPENsphere is the first open source implementation of IPsphere. The OPENsphere will be deployed at the CONTENTsphere field trial. For this field trial an orchestration of an end-to-end connection with QoS requirements will be showcased.

User request will be traduced by SMS Admin as a service script ( where have been chosen a set of connectivity elements that performs the entirely path requested by user) . This script will be executed by SMS Parent invoking several operations to different SMS Child instances. Each SMS Child involved will operate with the Management System that manages its current infrastructure (configuring and queering its devices).

IPsphere : Framework that allows the end user to compose and manage his own network, selecting and orchestrating several resources with QoS requirements from different Providers.

Providers (Element Owners) publishes the elements (resources) that can be used by the End-Users in order to fulfill his requirements.

• Problematic:– Multiple Sites Require High Performance / High Volume / High Definition Digital Media Streaming Simultaneously Among All Locations (Multi-Point to Multi-Point)– Traditional L3 Techniques Cannot Be Used for Many Types of High

Definition Media– These Techniques Were Designed for Many Small Information Flows –

Not for Large Scale Flows.

• Solutions:– To form a Consortium of Research Centres from Around the World (or

Cooperative Partnership)– To Explore the Key Issues Related to the Challenges and Opportunities

Related to Using LightPaths for High Performance Digital Media (HPDM)

HPDMnet project and the GLIF Infrastructure

MOTIVATION:

HPDMnet Demos @ GLIF September 2007 (Prague) @ echallenges October 2007 (Amsterdam, Ottawa)

@ ArtFutura October 2007 (Barcelona) @ SuperComputing Nov. 2007 (Reno, Nevada)

• ARGIA* deployed at some GOLEs, controlling GLIF infrastructure (access to network element control and management):– Argia deployed at CANARIE– Argia deployed at STARLIGHT– Ongoing conversations to deploy Argia at the PacificWAVE

Seattle GOLE (for a demo at the GLIF meeting 2008)– Ongoing conversations do deploy Argia at the KOREALIGHT

GOLE

• Access to Layer 1 circuits:– Experimental test and validation of optical multicast technologies

to transport high performance digital media.

* ARGIA is still being developed and enhanced (Inocybe –start-up-, CRC, i2CAT). The network is also used to experiment and develop the product towards a commercial version

ARGIA/HPDMnet at GLIF (added value)

Tele-Ictus Project. e-health

FURIA Project. Audiovisual

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Main activity within i2CAT: development of a physical layer DVB-T2 (High Definition version of TDT) simulator

Anella Cultural Project. Audiovisual

It aims to build a robust infrastructure for eCulture in Catalonia, offering to the cultural community composed by different cities the chance to be connected by means of a experimental media network to share live cultural events.

Linguamon Project. Audiovisual

This portal gathers together the services offered by the media channel of the ‘Casa de les Llengües’ and allow the sharing and management of media resources in diferent languages (advanced searches, videoforums, chats, subtitles,…). It also provides different services that allow the interaction in real time of people placed on different locations

Catlab Project. Open Innovation

Objectives:

- Design, develop and test a Living Labs network connected to the EnoLL.- Generate an open innovation project (methodology), based on network innovation to enhance the competitive and Catalan cohesion.

It is an initiative sponsored by the Society and information Telecommunications Secretary.

Industrial ring. Industry

• Deployment of an advanced service infrastructure for the automobile industry

• Distributed experimental network for the automobile design research

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Examples of i2CAT International Demonstrations with i2CAT/RedIRIS/GÉANT

i2CAT Evolution

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