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Presentation to
EDUCAUSEMid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Anthony Conto, Ph.D.Executive Director, MAX
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Advanced Networking Initiatives
in the Mid-Atlantic Region
MAX MISSION
To bring cost-attractive, high performance, end-to-end connectivity
to the mid-Atlantic region to enable the missions of its constituent institutions
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Brief Background & History• Founding consortium: Georgetown U., George
Washington U., U. of Maryland, Virginia Tech• 1999 had OC-3 to carry traffic to Abilene• Building partnerships with commercial sector• Evolved into a cohesive group of universities, federal
research labs, and commercial and non-profit institutions • focused on the common goal of building the most advanced
regional network in the nation
• Currently operating an OC-48 network in the DC metro area with extensions into the Baltimore area.
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Advanced Networking Goals of MAX
• Ensure that researchers have access to the best networking infrastructure possible
• Fast, advanced services from the desktop to the backbone• Advanced services to whatever backbones evolve
• Ensure that Greater Baltimore-Washington-Virginia region is ‘visible’ on the national networking scene to be sure that the infrastructure evolves to meet future needs
• Leverage the intellectual capital in the MD-DC-VA region by providing high speed infrastructure accessible to many sizes and types of organizations
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MAX game plan• Basic infrastructure allows customized evolution to new
technologies.• Strategy
• “Big picture” cooperative planning among institutions to incrementally create robust infrastructure. • Fiber/facilities construction where/when appropriate• Multi-institutional engineering teams• Broad based applications’ technologies/services
• Commercial partnerships to help develop new technologies and new service models.
• Leverage state and municipal infrastructure programs.• Inter-regional peering and/or transit agreements
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Working Groups
• Management• Advise on issues related to the management and offerings of MAX• Commodity Transport• Providing Engineering Assistance
• Engineering• Advise on engineering related issues• IP Architecture and Optical Transport • Network Operations• Commodity Transport• IPv6, QoS, and Applications development and deployment
• Assessments and recommendations presented to Board of Founders for approval
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Partnerships Extend GigaPoP Infrastructure
• Partnership with QwestLink to provide dark fiber ring within the Washington beltway• Connects Qwest PoP in DC to GWU, UMCP (MD) and ISI-
East (VA)• Developing commodity offering for MAX membership
• Partnerships with Juniper and LuxN to populate the network nodes with M160 routers and WDM switches
• Partnerships with Fibergate to provide some participant dark fiber connections to MAX
• Co-location with:• Qwest, Yipes, ATT, Verizon,
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GigaPoP Peerings
• Extend regional resources to the consortium
• National resources accessed at high bandwidth• NIH, NLM, NASA, NSF, Smithsonian--(soon)
• National Network Peerings• Abilene, vBNS, ESnet, Supernet (soon), ATDnet(soon),
CA*NET3, STAR TAP, STAR LIGHT, APAN• NGIX
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Where MAX connectivity is today
• OC48 to Abilene
• OC12 connection by NASA/GSFC
• OC3/Gigabit Ethernet by most participants
• DS3 by some participants
• Connectivity into Baltimore region
• Exploring dark fiber options in northern Virginia
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Current Connectors
• University of Maryland• Georgetown University• George Washington
University• U of M, Baltimore County• NASA / GSFC• NSF• NIH• NLM• Howard Hughes Med.
Institute
• NOAA• U.S. Geological Survey• Catholic University• Univ. System of
Maryland• SURA• Kennedy Krieger Institute• NASA / ETC• UCAID• NCSA / ACCESS• Fujitsu Labs of America
MAX Network Overview
BALT(UMB)
CLPK(UMCP)
ARLG
OC48/WDM
OC48/fiber (pending)
USMETCKKI
UMCPUMBCGWUGTNLMNIHGSFCNSFUCAIDSURANOAA
ARLGISI EastNCSA ACCESS
DCNE(Qwest)
DCGW(GWU)
RSTN(tbd)
OC3
NGIX
Abilene
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads
Abilene
Network Virginia
ISP
National/Inter-nationalPeering Networks
Regional NetworkParticipants
InstitutionalParticipants
ATDNet
VBNS
NGIX-East
DREN
NISN
NRENESNet
MAXMAXRegional
Infrastructure
Supernet
National Library of MedicineNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNational Science FoundationSoutheastern Universities Research AssociationUniversity Consortium for Advanced Internet DevelopmentUniversity of MarylandUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyUniversity System of MarylandU.S. Geological Survey
The Catholic University of of AmericaGeorge Washington UniversityGeorgetown UniversityHoward Hughes Medical InstituteKennedy Krieger InstituteNASA/Emerging Technologies CenterNASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterNational Consortium for Supercomputer Applications/ACCESSNational Institutes of Health
net.work.Maryland
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Abilene Map
• New Abilene Map from Dan
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The Quilt Network
SOX(AL)
(AZ)
GPN(AR)
Cenic(CA)
FRGP(CO)
(CT)
(FL)
SOX(GA)
MREN(IL)
(IN)
(IA)
GPN(KS)
Texas(LA)
NoX
(MA)
Merit(MI)
GPN(MO)
Texas(MS)
GPN(NE)
Cenic(NV)
(NH)
(NJ)
(NM)
NYSERnet(NY)
NC Giga(NC)
NorthernLights(ND)
OARnet(OH)
(OK)
OREGON(OR)
PSC(PA)
SOX (SC)
NorthernLights(SD)
SOX(TN)
Texas Gigapop(TX)
(UT)
(VT)
MREN(WI)
FRGP(WY)
PNWGP(WA)
PSC(WV)
NorthernLights(MN)
Net.VirgSoX(KY)
PNWGP(MO)
PNWGP(ID)
MAX(MD)
(AK)NET.Virg (KY)
N. Lights (ND, SD, MN)
NoX(ME,NH,VT,MA,CT,RI)
NWV (VI)
NYSERnet (NY)
OARnet (OH)
OREGON (OR)
PNWGP (WA,ID,MO) PSC (PS,WV)
SOX (TN,AL,GA,SC) Texas (TX,LA,MS)
MREN (WI, IL)
GPN (NE, KS, AR, IA)
MAX (MD, VI)
Merit (MI)
FRGP (CO, WY)
Cenic (CA, NV)
NC Giga (NC)
MAXNWV(VI)
(RI)
(DE)
(HI)
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MAX networking efforts are directed toward extending the services & performance of the national high performance backbones into the region and to leverage the resources of MAX for the good of all participants.
