UKLight Awareness Raising
Meeting
1st March 2006
National e-Science Centre
15 South College Street, Edinburgh
Welcome , background and
&
programme for the day
Peter Clarke
peter.clarke@ed.ac.uk
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~ 5 years ago we had only
“best efforts” IP networks
Then there was a Vision
Pioneered by
– StarLight
-SURFNet/NetherLight
- Canarie
There are lots of fibres out
there and it ought o be
possible to do more out of
the box stuff
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Router
Routed IP Network
Router
“layer-2” split out of
wavelength
[e.g. Ethernet]
Note: Today its all presented as 10 Gigabit/second Ethernet
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GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility
GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs and
institutions to enable R&D for new ways of networking
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GÉANT2’s Pan European Topology map
GÉANT2
Topology
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In the UK we have joined this new direction
Today:
UKLight joins us into global R&D networks
Tomorrow: (post 2006)
SuperJANET-5 will take the facilities further.
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ClydeNET
Glasgow
EastMAN
Edinburgh
Glasgow
C-PoP
Edinburgh
C-PoP
C&NLMAN
Lancaster
Warrington
C-PoP
NNW
Manchester
UKLight
Leeds
C-PoP
YHMAN
Leeds
MidMAN
Birmingham
Reading
C-PoP
CLRC-RAL
EastNet
Cambridge
London
C-PoP
10G
10G
10G
10G
ULCC
StarLight
Chicago
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NetherLight
Amsterdam
10G
UCL
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AbMAN
UHIMI Network
FaTMAN
Clydenet
EaStMAN
NorMAN
Northern Ireland
C&NL
MAN
YHMAN
NNW
North Wales
MAN
EMMAN
MidMAN
EastNet
South Wales
MAN
LMN
Kentish
MAN
SWERN
LeNSE
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Radio Astronomy
Onsala
Sweden
Westerbork
Netherlands
Jodrell Bank
UK
JIVE
Medicina
Italy
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Effelsberg
Germany
Torun
Poland
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The SPICE Project:
Showcasing SuperJANET
and the NGS / HPC
at IGrid and SC’05
mov
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Music
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Technical Challenges (1)
Few people are able to actually use even 1 Gbit/s over the wide
area network
TCP fails !!!
(internet
workhorse)
This shows “throughput” variation due to TCP
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Technical Challenges (2)
Source
Nobody has solved the
end-2-end provisioning
problem
Campus
Campus
Regional
Regional
Networks(s)
Networks(s)
At least 10 efforts
going on in this space,
none of which solve the
fully end-2-end problem
Regional
Regional
Campus
Campus
Dest
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Purpose of this meeting
What is UKLight (and SJ5 to come) ?
Where can you get connectivity to and from ?
Practicalities of getting connected at your site
Current applications and network research projects
Promote discussion of Its potential to enhance R&D
in Scotland – in Universities
(and University-Industry Collaborative projects)
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10:45
David Salmon - Introduction to UKLight / SJ5
11:15
George Howat - UKLight deployment in Scotland
11:35
Colin Greenwood - Current applications using UKLight (ESLEA)
12:05
Saleem Bhatti - Review of current network research on UKLight
(MASTS & 46PaQ)
12:35
Joe Sventek - Potential Uses of UKLight
13:00
Lunch
13:40
Craig Michie - Scottish Enterprise's strategic vision for high speed
networks in Scotland
14:00
Ivan Andonovic (Chair) - Open Forum
15:45
Peter Clarke - Summary and conclusions
16:00
Close
Thanks to Scottish Enterprise for providing the Hospitality
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