UKLight
Jeremy Sharp, UKERNA Advanced Technologies
Manager
John Graham
UKLight Engineer
www.uklight.ac.uk
Themes
• What is UKLight
• UKLight Governance
• UKLight – International
• UK National Access to UKLight
• Project facilities at ULCC
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The lure of the lambda
• e-science: huge end-to-end data flows
• Will this be possible with IP networks?
• UKLight project:
• End-to-end Gbps bandwidth
• Ultimate goal: application-controlled switching of WDM
wavelengths
• First steps:
electrical multiplexing
applications proof-of-concept
• Early adoptors
• Particle Physics - high performance data transfer
• Radio Astronomy - very long baseline interferometry
(near-real-time data transfer)
• Distributed HPC & visualization
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The birth of UKLight
• International activities
• StarLight – evolved from Startap
• Joined by NetherLight
• ‘Lambda’ workshops – Sept 01, 02, 03, 04-UK
• TERENA
• Initiative attempted with Flag Telecom during 2002
• Interest within Grid Network team – UK e-Science
programme
• UK activities have evolved from these over last 2 +
years
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Internal meetings and papers during 2002
UKLight bid to JCSR – Nov 2002
Funding approved March / April 2003
Mid 2004, first bandwidth channels established
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What is UKLight
• Facility to provide national & international
‘bandwidth channels’ for use by research & eScience projects
• Cross-discipline initiative
• JANET community
• Network research
• E-Science applications
• Optical (photonic) communications research
• UKERNA – manage and develop JANET
• Supporting the community
• Advanced service-network development
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UKLight components
UK Access
Network
UKLight point-of-access and international facilities
UKLight
Glasgow
London
Edinburgh
Leeds
University
NetherLight
StarLight
Amsterdam
Chicargo
Cambridge
University
Manchester
University
Manchester
Leeds
Lancaster
University
Reading
London
UKLight
RAL
UK national R&D network infrastructure
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London
Bristol
Portsmouth
UKLight Components
A UK national photonics facility/infrastructure - TBC
4x160 Gb/sec
OTDM test-bed
Recirculating loop
Raman amplifiers
Ultrafast links and switches for
OTDM routing
Low cost links for 40 Gb/s
Quantum dot based switches,
amplifiers and routers for
ultrabroadband WDM operation
BT Labs
CIP (Centre of
Integrated
Photonics)
Cambridge
Aston
UKLight DF
Essex
International
Southampton
Optical regeneration
OCDMA test bed
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Wavelength routed test-bed
Optical packet core router and
edge interfaces
160 Gb/sec OTDM facility
UCL
Agile WDM channel generation (< 10 ns)
Optical regenerators (10 & 40 Gb/s)
DWDM Wavelength Routers
WDM test beds for 10, 40, 160 Gb/s
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Funding Source
• Funding – SRIF - £6.5M total
• From HEFCE (Higher Education Funding
Council for England)
• Via JISC (Joint Information Systems
Committee)
• Sub-committee for Support of research (JCSR)
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What does the funding
provide?
• International Point of Access
• Circuits, equipment, housing, NMS, staff
• UK Access and photonics infrastructure
• Equipment, housing…
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UKLight Governance
• Steering Committee (SC) – JISC established
• covers policy and funding issues
• Hugh Pilcher-Clayton (EPSRC) will chair
• International representatives
• Bill St Arnaud (Canarie) and David Williams
(CERN/TERENA)
• Community representation
• Peter Clarke (UCL), Dave Deroure (Southampton),
Brian Gilmour (Edinburgh), David Hutchison
(Lancaster), Guy Rickett (PPARC), David Salmon
(UKERNA), Lesley Thompson (EPSRC)
• Plus JISC & UKERNA attendees
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UKLight Governance
• Technical Advisory Group (TAG) – UKERNA
established
• operations and project-feasibility assessment
• David Hutchison (Lancaster University) will chair
• Community representation
• Tim Chown (Southampton), Lionel Sacks UCL),
Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex), Ian White (Cambridge)
• John Graham (ULCC) – UKLight engineer
• David Salmon (UKERNA)
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Use by projects
• Projects expected to be funded by Research Council
or other programmes
• Central funding covers equipment interface at
backbone edge
• Projects discuss options with UKLight project
manager & submit written connection proposal
• UKLight TAG will assess feasibility & provide a report
• Use as part of research proposal
• Existing projects can also make a case to connect
• Will need endorsement by original funding
programme
• In some cases may need to consult the UKLight
steering committee
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Future Expansion
• Build to meet requirements of approved projects
• Phase 3 – still speculative
• Remaining budget would allow equipping access to
about half of the Regional Networks)
• JISC/Research Council call for expressions of interest
to connect to UKLight issued
• Steering Committee will prioritise responses
• Commit funds during 2004
• Use budget to give projects working time during 2005
• Beyond this leads into SuperJANET5 !
• Incorporate these concepts from ground up
• Flexible transmission platform
• Fibre / wavelength service based
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Overview of SuperJANET5
architecture requirements
Requirements to be served
Commodity
Teaching & Learning
e-Science
Network Service
R&D
Dev.
IP production network
Special purpose
bandwidth
Flexible transmission platform
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Test – Test –
bed(s) bed(s)
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