STAR TAP,
Euro-Link,
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StarLight
Tom DeFanti
April 8, 2003
STAR TAP, Euro-Link and StarLight
• STAR TAP supports the connections to the
SBC/Ameritech NAP, including the OC-12 to
StarLight. NSF funding started on May 1, 1997
and ends on April 30, 2004.
• Euro-Link supported the co-payments of circuits
to Europe and Israel starting 1999; CERN added
in 2000. Israel dropped 2002. NSF funding
continues one more year with a new supplement
to establish a StarLight to GÉANT link.
• StarLight supports the connections and
infrastructure research activities focused at 710
North Lake Shore Drive. It is an NSF STI grant,
funded until October 31, 2005.
A Brief History of STAR TAP
• STAR TAP started in 1997 at the Ameritech NAP
– Canada, Singapore and Taiwan first DS-3s (1997)
– vBNS, vBNS+, Abilene, DREN, NREN, ESnet, MREN
– HPIIS awards (1998/99-2003/4)
• TransPAC/APAN
• Euro-Link: Netherlands, Nordic, France, Israel, CERN
• MIRnet/Russia (now NaukaNet)
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Korea, Ireland, GEMnet (Japan), China, Hong Kong
Many others via Abilene international Transit Network
Several networks have now moved to StarLight
OC-12 provided between STAR TAP and StarLight
• NSF support will end in one year (April 2004) but
services may be continued by NU and SBC
www.startap.net/NETWORKS/
A Brief History of HPIIS/Euro-Link
• Euro-Link in 1999 co-funded DS-3s from STAR
TAP to France, Israel, Netherlands and Nordic
countries, CERN added in 2000
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Netherlands now at OC-192+ GÉANT
CERN/DataTAG at OC-48+OC-12
Nordic at OC-3+ GÉANT
France at OC-3+ GÉANT
Israel now uses only GÉANT
• 4 years of constant NSF funding helped
bandwidth to increased from 4-200x
• 1-year supplement will fund 5Gb link to GÉANT
and co-fund 10Gb DataTAG link to CERN
StarLight:
A 1GigE and 10GigE Exchange
Operational since summer 2001,
StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE
switch/router facility for highperformance access to
participating networks.
StarLight is becoming a true
optical switching facility for
wavelengths.
www.startap.net/starlight/NETWORKS/
Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s
Chicago downtown campus
StarLight is Working to be Everyone’s
Other End
• International, National, Midwest Regional, Chicago Metro
• As a Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet exchange
for R&E Production Networks
• As a GigE lambda exchange for the US, Canada, Europe,
Asia and South America for Experimental Networks
• Supporting 10Gb MEMS-switched Research Networks
• As the Chicago host to the NSF DTFnet, a 4x10Gb
Network for the TeraGrid and DTF/ETF links to Abilene
and others to be added.
• As a colo space: 66 racks for networking and computing,
data management and visualization support equipment
• Using fiber and circuits installed by SBC, Qwest, AT&T,
Global Crossing, T-Systems, Looking Glass, and I-WIRE
StarLight National and International
Networks as of April 1, 2003
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Abilene 10Gb
ESnet and 6TAP (DOE)
DREN (DOD)-installation in progress
NREN (NASA)
AMPATH (South America)
CA*net4 (Canada)
SURFnet (Netherlands)
NORDUnet (Nordic)
CERN/DataTAG
TransPAC/APAN (Asia)
NaukaNET (Russia)
ASnet (Taiwan)
Others via STAR TAP OC-12 and Abilene transit
See http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/mrtg-monitors/starlight/ for
statistics on usage
Thanks!
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Euro-Link/StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are
made possible, in major part, by funding from:
– National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090,
EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809
– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative
agreement ACI-9619019 to NCSA
– NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) cooperative agreement (ANI-0225642) to the
University of California San Diego (UCSD) for "The OptIPuter"
– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing
– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management
NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network
engineering and planning leadership
NSF/CISE/ACIR and NCSA/ANL/Caltech/SDSC/PSC for DTF/TeraGrid/ETF opportunities
UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC
CA*net4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave/NLR for planned North American transport
Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers and Cees de Laat of SURFnet, Olivier Martin of
CERN, and Harvey Newman of CalTech for networking leadership