Thomas A. DeFanti, Maxine Brown
Principal Investigators, STAR TAP/StarLight
Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren Litvanyi
STAR TAP Engineering
Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward
StarLight Facilities
STAR TAP and StarLight
• STAR TAP: Premier operational cross-connect of
the world's high-performance academic networks
45-622Mb
• StarLight: Next-generation cutting-edge optical
evolution of STAR TAP connecting experimental
networks 1-10Gb
• Funded by USA National Science Foundation
grants to University of Illinois at Chicago and
Northwestern University, and USA Department of
Energy support to Argonne National Laboratory,
Math and Computer Science Division
Who is StarLight?
StarLight is jointly managed and engineered by:
• International Center for Advanced Internet
Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University
– Joe Mambretti, David Carr and Tim Ward
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL),
University of Illinois at Chicago
– Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh
• Mathematics and Computer Science Division
(MCS) , Argonne National Laboratory
– Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Caren Litvanyi, Rick
Stevens and Charlie Catlett
What is StarLight?
StarLight is an experimental
optical infrastructure and
proving ground for network
services optimized for
high-performance applications
View from StarLight
Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s
Chicago downtown campus
StarLight Infrastructure
StarLight is a large research-friendly co-location facility with
space, power and fiber that is being made available to
university and national/international network collaborators
as a point of presence in Chicago
StarLight Infrastructure
StarLight is a production GigE and trial 10GigE switch/router
facility for high-performance access to participating
networks
StarLight is Operational
Equipment at StarLight
• StarLight equipment installed:
– Cisco 6509 with GigE
– IPv6 Router
– Juniper M10 (GigE and OC-12 interfaces)
– Juniper T640 (on loan from Caltech)
– Cisco LS1010 with OC-12 interfaces
– Data mining cluster with GigE NICs
– Visualization/video server cluster (on
order)
• SURFnet’s 12000 GSR
• Multiple vendors for 1GigE, 10GigE, DWDM
and Optical Switch/Routing in the future
Commercial Providers @ StarLight
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SBC/Ameritech
Qwest
Global Crossing
AT&T and AT&T Broadband
Level 3
USA Networks @ StarLight
DoE ESnet
NASA NREN
NSF vBNS+ (coming soon)
UCAID/Internet2 Abilene
Metropolitan Research & Education
Network (Midwest GigaPoP)
OMNInet @ StarLight
UIC
8x1GE
Application
Cluster
Northwestern U
2x10GE
2x10GE
Optical
Switching
Platform
Passport
8600
Application
Cluster
Passport
8600
Passport
8600
Application
Cluster
CA*net3/4--Chicago
StarLight
8x1GE
Optical
Switching
Platform
8x1GE
2x10GE
2x10GE
Optical
Switching
Platform
Optical
Switching
Platform
8x1GE
Passport
8600
Application
Cluster
The Optical Metro Network Initiative (OMNInet), a 10GigE technology
trial by Nortel Networks and SBC/Ameritech with partners
Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago and
CANARIE/Canada, has one of its collocation points at StarLight.
I-WIRE @ StarLight
I-WIRE, the $7M State of Illinois dark fiber initiative that connects major
universities and government laboratories in Illinois, has its hub located
at StarLight.
Starlight
Argonne
(NU-Chicago)
18 pair
4 pair
Qwest
455 N. Cityfront
UC Gleacher
450 N. Cityfront
UIC
4 pair
4
10 pair
12 pair
12 pair
4 pair
McLeodUSA
151/155 N. Michigan
Doral Plaza
Level(3)
Illinois Century Network
111 N. Canal
James R. Thompson Ctr
City Hall
State of IL Bldg
2 pair
2 pair
2 pair
IIT
Source: Charlie Catlett 12/2001
UChicago
UIUC/NCSA
TeraGrid @ StarLight
TeraGrid, an NSF-funded Major Research Equipment initiative, has its
Illinois hub located at StarLight.
NetherLight @ StarLight
The Netherlands (SURFnet) has a 10Gb link to StarLight.
Cees de Laat, U Amsterdam
@ StarLight, USA
Tom DeFanti, UIC and de Laat
@ NetherLight, The Netherlands
International Research Networks @ StarLight
• SURFnet, The Netherlands
• CA*net4, Canada
• DataTAG, European Union-funded Trans-Atlantic
Grid 2.5Gb network
• NORDUnet, Nordic countries
• TransPAC/APAN, Asian-Pacific countries
• NaukaNet, Russia
• AMPATH, South American countries
• CERN, Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva
• UK-Light, United Kingdom (planning stages)
StarLight Engineering Partnerships
• Developers of 6TAP, the IPv6 global testbed,
notably ESnet and Viagenie (Canadian), have an
IPv6 router installed at StarLight
• NLANR works with STAR TAP on network
measurement; the NLANR AMP (Active
Measurement Platform) is located at STAR TAP
StarLight Middleware Partnerships Forming
• Provide tools and techniques for (university)
customer-controlled 10 Gigabit network flows
• Build general control mechanisms from emerging
toolkits, such as Globus, for Grid network
resource access and allocation services
• Test a range of new tools, such as GMPLS and
OBGP, for designing, configuring and managing
optical networks and their components
• Create a new generation of tools for appropriate
monitoring and measurements at multiple levels
Acknowledgments
Organizing Institutions
The Netherlands:
Amsterdam Science & Technology Centre
GigaPort Project
SARA Computing and Networking Services
SURFnet
Universiteit van Amsterdam/ Science Faculty
United States of America:
Argonne National Laboratory/ Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Indiana University/ Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Northwestern University/ International Center for Advanced Internet Research
University of Illinois at Chicago/ Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Acknowledgments
Participating Organizations
CANARIE
Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF)
Global Grid Forum
Globus Project
GRIDS Center
National Lab for Applied Network Research, Distributed Applications Support
Team (NLANR/DAST)
Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA)
TERENA
UCAID/Internet2
University of California, San Diego/ California Institute for Telecommunications
and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]
Acknowledgments
Sponsors
Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Amsterdam Science & Technology Centre
Cisco Systems, Inc.
City of Amsterdam
GEOgraphic Network Affiliates–International
GigaPort Project
Glimmerglass Networks
HP
IBM
Juniper Networks
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
National Computer Facilities (NWO/NCF), NL
National Science Foundation, USA
Royal Philips Electronics
SARA Computing and Networking Services
Stichting FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Stichting HEF
Stichting SURF
SURFnet
Tyco Telecommunications
Unilever NV
Universiteit van Amsterdam
StarLight
“Bring Us Your Lambdas”
Tom DeFanti, tom@uic.edu
www.startap.net/starlight
StarLight Thanks
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StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts at the
University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding from:
– National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809
– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)
cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational
Science Alliance
– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and UIC cost sharing
– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and
management
Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering
and planning leadership
NSF/ANIR, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, and Olivier
Martin of CERN for global optical networking leadership;
NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities
UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and their International Transit Network (ITN)
CA*net4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West
Coast transit