Network Research and Research Networks.ppt

Network Research and Research Networks Fred Baker Cisco Fellow The questions I was asked Simon asked me to answer the question: “What types of networks should eScience be using?” That’s a big question, and has many possible answers I was also asked: “Which wireless is better, 3GPP, WiFi, or WiMax? Which should we deploy?” Network Research and Research Networks Key question before I answer that: What are we doing? Research Networks: production networks that support science and education Networking Research: potentially substandard networks that test networking concepts Educational Networks Examples of these include the NRENS. Internet2, AARNET, CERNET, SingAREN, TANET/TANET2, TWAREN, etc Services supported: Educational institutions, including K-12 and University High end science Education Example:Greek Public School Network Built off Greek NREN (GRNET): 7 GRNET nodes 82 GSN distribution routers ~10,000 schools Each school today has two IPv4 /30 subnets Access network Loopback NAT interior GSN Distribution Network Design One GSN distribution network per GRNET site (7) One access server per distribution network BGP Routing Advertises /48 to GRNET, or GRNET static routes to it Default route to GRNET OSPF Routing Distributes to ￡ 16 POPs in OSPF Backbone Area or IS-IS L2 Domain Distributes to ~200 schools from each POP using OSPF or IS-IS Stub Area GSN In-School network Access connectivity: Stateful Firewall ADSL or ISDN Servers External access limited to SMTP/FTP download/WWW Additional POP etc access from lab Additional POP+FTP Upload access from administrative domain Intrusion Management Labs No external access Administration No external access Separated from student network Intrusion Management Big Science Example:Square Kilometer Array Continental radio telescope Hundreds of correlated radio telescopes ~100 sensors per telescope 20 telescopes in a farm 120 telescope farms O(800 MBPS) data per sensor Data blocks O(340 Mbytes) One potential design: Software corr