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“Client-side DWDM”: A model for next-gen Baltimore region optical fanout Dan Magorian Director of Engineering and Operations MidAtlantic Crossroads (MAX) Presentation to Joint Techs, Fermilab July 17, 2007 Here’s the usual optical fanout nonstarter situation at most places Almost all RONs have dwdm systems, either hard-provisioned with jumpers or with ROADMs. Hardly any campuses have dwdm systems, but many are fiber-rich. So most campuses figure that will bolt dark fiber to lambdas to connect RON lambdas to high-bandwidth researchers. If any actually materialize on their campus as real demand with “check in hand”. A few realize this many not scale and are thinking about white light switches to conserve fiber. When they think about dwdm systems to carry lambdas to edge, cost usually prohibitive, given fiber resources and lack of perceived need for many dwdm system features. So the Baltimore region wasn’t much different from anyone else Actual “check in hand” researcher 10G demand to JHU, UMBC, others was uncertain until recently. Community had been well served by MAX Internet2 high-performance layer 3 transit services. No one in Baltimore or DC had yet joined NLR. Tho MAX has been fanning out NLR lambdas across the region for other projects and customers for years. But recently, Teraflow testbed other projects appeared with actual needs for 10G lambdas to Balt researchers Also, growing demand from less well-heeled esearcher projects for vlans over shared 10G lambdas, similar to NLR’s Framenet service. So, suddenly Balt institutions had to get their act together. Luckily, had resources needed for this BERnet (Baltimore Educational Region network) has long history of good forum for horse trading assets and working mutual deals between 7 participants: state net, university net, libraries, 4 universities. Many other regions have similar forums, but this level of cooperation actually rather uncommon in Mid-Atlantic, so BERnet frequently touted as good coope