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                                        StarLight
Located in Northwestern’s Downtown Campus
Dark Fiber to UIC
    Carrier POPs
    Chicago NAP
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Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule
Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development Schedule
Year 0: September 2001-August 2002
TND Small TND1 clusters at LAC and StarLight
TNV TNV1 clusters at EVL and StarLight
TNC Small TNC1 clusters at EVL and StarLight (not shown in diagrams)
Netwk Cisco 6509s with 10GigE DWDM
I-WIRE StarLight to Qwest fiber (18 pair); TeraGrid/MREN to StarLight; Abilene to Starlight (other funding)
K-6 EVL VR displays deployed
Int’l Amsterdam clusters OC-48→2x1GigE (other funding)
Toward Terabits: Proposed Chicago Development Schedule
Year 1: September 2002-August 2003
TND (2) TND2s at LAC and StarLight
Netwk Cisco 6509 w/ 10GigE for LAC; 10Gb testing gear; (2) 10Gb boards for UIC, LAC
I-WIRE UIC to StarLight (1 pair); UIC to ANL to Starlight (1 pair); Seattle, California to StarLight OC-192
K-6 Wireless handheld computers
Int’l CERN, Tokyo OC-48→2x1GigE; Amsterdam OC-192→10GigE (other funding)
Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule
Year 2: September 2003-August 2004
TNV TNV2
Netwk Cisco 6513 10x10GigE at StarLight; (2) 10Gb DWDM lasers for a total capacity of 20Gb (between UIC to Starlight); (2) 10Gb boards for EVL, UIC
I-WIRE Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania?
K-6 Wireless handheld computers
Int’l Other internationals
Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule
 Year 3: September 2004-August 2005
TND (2) TND3s at LAC and StarLight
TNV TNV3
TNC TNC3 at AI/EVL
I-WIRE Others?
K-6 TND1 and TNV1 clusters re-deployed in schools
Int’l CERN, Tokyo OC-192→10GigE
Toward Terabits: Proposed RI Development Schedule
 Years 4 and 5: September 2005-August 2007
TND Upgrade NICs in (2) TND clusters to (8)x 10GigE
TNV Upgrade NICs in TNV3 clusters to (8)x10GigE
Netwk (2) 6509 Switch Fabric Upgrades; (48) 10GigE ports for EVL, LAC, UIC, StarLight; 2x40GigE switch/ router upgrades; 40Gb test equipment; O-E-O Optical Switch at StarLight (partial funding); (2) 40Gb DWDM lasers (EVL to StarLight); (8) 10Gb DWDM lasers (UIC to Starlight)
I-WIRE Others?
K-6 Classroom full of handheld computers interfaced to TND2/TNV2 clusters
Int’l Amsterdam OC-768→40GigE?
StarLight Thanks
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, EIA-9802090, 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 ITN
CA*net4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West Coast transit
“Bring Us Your Lambdas!”
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