An update of the R&E network capacity across the North Atlantic ocean based on the principles defined in the Global Network Architecture.

1. GNA TECH-WG
NORTH ATLANTIC (ANA) UPDATE
Alexander van den Hil
Product Manager

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An introduction to SURF
SURF, the R&E ICT
collaborative of
the Netherlands

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The SURF network
300km
150km

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The need for a Global Network Architecture, a GNA

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The pathfinder: ANA-300G
London
Amsterdam
New York
Washington
ParisMontreal
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
GEANT, SURFnet, NORDUnet, Internet2 & CANARIE

6. ANA-300G – Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU)
Scope of the Collaboration
1. Network Interconnection
Through Global Exchange Points, the
parties will jointly operate 100 Gbit/s
interconnects between their networks
2. Joint Network Research
3. Joint Application Development
4. Cooperation
5. Back-up Traffic
With other parties to improve resilience
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“The Parties do not intend this Agreement to be
legally binding. The Parties do however intend to
honor each of their obligations as set out in this
agreement and agree to cooperate in good faith in
achieving its objectives.”

7. ANA-300G – Memorandum
of Understanding
We agreed
• Governance
• AUP
• The duration of the collaboration
• Procedures for leaving the collaboration
• Procedures for enlarging the collaboration
• Procedures for External Communications
• How to handle Confidential Information
• How to share the cost
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8. Cost sharing principles defined
in a separate document
Practical approach
• New York – Paris Paid by GEANT
• Washington – London Paid by Internet2/CANARIE
• Montreal – Amsterdam Paid by NORDUnet/SURFnet
Each for the circuit, its GXP ports and patching.
In practice the TCO’s of all the links are more or less the
same.
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9. Collaboration with ESnet
and NEAAR in an other MoU
Scope of the collaboration
1. Network Interconnection
Through Open Exchange Points, the
Parties will jointly operate 100 Gbit/s
interconnects between their networks
2. Capacity sharing
Agreement to cooperate on capacity
sharing where appropriate
3. Back-up traffic
Agreement to mutually back each other
up in the event of outages
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“The Parties do not intend this Agreement to be
legally binding. The Parties do however intend to
honor each of their obligations as set out in this
agreement and agree to cooperate in good faith in
achieving its objectives.”
Again:

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The pathfinder expands: ANA-300G growing to 900G
London
Amsterdam
New York
Washington
Paris
900 Gbps
Montreal
Boston
Geneva
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
GEANT, SURFnet, NORDUnet, Internet2 & CANARIE
NII/Sinet
IU NEAAR
ESnet

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The pathfinder expands: ANA-300G growing to 900G

12. ANA - Operations Working Group
Operational Process
Defining and maintaining the procedures, documentation and responsibility
matrixes for operating the ANA system jointly.
Statistics
Developing and operating statistics
tooling for the ANA system.
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13. ANA - Engineering Working Group
Peering VLAN & route server on GXP’s
A public peering VLAN and route server is facilitate the implementation of
peering arrangements, and to lower the barrier of entry for new R&E Network
participants on an Open Exchange peering platform, by minimizing the effort to
maintain peering sessions.
Automating service provisioning across ANA
Nowadays provisioning service across the global R&E network based on GNA, is
time consuming. NOCs responsible for the infrastructure often exchange over
100 e-mails to activate a service. The core goals of this group is to make this
more efficient by automating this process.
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14. ANA - Cost Sharing and Legal Working Group
True-up for distributing the costs
Periodically, or when changes occur, the CSL-WG runs a true-up to give
insight into the cost share the participants take.
MoU Template
A template version of the Memorandum of Understanding for mutual
back-up is now available for use in other regions.
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15. NetherLight GXP Update
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- InterXion SP, Science Park, Amsterdam
(FKA Vancis Datacenter)
-- 5.9 km in between --
- Equinix AM7, Amsterdam
(FKA Telecity 2)
MX2008
Installed
Q1 2019
Fully migrated
Q3 2019
MX480
Installed &
Fully migrated
Q3 2019

16. NetherLight Connectors
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17. Amsterdam soccer match within 300msec on screen in Daejeon
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Amsterdam
NetherLight
Chicago
Starlight
Montreal
MOXY
Daejeon
KRLight
300msec Camera to Screen

18. Amsterdam soccer match within 300msec on screen in Daejeon
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19. Driving innovation together
Alexander van den Hil
Alexander.vandenHil@surfnet.nl
https://www.surf.nl