1 | | On 1020/09, agreed with Ivan Seskar that this milestone will be completed when L2 conenction is complete from Rutgers, through NJEdge, to I2 DCN, and then on to NICTA. |
| 1 | From OMF Year 1 report, and email on 3/4/10: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Support for wide‐area (L2) connectivity |
| 4 | Early in the year, we worked with the NJEdge regional consortium to connect us to |
| 5 | regional center MAGPI East (Philadelphia). As part of this process, we acquired |
| 6 | dedicated fiber along the Route 1 corridor jointly with NJEdge. In the first half of the |
| 7 | year the section of missing fiber link between the Rutgers Food Science building and the |
| 8 | Route 1 fiber corridor (~1 mile) was installed and optical lambda service from NJEdge |
| 9 | was provisioned. This created 1Gbps optical link between our current location (Rt. 1 |
| 10 | Technology Center, North Brunswick NJ) and carrier hotel (MagPI East) at 401 Broad |
| 11 | Street in Philly on the 9th floor. The ION connection was not provisioned due to missing |
| 12 | cross connect between I2 and MagPI. To avoid delays for other dependant deliverables, |
| 13 | we used L2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) over the excess capacity of 400Mbps on Rutgers |
| 14 | University's existing commodity feed to emulate expected L2 connectivity and |
| 15 | implement wide area networking. This link was used for a variety of testing scenarios, |
| 16 | including a single experiment with a mixture of individual resources on both ends of the |
| 17 | tunnel (with experiment coordination from both ends of the tunnel over multicast |
| 18 | traffic), running an aggregate manager for the resource on the opposite end of the |
| 19 | tunnel and measurement collection across endpoints. |
| 20 | We have successfully conducted a GEC demo that utilised L2 wide area network link |
| 21 | from the New Jersey based ORBIT testbed to testbed facilities at NICTA in Sydney, |
| 22 | Australia. |