| 1 | | From OMF Year 1 report, and email on 3/4/10: |
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| 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. |
