133 | | Layer 2 Connectivity: An MOU was agreed upon with the UMass Office of Information Technology |
134 | | (OIT) regarding connecting Internet2 to the DOME and ViSE servers, along with |
135 | | VLAN access; see [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/DOME/mou.pdf ]. There is currently no usable layer2 connection to the UMass Amherst lab available for GENI. The project is investigating the possibility of installing local fiber that could enable a connection to NLR through an appropriate regional network. If installed this fiber would support both the [wiki:DOME] and [wiki:ViSE] projects in Spiral 1 and in later stages that include support for mobile nodes. Layer 2 ethernets will not extend to the !DieselNet nodes, due to limitations in the existing deployed systems, but IP tunnels to the layer 2 VLAN termination points should be feasible for connecting mobile endpoints to the GENI virtual ethernets. |
| 133 | Layer 2 Connectivity: An [http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/DOME/mou.pdf MOU] was agreed upon with the UMass Office of Information Technology (OIT) regarding connecting Internet2 to the DOME and ViSE servers, along with |
| 134 | VLAN access. The OIT contact is Rick Tuthill. The agreements include: |
| 135 | 1) CS shall order OIT-provisioned network jacks in appropriate locations in the Computer Science building using normal OIT processes. (completed) |
| 136 | 2) OIT shall configure these jacks into a single VLAN that shall be extended over existing OIT-managed network infrastructure between the Computer Science building and the Northern Crossroads (NoX) Internet2 Gigapop located at 300 Bent St in Cambridge, MA. |
| 137 | 3) OIT agrees to provide a single VLAN for “proof-of-concept” testing and initial GENI research activities. |
| 138 | 4) The interconnection of the provided VLAN between the NoX termination point and other Internet2 locations remains strictly the province of the CS researchers and the GENI organization. |
| 139 | 5) This service shall be provided by OIT at no charge to CS for the term of one year in the interest of OIT learning more about effectively supporting network-related research efforts on campus. |
| 140 | |
| 141 | Note that Layer 2 ethernets will not extend to the DieselNet nodes, due to limitations in the existing deployed systems, but IP tunnels to the layer 2 VLAN termination points should be feasible for connecting mobile endpoints to the GENI virtual ethernets. |