Project Number

1595

Project Title

GpENI: Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: James P.G. Sterbenz, University of Kansas, ​jpgs@ittc.ku.edu
Co-PI: Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, ​dmedhi@umkc.edu
Co-PI: Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ​byrav@cse.unl.edu
Co-PI: Caterina Scolio, Kansas State University, ​caterina@ksu.edu
Co-PI: Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University, ​grue@ksu.edu
Co-PI: Greg Monaco at Great Plains Network, ​greg@greatplains.net
Co-PI: Jeff Verrant, Ciena
Co-PI: TBD, Qwest
Co-I: Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, ​evans@eecs.ku.edu
Co-I: Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, ​choiby@umkc.edu

Participating Organizations

The University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS
Kansas State University – Manhattan, KS
University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, NE
Great Plains Network
Ciena Governement Solutions – Des Moines, IA
Qwest Government Services - Fairfax, VA
KanREN – Lawrence, KS
MOREnet – Columbia, MO

Scope

To provide an edge software defined routing infrastructure connected over a Regional Optical Network (RON) with GENI access to core optical switching equipment. GpENI belongs to the PlanetLab cluster (B).

Milestones
GpENI: Purchase switch and complete end-to-end connections

• 10 Oct 2008 – UNL Core Director delivered
• 01 Nov 2008 – KU node cluster installed
• 19 Dec 2008 – UNL optical switch operational
• 13 Feb 2009 – UNL to I2 to KU connectivity established
• 27 Feb 2009 – KU node cluster online
• 04 Mar 2009 – KSU node cluster online
• 11 Mar 2009 – UNL node cluster online
• 27 Mar 2009 – temporary L2TPv3 tunnel to UMKC relatively stable (will be replaced when MOREnet optical infrastructure when available)
• 30 Mar 2009 – milestone met

GpENI: Integrate GpENI with PlanetLab control framework

• 04 Mar 2009 – GpENI running PlanetLab control framework at KSU
• 09 Mar 2009 – KU attached to KSU PLC; KU–KSU slice created
• 17 Mar 2009 – UNL attached to KSU PLC; KU–KSU–UNL slice created
• 25 Mar 2009 – KSU GpENI dynamic operational status page available: ​http://control-1.ksu.gpeni.net/gec4/
• 27 Mar 2009 – UMKC node attached to KSU PLC; slice across all four GpENI node clusters created
• 30 Mar 2009 – milestone met
• 01 Apr 2009 – ​Gush is running on GpENI

GpENI: Testbed available for limited external research Due 15Oct09

• 04 Apr 2009 – ​Million node GENI (Seattle) is deployed on GpENI PlanetLab nodes

GpENI: Delivery of component manager ICD for Ciena Core Director switch Due 15Oct09
GpENI: Contribute to GENI outreach on-going

Project Technical Documents

Link to GpENI wiki maintained by KU ​https://wiki.ittc.ku.edu/gpeni

Quarterly Status Reports

​4Q08 Status Report
​1Q09 Status Report

or ​Link to Status Reports on GpENI wiki

Spiral 1 Connectivity

The GpENI network is formed from the Great Plains Network which has equipment co-located at an Internet2 POP in Kansas City, MO. The connections between the DWDM equipment, the availability of the 10GBE switch and the connections to the I2 transport network are to be determined. Contact James Sterbenz for status updates.

The Ciena switches are scheduled for acquisition over the three year period of performance (spiral-1 plus 2 option years). The initial switch to be purchased in spiral-1 is the Ciena Core Director located at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).

GPO Liason System Engineer

John Jacob ​jjacob@geni.net

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