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RENATER WDM infrastructure : deployment and usages

Franck Simon RENATER


Technical manager Franck.Simon@renater.fr

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The RENATER network


RENATER : French academic network. About 30 POPs (Point of Presence) distributed in France (at least one POP for each French geographic region) on which are connected metropolitan and regional networks. More than 600 sites (mainly Universities, Research centres) are connected to RENATER network via metropolitan and regional networks. Actual phase of the network : RENATER-4 (deployment completed in November 2005). The invitation to tender that had been launched for RENATER-4 network included the following elements: Operation of the network (IP service management) Maintenance for the existing equipment Routers (buy new routers and/or upgrade the existing ones) Switches (buy new switches and/or upgrade the existing ones) Maintenance for the new equipment (routers and switches) WDM equipment Maintenance for the WDM equipment Links for interconnection of RENATER POPs : leased lines and/or dark fibres.
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RENATER-4 : national backbone


SFINX (Global Internet eXchange) IP transit connectivity
2x2,5 Gbit/s 2x10 Gbit/s

GEANT-2
European research networks, with extensions to America, North Africa, and Asia
CERN

Ile de La Runion Mayotte Nouvelle Caldonie Polynsie Overseas Territories

1x10 Gbit/s (IP service) + 2x10 Gbit/s (projects)

Martinique Guadeloupe Guyane

Leased line (2,5 Gbit/s) Dark fibre

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RENATER-4 : dark fibre infrastructure

Kehl

CERN

CERN

Dark fibres
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Lambdas (10 Gbit/s)


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RENATER-4 : dark fibre infrastructure

= RENATER POP amplification site regeneration site G.652 fibre G.655 fibre
100 km

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RENATER-4 DWDM architecture


8x10GE 8x10GE

558km
8
Rennes

374km
8
Rouen

8
Caen

8
Paris 1 & 4

8
Paris 2 & 3

8
Lille 8 8 8 8

8x10GE

16

Nancy Strasbourg Line terminal

16x10GE

600km
8x10GE 8x10GE

461km
Add/drop (some channels can pass transparently) Inline repeater (only EDFA amplifiers) Lyon 4 & 7
Lyon 4 Lyon 6

208km

16

CERN

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Lyon 5 & 6

8 8

8x10GE

251km

Lyon 7

8
Lyon 5

222km
8x10GE

Grenoble

8
Toulouse Montpellier Marseille Nice

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8 8x10GE

8 6

376km
8x10GE

297km

RENATER-4 : WDM equipment within a POP


Paris 3 Paris 1

Rennes

8
Paris 1 & 4
Paris 4

8
Paris 2 & 3

Lille

Paris site: equipment hosted in two racks


Paris 1 & 4 Paris 2 & 3

16

8
Paris 2

Strasbourg

Lyon Rennes
1696MS

Lyon

Lille

1696MS

Strasbourg

MUX

1626LM

1626LM

Transponder

48V

48V

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RENATER-4 : architecture of a RENATER POP


Dark fibres RENATER POP (10 Gbit/s lambdas) ALCATEL 1696MS (Metro Span) Traffic for big projects ALCATEL 1626LM (Light Manager) IP router (Cisco 12400) Leased lines (2,5 Gbit/s)
10GE transponders
GE connections for metropolitan and regional networks GE/10GE connections for projects using the dark fibre infrastructure

IP traffic
Ethernet switch (Cisco Catalyst)

Request : it was decided to have only 10 Gbit/s lambdas within the backbone, with up to 8-16 lambdas for a same path. Constraint : distance of 200-450 kms between 2 RENATER POPs Choice for WDM design : metropolitan DWDM equipment, with amplification points every 80-120 kms.
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RENATER DWDM : deployment


Deployment steps :
Technical visits of all POPs and shelters Installation of DWDM equipment within RENATER POPs and shelters, and connection of fibres Optical testing : in many cases, end-to-end optical measures (attenuations mainly) were different from the initial values estimated by the operators providing the fibres, meanwhile the global DWDM design had been made on those estimations (at least to order the equipment !).

Issue 1 : reconfiguring the amplifiers Issue 2 : when the results were too different from the estimated values, the operator was requested to reduce as much as possible the patch-panels points, afterwhat the optical end-to-end measures had to be re-planned in order to validate the whole topology to make sure it was scaling when increasing the number of lambdas (at least 8*10 Gbit/s lambdas and up to 16 lambdas).
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RENATER-4 DWDM infrastructure : usages


For now, the RENATER-4 DWDM infrastructure is dedicated to projects requesting a lot of bandwidth, meanwhile all the basic IP traffic is carried via the leased line infrastructure (n*2.5 Gbit/s links):
GRID-5000 (5000 CPUs distributed in 9 sites for research in Grid Computing) : http://www.grid5000.org LHC (Large Hadron Collider) : http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) : http://www.deisa.org/
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RENATER DWDM infrastructure : next steps


A tender is about to be completed, in order to deploy dark fibres for the interconnexion of the main RENATER POPs within and around Paris. It will be a meshed architecture, with high availability, so that there will be lambdas for production traffic and lambdas for projects . Next step for the RENATER national backbone: acquire some more dark fibres in order to be able to build a meshed architecture (instead of the actual star architecture), and then remove progressively the STM-16 links connected to the routers.

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