Networks Annual Report 2016

Networks Annual Report 2016

NETWORKS at IU The Digital Crossroads

NETWORKS at IU The Digital Crossroads

In 2016, Hoosiers celebrated Indiana’s bicentennial and its unique standing as the “crossroads of America.”

Networks at IU oversees information systems that interconnect the research and education (R&E) community. But Indiana was always a catalyst for connection.

Early on, Indiana invested in canals, like the Wabash and Erie Canal.

The longest artificial waterway ever built in North America, it was actually four canals connected to a vast system of rivers that ultimately linked the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

It was Indiana’s first network.

New technologies soon eclipsed canals, but Hoosiers adapted in the 20th century.

There are more interstate highway miles per square mile in Indiana than in any other state in the country.

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Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods….

Together, the uniting forces of our communication and transportation systems are dynamic elements in the very name we bear—United States. Without them, we would be a mere alliance of many separate parts.”

— President Eisenhower, proposing the interstate highway system 60 years ago.

Those unifying ideals still manifest in the information networks we manage. I-Light links virtually every college and university in Indiana. The Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) oversees more than 20 local, national, and global projects. And International Networks at IU (IN@IU) is engaging new colleagues around the world in scientific collaboration.

Carrying Indiana’s tradition into its second century, Networks at Indiana University proudly serves as the digital crossroads of the world.

THE

CROSSROADS of GLOBAL INNOVATION

GlobalNOC at Indiana University maintains the powerful high-speed networks that link research partners across the globe. These networks connect some of the world’s greatest minds across physical boundaries to collaborate and advance scientific discovery.

Operating out of twin operations centers, located in separate parts of the state for fail-safe redundancy, GlobalNOC’s world-class networking professionals provide 24x7x365 monitoring and support for some of the most advanced R&E networks in the world. Modern paradigmshifting science requires widespread, data-intensive collaboration. GlobalNOC is here to make sure that happens.

SHARING NETWORK EXPERTISE

EXPANDING NOAA N-WAVE

Sometimes updating the human element is still the best way to

GlobalNOC expanded

upgrade high-tech network efficiency. GlobalNOC organized four

the National Oceanic and

Operating Innovative Networks (OIN) workshops to help mitigate

Atmospheric Administration’s

large-scale data transfer problems locally, before they appear on

(NOAA) N-Wave network,

networks.

adding support for their headquarters in Silver Spring,

ESTABLISHING A NEW NOC

MD and campus in Boulder,

International Research Network Connections (IRNC) NOC was

CO. GlobalNOC also began

created thanks to National Science Foundation (NSF) funding. As

providing Trusted Internet

part of GlobalNOC, data from international research projects is

Connection services, meeting

now being collected in a safe, private way for optimized network

stringent new government

management.

network security requirements.

Core Sites

STREAMLINING PROBLEM SOLVING

TICAP and VPN Concentrator Sites

GlobalNOC devised and implemented a new service, Performance

Aggregation Sites

Engagement Teams (PETs), which uses a centralized help desk to

Participant Sites

pinpoint cross-network problems. Resolutions that once required

Backbone link

months of piecemeal investigation are now handled quickly and

Access link

systematically.

DWDM link Future connections

Fairbanks Silver Spring

College Park

Santa Rosa °°McLean

Point Reyes °Sand Point

San Francisco

Suitland

Oakland °°Seattle Sunnyvale Santa Cruz Ann Arbor Bohemia Salt Lake City Sunnyvale

Princeton

Chicago

°Boulder

Fairmont

°°Denver

°°°Washington, D.C. Wallops Island Beaufort

Asheville

Norman

Atlanta Charleston °°Honolulu

Dallas

Miami

THE

CROSSROADS of THE COUNTRY

Networks at IU began in 1998 as the network operations center for Internet2’s Abilene network. Nearly two decades later, our work with Internet2 keeps IU at the crossroads of the country’s largest and fastest coast-to-coast R&E network community.

Whether it’s managing record-high network traffic or securing transfers of data that ultimately confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, Networks at IU is proud to continue its longstanding partnership with Internet2.

GlobalNOC stands capable and committed in its support of Internet2 and its key programmatic focus areas of a secure national network and a trust and identity framework.

LINKING EUROPEAN SATELLITE SERVICE WITH NOAA’S NETWORK Internet2 and partners worked to establish a dedicated high-speed data-sharing network between NOAA and EUMETSAT—a global weather and climate satellite agency in Europe that operates Copernicus, the world’s largest Earth observation program to date.

CELEBRATING TWO DECADES OF PROGRESS Internet2 members and participants from 39 countries gathered to celebrate two decades of innovation and collaboration. Meeting in Chicago, where Internet2 was born, the 2016 Global Summit celebrated the past and looked forward to what’s in store for the next 20 years.

EVOLVING CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITY TO MEET CHANGING DEMANDS Traffic on the Internet2 network grew to record levels, and is now exceeding one exabyte per year. That’s one billion gigabytes—the equivalent of transmitting every human word ever spoken six times.

Internet2 and GlobalNOC visited over 25 sites across the country, replacing 500-pound routers to enable new programmable advanced services on the network.

Seattle Sand Point

Olympia

Missoula Helena

Spokane

Portland Eugene

Dickinson

Bozeman

Fargo

Bismarck

Laurel Boise

Albany

Minneapolis

Milwaukee Detroit

Madison

Reno

Pittsburgh

Sunnyvale San Luis Obispo

Kansas City Pueblo

Las Vegas

Los Angeles San Diego

Philadelphia

Indianapolis

Denver

Ashburn Cincinnati

St. Louis

Raleigh Nashville

Tulsa

Albuquerque

Memphis

Phoenix

Washington, D.C.

Louisville

Columbia

Charlotte

Chattanooga

Atlanta

Tucson Dallas El Paso

Jackson Jacksonville

San Antonio Baton Rouge IP router node (Layer 3 services) Advanced Layer 2 Service (Layer 2 services) Optical add/drop facility (Layer 1 services)

Houston (2)

Boston

New York City (2)

Cleveland

Chicago (3)

Salt Lake City

Sacramento

Buffalo

THE

CROSSROADS of THE WORLD

Twenty-first century science knows neither boundaries nor borders. Whether large or small, research projects have become international affairs. International Networks at IU (IN@IU) manages networks that cross both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. They’re conduits for research data—but they are also platforms of global scientific diplomacy. IN@IU uses NetSage, an advanced network analysis tool, and good old-fashioned human interaction to foster and expand this digital scientific dialogue around the world. Their unique emphasis on helping researchers harness the benefits of networks will be even more vital as Africa joins the global R&E community.

UPGRADING TRANSPAC LINK TO 100G IN@IU’s first 100G circuit spanning the Pacific Ocean, the fourth and fastest-yet iteration of TransPAC, went live in January 2016, with the support of a $4.8M NSF grant.

ACE TransPAC

EMBRACING A CONTINENTAL SHIFT IN NETWORKED SCIENCE IN@IU won a $3.25M NSF grant to fund a four-year project that connects researchers in the U.S. with counterparts in Europe, and soon Africa, too. As researchers in Africa join a network connecting with Europe and America, IN@IU will ramp up its outreach and training efforts in support of the emerging Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR).

EXPANDING TRAINING AND OUTREACH Globetrotting IN@IU network engineers traveled nearly a quarter million miles this year connecting with counterparts in eight countries, including conducting an OIN workshop in Hong Kong to proactively improve network performance by training end users.

COLLABORATING WITH I-LIGHT TO MEASURE NETWORK TRAFFIC Along with the Indiana I-Light network, IN@IU initiated new Performance Service Oriented Network monitoring Architecture (perfSONAR) nodes to better understand the flow of network traffic and pinpoint bottlenecks.

IMPROVING NETWORK EFFICIENCY WITH LIVE MONITORING NetSage Dashboard, a multiplatform network monitoring system, went live after IN@IU won a $5M NSF grant for the project in 2015. NetSage makes real-time traffic monitoring of any part of the NSF’s entire International Research Network Connections (IRNC) project possible, for the first time ever.

THE

CROSSROADS of an INTERCONNECTED STATE

I-Light is the high-speed fiber optic network that connects nearly all public universities and private colleges within the state of Indiana, providing members access to the latest learning tools, like high-quality video streaming and telepresence, as well as lightning-fast connections to supercomputers and advanced storage facilities for big data. I-Light also connects local PBS stations across the state and streams video of Indiana government proceedings. 2016 was I-Light’s 10th anniversary, and the team had a lot to celebrate.

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF I-LIGHT The I-Light team at IU celebrated a decade of unimaginable growth this June. Now serving 42 colleges and universities, the I-Light 10year anniversary conference had record attendance and featured Florence Hudson from Internet2 as the keynote speaker.

TAKING A RARE DESERT EXCURSION I-Light reached beyond the state of Indiana in an unprecedented public-private partnership that connected a Hoosier campus way out in Peoria, AZ. Huntington University opened the

DEVELOPING A SHARPER, SHARED VIEW

satellite location in the Grand

OF NETWORK TRAFFIC

Canyon State, and I-Light

Once only the purview of large-scale backbone

worked with Arizona’s Sun

connections, small, low-cost perfSONAR test points now

Corridor R&E network and

bring monitoring to smaller segments of networks. I-Light

Cox Communications to link

installed perfSONAR on four more campuses. Those

the far-flung site to its main

members now have better tools to troubleshoot their

campus back home.

own traffic.

UPGRADING THE BACKBONE OF I-LIGHT I-Light completed bandwidth upgrades to its

Holy Cross Bethel College Ivy Tech Michigan City

WYIN-Lakeshore Public Broadcasting

Notre Dame IU South Bend

Michigan City

Calumet College of St. Joseph

Elkhart South Bend

IU Northwest Ivy Tech East Chicago Ivy Tech Gary Purdue University Calumet

Trine University

Ivy Tech Elkhart Ivy Tech South Bend

Ivy Tech Valparaiso

Westville

WNIT-Michiana Public Broadcasting

Purdue North Central

Gary Valparaiso

Goshen College

Goshen Ligonier

Valparaiso University

backbone, boosting speeds

Crown Point

Warsaw Ivy Tech Warsaw

tenfold across Indiana. IU

Winona Lake

Bloomington, IUPUI, and

Grace College

North Manchester

Notre Dame now enjoy two

Manchester University

Mt. Ayr

St. Joseph College

Ivy Tech Monticello

other, and smaller colleges,

Markle

Delphi

universities, and research

Sedalia

Marion

Ivy Tech Kokomo

Ivy Tech Marion

West Lafayette FSSA DFR

West Lafayette

institutions across Indiana

Kokomo

Purdue University

Vincennes Lebanon

Ivy Tech West Lafayette

also benefit.

Indiana Wesleyan

Upland

IU Kokomo Huntington University

WIPB

Muncie

Taylor University

Ball State University

Anderson University Lifeline

Indianapolis

Fishers

IUPUI

Albany Ivy Tech Muncie Ivy Tech Anderson Ivy Tech Anderson Martin University IU East New Castle

Anderson

Wabash College Grace College

GREENLIGHTING

Butler University Marian University

UPGRADES FOR

Ivy Tech Richmond

State Streaming

Greencastle

Ivy Tech Greencastle

Ivy Tech Connersville

Richmond Earlham College

Depauw University

IU East

Rose-Hulman Ventures

REGIONAL IU CAMPUSES to all IU students, faculty,

WFWA

Manchester University -— Fort Wayne

100G lines between each

Faster speeds are coming

Trine University — Fort Wayne IPFW Ivy Tech Fort Wayne University of St. Francis IN Institute of Technology

Fort Wayne

Ivy Tech

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

WFYI

Ivy Tech Fairbanks St. Mary of the Woods College Ivy Tech Terre Haute

University of Indianapolis

Vincennes Aviation Center Ball State Indianapolis

Terre Haute Indiana State University

Ivy Tech Franklin

Dawson

Columbus

Ivy Tech Bloomington Indiana University

regional campuses on an NSF

Batesville

Franklin College Vincennes University Jasper

I-Light collaborated with the

Connersville

Vincennes School for the Deaf

Ball State Fishers

and staff across the state.

Shelbyville

Columbus Learning Center IUPU Columbus Ivy Tech Columbus

Bloomington

WTIU

Carlisle

grant to upgrade from 1G to 10G connections. The NSF

Crothersville Ivy Tech Lawrenceburg

Vincennes

awarded IU $450K for

Ivy Tech Madison Hanover College

Vincennes University

this project.

WVUT

WNIN

Oakland City

Oakland City University

Saint Meinrad Seminary Sellersburg and School of Theology Vincennes University IU Southeast-Water Tower Jasper Center

University of Southern Indiana

Huntingburg Vincennes University Ft. Branch

Ivy Tech Evansville Gentryville

Evansville

University of Evansville

Milltown

Ivy Tech Sellersburg

New Albany IU Southeast

THE

CROSSROADS at the HEART OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY

While the impact of IU’s crucial networking systems and services has transformed Indiana into the 21st century crossroads of the (digital) world, the mission to serve the best connections available to the IU community remains paramount.

The team at Campus Networks is always on the move, perpetually outfitting facilities across IU’s many campuses with the latest hardware and upgraded connections.

It’s hard work, but without people actually pulling wires through the ground, we couldn’t tether our work to the cloud.

REWIRING CAMPUS

UNWIRING CAMPUS

Campus Networks made huge progress on a massive

This year also saw the expansion of

multiyear project to upgrade wiring in dozens of buildings

wireless access points throughout IU

on the campuses of IU Bloomington and IUPUI. Each

Bloomington and IUPUI. The number

building, especially older ones, provides a unique set of

of access points at IU Bloomington

challenges. It’s intensive labor, but with a million-fold increase

swelled from 5500 to 6258, and at

in local bandwidth to gain, it’s worth it.

IUPUI from 1912 to 2052.

REDUCING TRAFFIC JAMS Campus Networks replaced Domain Name Service (DNS) hardware across IU campuses with new servers. This means optimized access and reliable navigation of the web on campus, which translates to fewer headaches for both users and support centers.

SPEEDING UP DATA CENTER INTERCONNECTIONS Campus Networks more than doubled network speeds between IU Bloomington and IUPUI’s data centers.

Main uplinks were increased to 80G and physical server connections were moved from a shared 10G connection to a dedicated 10G connection.

WIDENING THE DIGITAL DOORWAY TO CAMPUS Router links between IU Bloomington and IUPUI were upgraded from 4x10G to 100G connections, opening the flow of intercampus data traffic. Bandwidth was also augmented from 20G to 100G for routers accessing the commodity internet and Internet2.

THE

ROAD AHEAD 2017

Hoosiers didn’t give up their reputation as the

Likewise, Networks at IU is always looking toward

crossroads of America when canals phased out

the next developments in technology and services

of use in the early years of Indiana’s statehood.

to enhance our central role supporting collabora-

From canals to expressways to fiber optics,

tion and discovery—from IU to international net-

Indiana has remained central in connecting the

works, and everywhere in between. Here’s what

country and beyond.

we’re looking forward to in 2017:

GLOBALNOC •

Completing Internet2 new architecture implementation

•

Contributing to Internet2 2018 future architecture development

•

Performing five more OIN workshops

•

Finishing updates to IT service management transition to ServiceNow ticketing system, improving change, incident, service request, and problem management

I-LIGHT •

Implementing the second phase of the 100G upgrade

•

Shifting member connections to streamlined Siena management platform, eliminating extraneous routing for data traffic

•

Rolling out a DDoS mitigation and Scrubbing service to members

•

Providing more NSF grant assistance for I-Light members, including Butler, DePauw, and Indiana State

IN@IU •

Increasing engagement and training with partners across Asia, Europe, and Africa

•

Implementing NetSage monitoring to measure by project type

•

Completing full transition from 30G America Connects to Europe (ACE) link to 100G NEAAR connection between New York City and London

•

Adding more perfSONAR measurement nodes domestically and in Africa

CAMPUS NETWORKS •

Proceeding with ongoing upgrades to campus buildings from 1G to 10G connections at IU Bloomington and IUPUI

•

Improving cross-campus disaster recovery options for Data Center customers

•

Upgrading all regional campus connections from 1G to dual 10G connections

•

Continuing to upgrade wireless infrastructure, including implementing new guest wireless access points in campus housing

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