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HPIIS Performance Review

October 25, 2000

Jim Williams

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The Global Research Network Operations Center (Global NOC) at Indiana University manages the international network

connections from advanced research and education networks in the Asia/Pacific, Europe, Russia and South America to the

Science Technology and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) and the leading US high performance research and

education networks.

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Global NOC

• Benefits– Cost efficiencies

– Leverage

– Project cooperation

• NOC specifics– NOC Web pages

– NOC functions

• Future plans

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Cost efficiencies

Given the existing 24x7x365 IU and Abilene NOCs…

• Global NOC operational model is based on:

– offering a template of services

– assigning an area specialist for each network

– cross training for all staff on all shifts

• Both fixed and marginal costs to add a new network are limited and quantifiable

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Leverage

• Leverages NSF investment in HPIIS Program funded connections to provide a single integrated source of NOC support

• Ability to access the best technical personnel from Indiana University, STAR TAP and Abilene and the partner networks.

• Efficiencies of common NOC personnel

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Project Cooperation

• Common HPIIS external appearance– Coordinated reports– Coordinated Web pages

• Shared tool development

• Cooperative engineering interaction

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Tour of Global NOC Web pages

• TransPAC http://noc.transpac.org/

• STAR TAP http://noc.startap.net/

• Euro-Link http://noc.euro-link.org/

• MIRnet http://noc.mirnet.org/

• AMPATH http://noc.ampath.net/

• Abilene http://www.abilene.iu.edu/

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Global NOC Functions

• Problem reporting, monitoring, resolution

• Report generation, distribution, archiving

• Web page development, maintenance

• Tool development, maintenance

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Illustration of NOC functions

• Network Performance

• http://globalnoc.iu.edu

• Network Reporting

• http://globalnoc.iu.edu

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Global NOC Future Plans

• Continued Web page development

• Packaging and deployment of MIRnet traffic analysis tool

• Deployment of Abilene multicast tools

• NOC process analysis

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Global NOC Future Plans(continued)

• Closer linkage between other NOCs (vBNS, ESNET, Canarie, APAN) to increase tool sharing and process cooperation

• Closer linkage with national tool and measurement efforts

• Development of NOC Knowledge Base

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http://globalnoc.iu.edu/

williams@iu.edu