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    RENATER WDM Infrastructure: Deployment and Usages

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    RENATER is the French academic network with 30 Points of Presence (POPs) across France. RENATER-4 is the current phase which uses dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) on dark fiber links between POPs to support high bandwidth research projects. The DWDM network provides up to 16 wavelengths of 10Gbps each on links up to 600km. It has been deployed in stages, with some challenges in configuring amplifiers due to differences between estimated and actual fiber attenuation values. The DWDM network currently supports several large research projects but may also carry general IP traffic once a meshed fiber architecture is implemented.

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    RENATER is the French academic network with 30 Points of Presence (POPs) across France. RENATER-4 is the current phase which uses dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) on dark fiber links between POPs to support high bandwidth research projects. The DWDM network provides up to 16 wavelengths of 10Gbps each on links up to 600km. It has been deployed in stages, with some challenges in configuring amplifiers due to differences between estimated and actual fiber attenuation values. The DWDM network currently supports several large research projects but may also carry general IP traffic once a meshed fiber architecture is implemented.

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    RENATER is the French academic network with 30 Points of Presence (POPs) across France. RENATER-4 is the current phase which uses dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) on dark fiber links between POPs to support high bandwidth research projects. The DWDM network provides up to 16 wavelengths of 10Gbps each on links up to 600km. It has been deployed in stages, with some challenges in configuring amplifiers due to differences between estimated and actual fiber attenuation values. The DWDM network currently supports several large research projects but may also carry general IP traffic once a meshed fiber architecture is implemented.

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    RENATER WDM infrastructure : deployment and usages

    Franck Simon RENATER


    Technical manager Franck.Simon@renater.fr

    CEF workshop

    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.
    CEF workshop 2

    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

    CEF workshop

    RENATER-4 : dark fibre infrastructure

    Kehl

    CERN

    CERN

    Dark fibres
    CBF extension planned CEF workshop

    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

    CEF workshop

    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

    8
    Lyon 5 & 6

    8 8

    8x10GE

    251km

    Lyon 7

    8
    Lyon 5

    222km
    8x10GE

    Grenoble

    8
    Toulouse Montpellier Marseille Nice

    8 CEF workshop

    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

    CEF workshop

    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.

    CEF workshop

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