Purpose: Construct the LSST network design for the first phase of pre-operations by October 2019.

Team Members: 

  • Paul Wefel (Team lead), Kate Robinson, Gizella Kapus - ESnet
  • Jeronimo Bezerra - FIU/AmLight
  • Matt Kollross - NCSA
  • John Hicks - internet2 (tertiary path and Miami - Atlanta link until operations)

Ex officio/Management:

  • Julio Ibarra - FIU/AmLight
  • Kate Mace, Inder Monga - ESnet
  • Jeff Kantor - LSST
  • Wil O'Mullane - LSST
  • Phil Demar - FNAL


Goals of the implementation team:

  • Document the plan
    • Circuit layout record
      • handoffs, equipment, phy, fiber, etc
    • Layer 2 and Layer 3 specifics
    • Resiliency
    • Bill of materials
  • By FY2020 build the blue lines on the diagram below.
    • As of 10/10/2019 new target is 2/1/2020 due to delays in the comcam deployment (april 2020)
  • Acceptance testing
    • Miami to NCSA
    • Stretch goal: Telescope to NCSA

Artifacts:

Below: CONUS as-built as of 11/14/2019 

Meeting notes (Latest first):


Team Meeting:

When: 09/19/2019 -- 11:00AM PDT

Where: Zoom No. 928 133 2411

Who: KateR, Gizella, Jeronimo, John, Matt, Julio

Agenda:

  • What is in place today?
    • Single vlan from Chile to Miami and Miami to NCSA over Al2s
    • "meet-me" VRF in Miami for all the vlan circuits.
    • BGP peerings from Miami "meet-me" router to North (NCSA) and South (Chile)
  • Status on Atlanta gap
    • Christian at I2 is working on a quote to provide 2x10G ports for a year
    • SoX has built vlans 311 and 312 between AL2s and ESnet on their MAR56 router in Atlanta
    • ACTION: Jeronimo will build the AL2s circuits
    • ACTION: Kate will build the OSCARS circuits to Chicago
  • Discussion on testing and monitoring options
    • Fiona boxes are available
    • Could plumb perfsonar hosts
    • ESnet can test for errors by looping the path and using an Ixia
    • Comm-cam will generate low data rate streams
  • Any new news or updates the team should know about?
    • Nothing reported



Team Meeting:

When: 08/08/2019 -- 7:00AM PDT

Where: Zoom No. 928 133 2411

Who: Paul, Matt Kollross, John Hicks, Jeronimo Bezerra, Gizella

Agenda:

  • Team introductions and roles 
  • Current status of the network path between Miami and NCSA
  • Where are the holes?
  • How to document?
  • Next Steps.


Notes:

Team introductions and roles:

  • Matt Kollross
  • Paul Wefel
  • John Hicks
  • Jeronimo Bezerra
  • Gizella Kapus


Current status:

Refer to Jeronimo’s diagram (note, he’ll update the diagram and will distribute to the team)

VLAN going to Chicago (not decided) (310 to 320, among others) (ESnet: 311 & 312)

ACTION: John to find out ports

ACTION: John and Paul need to confirm ESnet/Internet2 ATL connection for group. 

BGP session with ESnet via Internet2 in Washington

ATL Peachtree (4th floor or ? floor)

Can FIU connect to Internet2 directly at Peachtree

AL2S in Jacksonville - AL2S is providing VLANs in Jacksonville to ATL

Need to understand all the physical connections and backup paths.

Diagram and document path: including equipment and ports

2 circuits from Jacksonville to ATL in OCT 2019 timeframe

Spectrum from Boca to ATL scheduled for next year.

Clarify: Backhaul to SOX, Will it be replaced? Do we need to expand the backhaul?

Documents: use LSST Confluence (CONUS Network Implementation Team page) 

ASK: Pennacola, Florida to somewhere -- a dedicated 100G for resiliency  -- Jeronimo asked if this topic should be a separate meeting between Jeronimo and John or part of the CONUS meeting.

Matt: 

  • NCSA connected to ESnet at 600 W Chicago
  • Matt will be requesting a dedicated wave from NCSA to 710 -- 
  • Ethernet Optical (ICCN-Ciena)  Out of ESnet’s optical as ethernet into NCSA Ciena as ethernet.


ACTION: Matt and John to verify VLANs 311 and 312 are available. 


Meeting ended at 7:38 AM PDT

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