CISL Annual Report 2005 > Production cyberinfrastructure plans

Network engineering and telecommunications plans

The primary NETS plans for 2006 include:

• Participate in the National LambdaRail (NLR) Project
• Plan and participate in the networking portion of the 2006 Mesa Lab Utilities Refurbishment (MLUR) Project
• Participate in the move of CGD into ML Tower B
• Plan and implement the Mesa Lab Network Access Completion (MLNAC) Project
• Participate in The Quilt Project

Networking research projects and technology tracking

See Networking research projects and technology tracking.

Local Area Network (LAN) projects

NETS supports both NCAR/UCAR network needs as well as the special networking needs of SCD itself. Therefore, all LAN projects are further subdivided as being either NCAR/UCAR LAN projects or SCD LAN projects.

NCAR/UCAR LAN projects

UCAR network infrastructure recabling projects:
The common goal of all UCAR recabling projects is to provide each workspace with a standard set of dedicated data communications links. The overall plan calls for each workspace to be provisioned with a standard Telecommunications Outlet (TO) that connects with four Category 6e (CAT6e) twisted-pair cables and two pairs of multi-mode optical fiber. Additionally, intra-building (trunk) cabling must be installed to concentrate all workspace cables to intermediate and central locations.

Concurrent with recabling, each network device is delivered 100 Mb/s of dedicated bandwidth via a dedicated Ethernet packet-switch port as well as a phone connection. Such dedicated-port access offers substantial networking performance improvement over shared-media Ethernet access.

UCAR network infrastructure recabling projects:
NETS will design and install permanent network infrastructure for the 2006 Mesa Lab Utilities Refurbishment (MLUR) Project, the Mesa Lab Network Access Completion (MLNAC) Project, the CG/FL bike path, the FL0 Computer Room, and the FL2 2095 Computer Room.

Network monitoring project:
NETS will convert to Nagios from HP Openview.

Local serial-access project:
See Local serial-access project.

NETS CSAC support project:
See NETS CSAC support project.

Multicast support activities project:
See Multicast support activities project.

UPS project:
See UPS project.

Grounding:
See Grounding.

Wireless:
See Wireless network access.

Voice over IP (VoIP):
See Voice over IP (VoIP).

SCD LAN projects

See SCD LAN projects.

Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) projects

Boulder Point-Of-Presence (BPOP):
See Boulder Point-Of-Presence (BPOP).

BRAN project:
See BRAN project.

Remote-working and home-access project:
See Remote-working and home-access project.

Dark fiber efforts:
NETS will continue to work on the Western Lights project to investigate fiber paths in the western U.S. including Utah to provide a protect path to the FRGP.

NETS will continue to work with CDOT, Colorado School of Mines, and Denver University to build a fiber ring to connect these sites to the FRGP.

NETS will continue to work with CSU, CSU-Pueblo, UC-Boulder, UC-CS, and UCDHSC to activate a southern fiber path connecting these sites to the FRGP with private fiber.

NETS will work with Fort Lewis College on implementing a GigE connection to the FRGP utilizing NLR.

Wide Area Network (WAN) projects

See Wide Area Network (WAN) projects.

Front Range GigaPOP (FRGP):
NETS will make significant improvements to the FRGP during 2006. These include:

1. Integrate BiSON and DREAM fiber rings.
2. Implement a plan to move Abilene OC12 to a private fiber path, saving $50K/year.
3. Implement a plan to move Qwest GigE to private fiber path, saving $50K/year.
4. Explore relocating Abilene connectivity to Seattle and Chicago using NLR.
5. Explore GigaPoP/Regional Optical Network (RON) Peering via NLR.
6. Design and implement a 10G national lambda network for NOAA using NLR.

The Quilt:
See The Quilt.

National LambdaRail (NLR):
NETS has completed its connection to NLR and will activate services over the NLR infrastructure.

vBNS+ :
See vBNS+.

Internet2/Abilene:
See Internet2/Abilene.

Other network projects

Projects listed in this section are ones that don't neatly fit into the Research, LAN, MAN, or WAN project classification scheme.

Telecommunications:
See Telecommunications.

Westnet:
See Westnet.

Project-tracking system:
See Project-tracking system.

Property-tracking system:
See Property-tracking system.

Business continuity:
See Business continuity.

Documentation:
See Documentation.

NETS NCAB project:
See NETS NCAB project.

Committee support

See Committee support.