NSFNET Transition Update -- NorthWestNet

Steve Corbato

NorthWestNet

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• Slides from this talk
• Stan Barber's Notes
• Feb 1995 NANOG Home Page

Slides from this talk

Slide contents are Copyright &169; 1995 by NorthWestNet and Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Inc. and are reproduced by permission.

Status Report on NorthWestNet's National Backbone Transition

Steve Corbato
NorthWestNet
NANOG-Boulder
February 9, 1995

Background

Two ASes:

• AS73 - University of Washington
• AS685 - NorthWestNet

Home of

• airjordan.com
• billg@microsoft.com

CoREN involvement

Coalition of seven NSFNET regional networks

• BARRNET
• NEARNET
• CICNet
• MIDnet
• NorthWestNet
• SESQUINET
• SURAnet

Summer, 1994: Selected MCI as NSP

Joint Technical Committee

• CoREN Technical Committee and MCI IP Development Group
• Monitoring MCI backbone deployment
• Developing CoREN Acceptance Test Plan
• Coordinating regional transition issues
• Weekly conference calls and two one-day meetings

Transition Chronology

September 8, 1994

NWNet/MCI contract completed

September 26, 1994

NWNet/MCI IP connectivity established

October 5, 1994

NWNet/MCI BGP peering

November and December, 1994

CoREN Acceptance Test Plan work

November 25, 1994

NWNet performance testing starts

January 19, 1995

AS685 transitions to MCInet for intra-MCI R&E connectivity (Type A)

January 22, 1995

AS73 completes its Type A transition

Testing and Monitoring

Backbone and local loop DS3 throughput

Test hosts in NWNet, SESQUINET, and NC/REN

Latency and packet loss

Daily testing

Backbone routing table monitoring

Spare border routers taking full routes from ANS and MCI

Enhanced monitoring of national backbone throughput

Monitoring of MCI exchange points

Sprint NAP, MAE-EAST+, ANS/Hayward, CIX

Transition status

~40% of NWNet national backbone traffic now traversing MCInet

Anticipating completion of CoREN/MCI Acceptance Test

Interconnectivity concerns

Federal Internets
West Coast interconnectivity: MAE-WEST, CIX-SMDS

Stan Barber's Notes

NorthWestNet serves the northwestern United States including Alaska. NorthWestNet is part of CoREN. NorthWestNet does not want to transition fully to MCI until there is at least one interconnection point on the West Coast (and preferably more than one).