[103580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Apr 7 13:20:00 2008
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:53:34 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
cc: NANOG NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0804070806330.35@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Glen Kent wrote:
> > says the solemn headline of Telegraph.
> > .. and we in Nanog are still discussing IPv6! ;-)
>
> It's because we don't have a hadron demolition derby to power our American
> interwebs:
>
> "The power of the grid will be unlocked this summer with the switching
> on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)."
I doubt it:
http://www.geant2.net/server/show/nav.00d00h001003
"The structure of the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) is to distribute the data
first to 12 Tier 1 sites, each connected to Tier 0 (CERN) by a dedicated
wavelength switched path of 10Gbps. These paths are provided by the new
hybrid (IP routed/ wavelength switched) structure of G?ANT2. Corresponding
dark-fibre lightpaths will be provided by each of the European NRENs
involved."
So within Europe, much of the LHC data will move via paths that not even
part of the Internet/Geant2 infrastructure:
http://www.geant2.net/upload/pdf/PUB-07-179_GN2_Topology_Jan_08_final.pdf
Just look for the black links which are all dark fiber out of Switzerland.
Also, LHC will generate 15Petabytes per annum - not Gigabytes or Terabytes
as some media have stated.
-Hank
