MAX/NASA/Juniper/Fujitsu 40 Gig Testing

Until 100 gigabit Ethernet interfaces becomes available, 40G SONET is considered the next step up in bandwidth from the 10G Ethernet in widespread use today. The research and education networking community may well start to see single and aggregate flows exceeding 10G in the next few years. 40G SONET is a mature standard that can help as bandwidth demand increases and it can be shown to successfully interoperate reliably between core routers and long-haul wave division multiplexing systems. This successful 4-party test demonstrated such interoperability.

Test Results (Thanks to Pat Gary & Bill Fink)

• 10/14/08 Sample

• Ethernet input stream

• Sonet output stream

• One Petabyte Test

Juniper Configuration (Thanks to Dave Diller)

• Sample Juniper T1600 MPLS Configuration

We would like to thank the project team: At MAX, Dan Magorian, PI, Dave Diller, lead project engineer along with Peter O'Neil, Quang Bach, Matt Siniscal, and Chris Tsonis; at NASA Bill Fink, lead bit blaster, along with J Pat Gary, Paul Lang, and Aruna Muppala; at Juniper, Marion Jackson III, lead equipment wrangler along with Vincent Farina and Paul Bateman; and at Fujitsu Craig Healey (who suggested the OC768c interface loan originally) along with Manjuel Robinson and Eric Niedert in the TAC.