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Project JAMES - January 1998

Mick Palfrey

JAMES Operational Board Chairman

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JAMES

Network Services Network Management Network Performance Other Activities/Issues

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London

Dublin

Amsterdam

Paris

Zurich

Koln

Milan

Vienna

MadridLisbon

Athens

Oslo

Copenhagen

Helsinki/TelecomFinland

Brussels

Luxembourg

Helsingborg

Helsinki/Finnet

Reykjavik

Tel-Aviv, Israel

JAMES Topology

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XCs used by JAMES

Newbridge 36170 Alcatel A1000AXSiemens EWSXpress Lucent AXC2000GDC Apex Siemens ATM-CC62Cisco LightStream 1010 Fore ASX-200BX

Switches from 7 different vendors

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Network Services Available

CBR VBR IP over ATM SVCs LANE SMDS

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MadridLisbon

Oslo

Cop.

Helsingborg

HelsinkiFinnet

Br.

Lux.

Dublin

Lon.

Amst.

Paris

Zur.

Koln

Milan

Vienna

HelsinkiTelecom Finland

ReykjavikService CapabilityCBR (all)IP over ATMVBR SVCsMulticast (ATM)SMDSLANE

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Milan

Telecom Finland

SVC connectivity

MadridLisbon

Oslo

Copenhagen

Helsingborg

HelsinkiFinnet

Brussels

Lux.

Dublin

London

Amsterdam

Paris

Zurich

Koln

Vienna

Helsinki

Reykjavik

IISP wef 11/9711/97 B-ISUP/IISP1/97 IISP

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Network Services not Achievedin JAMES Core

ABR (local tests started)

UBR (tests started) IP Multicast

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Network Management

Automated Reservation Electronic interchange of connection requests

Xcoop as above but including Network Element

Manager to configure end-end PVCs (where available)

implementation and test schedule in place (experiments still ongoing)

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Network Management (user)

WEB based Management Tools Customer Management Interface (CMI)

Customer connection requests, modifications etc.

Network Status Link and/or Node outages

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Network Performance

Extensive testing of JAMES network performed against I.356 standard

SVC set up delay measurements

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Network Performance

Example

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Network PerformanceConnection 5 - CER and I.356 objective

Overall results

1,E-10

1,E-09

1,E-08

1,E-07

1,E-06

1,E-05

1,E-04

1,E-03

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June

Period

CE

R

CER

I.356 CER

Trend

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Network PerformanceConnection 5 - CLR and I.356 objectives

Overall results

1,E-09

1,E-08

1,E-07

1,E-06

1,E-05

1,E-04

1,E-03

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June

Period

CL

R

CLR

I.356 class1 CLR

I.356 class2 CLR

Trend

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Network PerformanceConnection 5 - Availability Ratio

Overall results

0

90,00

99,00

99,90

99,99

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June

Period

AR (%)

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Other Activities

User Traffic Profiling for VBR service IP over ATM using SVCs Network Planning/Dimensioning Security

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VBR Overbooking TrialReserved Bandwidth for Jan '98 as at 16/01/98

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

5001

/01

03

/01

05

/01

07

/01

09

/01

11

/01

13

/01

15

/01

17

/01

19

/01

21

/01

23

/01

25

/01

27

/01

29

/01

31

/01

02

/02

04

/02

06

/02

Date

Number of projects

Reserved bandwidth (Mbs-1)

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Issues

Most users have used CBR PVCs only TEN-34 & MERCI use of advanced services

Actual throughput of data connections has been less than requested.