UW Networking in a Nutshell
Terry Gray
UW Computing & Communications
16 October 2000 (rev 19 Dec)
Scope: UW Net (3 campuses, 2 hospitals) + UWPN + K20 + PNWGP + SNNAP
Ideology: No ATM, no VLANs, route only IP
UW-Seattle:
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Goal: pervasive switched 10/100 FD,
with GE access as needed
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Reality:
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Buldings: 150 connected...
but only about 20 are Cat 5
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Subnets: Nearly 300 dept'l subnets...
but fewer than half are switched
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Accounts: over 100,000
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Machines: Nearly 50,000
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Dialin: 2200 modems
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Remote sites: approx 50
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Main backbone: 4 GE switches; 38 BB routers; 2 BR
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Research backbone: Separate GE infrastructure
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BB Traffic: Nearly 1 TB/day on production backbone
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WAN Traffic: (Commodity + HPNSP) peaking near 100Mbps
- even without HD/IP experiments
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Multicast: PIM-SM interoperability problems (solved)
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Wireless: Starting to deploy 802.11b
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DiffServ: mostly moot until FD FE is pervasive
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IPv6: waiting for a forcing function (& Microsoft)
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