MAGPI Standard Network Designs for Subscriber Connections

Subscriber Connection Type

Subscriber connection to MAGPI should be one of the following:

Carrier provisioned circuits:
- Packet-over-SONET at OC-3, OC-12
- DS3 using PPP encapsulation
Dark Fiber:
- Packet-over SONET at OC-3, OC-12
- Fast Ethernet, rate limited to subscribed bandwidth
- Gigabit Ethernet, rate limited to subscribed bandwidth
Layer 2 Metropolitan Ethernet service provider:
- Currently this category includes regional providers such as Yipes and FASTNET. The provisioned connection should be guaranteed bandwidth (ie. not oversubscribed). It is usually a Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet connection, rate limited to the subscribed bandwidth.

Subscriber connection termination point

Subscriber's connection (also known as the "access circuit" or "local loop circuit") must terminate at one of MAGPI's two access router locations:

9th Floor, Switch & Data Facilities Corporation,
401 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia
Vagelos Labs Building, University of Pennsylvania campus
3340 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Peering and Routing Policy Requirements

Subscriber should peer with MAGPI using BGP-4.

Routes that MAGPI advertises to the subscriber are:

Routes received from MAGPI connected institutions
MAGPI's internal routes
Abilene and other Internet2 routes, if subscriber is an Internet2 participant institution.
Commodity Internet routes, if the subscriber is purchasing commodity internet access.

Routes that MAGPI accepts from subscriber and redistributes:

MAGPI accepts all routes received from subscriber. These routes will be carried within MAGPI and advertised to other MAGPI subscribers. In addition, if the subscriber is an Internet2 participant, then the customers routes will be advertised to Abilene. If only selected subscriber routes qualify for Internet2 participation, then only those routes will be advertised. If subscriber is purchasing commodity internet access, then subscriber's routes will be advertised to MAGPI's commodity ISP peers.

MAGPI Routing and Peering Information

MAGPI's AS (Autonomous System) number is: 10466. The following BGP communities are in use within MAGPI. Not all routes are visible to all MAGPI subscribers.

    INTERNET2 ROUTES: ABILENE                                   10466:5080;
    ISP ROUTES: COGENT COMMUNICATIONS                           10466:5095;
    ISP ROUTES: COGENT COMMUNICATIONS - OUTBOUND                10466:110;
    ISP ROUTES: DCANET                                          10466:5050;
    ISP ROUTES: UUNET                                           10466:5040;
    ISP ROUTES: YIPES COMMUNICATIONS                            10466:5070;
    MAGPI GIGAPOP INTERNAL ROUTES                               10466:1000;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: CHESTER COUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNIT         10466:1045;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: CTI                                      10466:1060;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: JOHNSON & JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICALS        10466:1040;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: LEHIGH UNIVERSITY                        10466:1020;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY                     10466:1020;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA               10466:1010;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: WIDENER UNIVERSITY                       10466:1070;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY                        10466:1080;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER                  10466:1090;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: CAPE                                     10466:1025;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY		10466:1027;
    SUBSCRIBER ROUTES: ARCADIA UNIVERSITY                       10466:1095;

IP Multicast Routing (Optional)

MAGPI provides native multicast peering using the following protocols: MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol), MBGP (Multi-protocol BGP) and PIM-SM v2 (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode, version 2). MAGPI currently has native multicast peering with the Abilene/Internet2 backbone network and several MAGPI member institutions.

Note: MAGPI does not provide a PIM-SM Rendezvous Point. Customers should configure a Rendezvous Point within their network. Additionally, customers should configure filters on their edge routers for the administratively scoped multicast range (239/8) and PIM BSR (Bootstrap Router) messages.

IP Version 6 (IPv6) Connectivity (Optional)

MAGPI can provide native IPv6 connectivity to subscribers. MAGPI routes IPv6 inside it's own network and peers natively with Abilene's IPv6 service and thus to the rest of the global IPv6 network. Customers requesting IPv6 connectivity will be allocated a /48 sized address space from MAGPI.

Note: MAGPI does not provide tunnelled IPv6 connectivity to subscribers. Subscriber's who wish to obtain IPv6 connectivity are required to have a border router capable of routing IPv6 natively.

MAGPI Contact Information

        MAGPI Network Operations Center (NOC)
        Office Number 215-746-4NOC
        Pager Number (Voice mail at office number will page Tech)
        Email Address noc@magpi.net
        This is your Primary Technical Contact

        Name Jeff Edwards
        Title NOC Manager
        Office Number 215-573-0816
        Cell Number 215-669-2170
        Email Address jsedward@isc.upenn.edu
        This is your Secondary Technical Contact

info@magpi.net, Last Updated: 2002-12-16