WiL at 10Gbit/s DuRIP - Aug 2008
WiL receives DURIP to upgrade infrastructure.

New equipment is added to WiL - Aug 2008 .

Students use WiL - July 2008
More Caltech SURF/visiting students utilize WAN-in-Lab over summer.

TCP evaluation & benchmarking discussion at Caltech - 8-9 Nov 2007
TCP evaluation and benchmarking: round table discussion was hosted by WAN-in-Lab at Caltech. Some findings from these discussions were presented at PFLDnet2008 in March 2008.

69th IETF meeting in Chicago, IL - July 2007
IETF delegates continue discussing various internet issues, including benchmarking new protocols. Delegates were invited to use WAN-in-Lab for benchmarking new internet protocols.

WiL Media Wiki - May 2007
A Media Wiki has been added to the WAN-in-Lab website, to assist with documentation.

WAN-in-Lab site visit - February 9, 2007
PFLDnet2007 delegates visited WAN-in-Lab.
Lachlan Andrew of Netlab, co-chaired PFLDnet workshop in February 2007 at ISI (USC) in Marina Del Rey, LA.

WAN-in-Lab is connected to Ultralight - January 4, 2007
One of the long-term goals of the WAN-in-Lab team was to connect to the Ultralight network testbed used by high energy physicists. WAN-in-Lab now has a 10Gbps connection, through Ultralight's presence in Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Resources. This will allow much greater flexibility, and offer the possibility of running experiments in the presence of live cross-traffic.

Cisco ONS-XC-S1 Arrived - November 30, 2006
ONS-XC-S1 is a 10Gbps XFP module that runs SR over single mode fiber. These will be used with the 10Gb ONS transponder cards in WiL. We are hoping for several spans of 200-300km of total 10Gb connectivity.

2x XENPAK-10G-LR, LX4,SR Arrived - November 22-29, 2006
Long Range Xenpaks are here and allow for router to router connectivity. LX4 uses 4 wavelengths in DWDM over single mode or multimode to achieve 10GBs, It is a short range module which will be used to connect WiL to Ultralight in the next two weeks vi layer 3. LR uses single mode which will be attached to the Calient switch for use on the ONS network.SR uses multimode fiber and will be used to connect 10Gb servers to the routers. We currently have two 10Gb servers in WiL on loan that we will be using to test 10Gb traffic.

Copper 1Gbps Gbics added to Routers - November 8, 2006
Copper Gbics have been added to all routers, allowing more servers to be directly connected. We were also experiencing strange packet loss with Syskonnect gigabit multimode cards. The has gone away with using copper NICs, we suspect the problem to be driver or hardware related.

10Gb added to Routers! - November 6, 2006
Router C and Router D each now have a Cisco WS-6704-10GB. Each 6704 blade has 4x 10GB XENPAK ports which allow for SR, LR, LX4 modules. We two single mode XENPAK LR's that connect the routers to the ONS core, and are expecting XENPAK SR's for 10GB server connectivity.

Completed Cisco Upgrade Program: New Enhanced Transponders - October 15, 2006
Cisco has released a Field Notice 62358, which fixes as MOSFET failure on the 4x2.5Gb muxponder and also the 10GB Transponders. All of these cards were replaced with their respective Enhanced versions. Currently 12/13 ONS, and 18/24 spools of fiber are operational. WiL now achieves over 144ms of delay.

WiL finally has four physical hops - September 18, 2006
With four extra line cards, WiL now has four physical hops, forming a three node ring plus one external link. Many more virtual topologies now possible.

WiL now achieves over 120ms delay, in four virtual hops - June 26, 2006 10:55 PM
Virtual topology using IP-loopbacks allows flexible linear networks.

Calient optical switch installed - January 26, 2006 10:55 PM
Optical switch allows fiber segments to be switched in and out, varying both the topology and the delays.

WAN-in-Lab is project is proposed - 2004

Thanks to everyone at Cisco for helping us with WAN-in-LAB