April 29, 2009
The Transport Working Group recommends that the current Phoebus deployment be completed by adding depots at DC, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake and Seattle. Members within the group have recently been experimenting with the service in a variety of contexts including transport within distributed storage networks such as REDDnet and interactive visualization applications. These experiments have indicated that Phoebus can provide significant improvements in performance. In addition to recommending completion of the deployment the Transport group recommends that the NOC begin regular monitoring of the operational state of the depots and that tools be created to allow experimenters to determine whether the Phoebus Depots are operational over a given path. Lastly, understanding that a complete 10G deployment may be cost-prohibitive, support of 10G Phoebus nodes in strategic locations, for e.g. international peering, should be considered.