International Task Force Meeting

6 May 2002

Australian Update and OverviewGeorge McLaughlin

AARNet – Australia’s Academic & Research Network

Has PoPs in each of Australia’s State and Territory Capital Cities (8 in all)

Provides commodity as well as R&E connections to member universities and research bodies

Does not receive Australian Govt Funding for its operations – ie is fully user-pays

Is required to fully comply with the Australian telecommunications regulatory regime – holds a carrier licence

Canberra

Darwin

AdelaidePerth

Brisbane

Sydney

Hobart

AARNet Backbone

Melbourne

AARNet Pty Ltd (APL)

Not-for-profit company limited by shares

Shareholders are the universities and CSIRO

Shareholders are also clients

R&E network expansion funded from a surcharge on commodity traffic

APL Structure

APL Board

Executive Director

Business Unit

Development Unit

Production Unit

AARNet Advisory

Committee

Technical Working Parties

Project Implementation Groups

Shareholders - Members

Members & Clients

International Research and Education NetworksAARNet has deployed it’s own capacity to the advanced networks of North America, and later to the Asia Pacific – from these also to Europe and the rest of the worldIs now peering directly peer directly at PacificWave with:

AbileneCA*Net3TransPacTANetESNetDREN

Participates in ITNFuture Plans

AARNet’s International ConnectionsCurrent and Planned

Singapore

South Asia

Middle East

Europe

Europe

APAN

Abilene

CANet

GEANT

StarTap

Fiji

GlobalGRID

Forum

SouthAmerica

AARNet

International Transit

Network

Japan

New Zealand

Taiwan

Hawaii SLO

Seattle

PNG

SydneyPerth

Technology deploymentEnd-to-end Performance Measurement and Monitoring

AARNet has had extensive passive measurement/monitoring for some time, now participating in NLANR AMP

Multicastimplemented, multicast peering with Abilene, wider distribution within AARNet and GrangeNet next – facilitated Australia’s participation in SC2001

IPv6 – rollout in next few monthsVoice-over-IP

National deployment already in place, switching 16,000 calls per day – wide distribution of H323 gatekeepers within Australia, QoS deployed, toll quality – also working on SIP

Video-over-IPInitial H323 deployment successful, scaling to national rollout – will work with VideNet, I2 Commons, SurfNet

New Carrier Services AARNet holds a carrier licence and this has the

potential to provide other opportunities resulting from nominated carrier declarations and inter carrier agreements

Has commissioned a fibre-layer to lay new ducts and fibre, owned by AARNetActs as nominated carrier on behalf of MembersCan gain access to ducts and towers of other carriersWorking with power utililities and rail authorities to explore opportunities (use of fibre and rights of way)Intercarrier agreements and wholesale costs

Australian Advanced Networks ProgramThree programs funded by Aust Govt– total grants $AU37million, leveraged funding ~$AU100millionGrangeNet – consortium with AARNet as lead agency also APAC, DSTC, Powertel and Cisco

2x2.5Gbps wavelengths between Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne based on Cisco DWDM, 12410 and 7600 series routers, GbE tails, advanced communication and grid services, associated middleware to support a variety of communities of users

CeNTIE network research backbone Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth (10Gbps lambda), local fibre in Sydney and Perth

MNet – Focus on advanced wireless technologies

GrangeNet: GRid And Next GEneration

Network

Supported by the Australian Federal Government’s BITS Advanced Networks Program

GrangeNet AimsDevelop next generation of communications networks and services (‘AARNet3-4’)Provide infrastructure to integrate high-performance computing and visualisation systems (‘APAC Grid’)Support distributed ‘User Communities’ with demanding applications Promote cooperation between industry and research organisationsFacilitate business development based on advanced communications products and services

Perth

Brisbane

SydneyCanberra

Adelaide

Melbourne

Darwin

Internationalnetworks

Hobart

GrangeNet Backbone

BackboneAARNet links

Tail site Cisco 7609 OSR Cisco GSR12410 Cisco ONS15801

2x2.5Gbps DWDM

1 GbE linkDual 155Mbps STM-1

4x2.5Gbps DWDM

AARNetSCCN link

Sydney

Canberra

Melbourne

Brisbane

GrangeNet Network

GrangeNet- Open Infrastructure for Australiaconsortium – AARNet APAC DSTC Cisco Powertel

Grid Services

Advanced Communications Services

Specialised, Regional and International Networks

User Communities

GrangeNet Network

HealthBio-

informaticsFilm & Media etc

Pacific Innovation Corridor CeNTIE MNet

etc

Education

Internet2CanarieAPAN

Advanced Communications ServicesQuality of Service

Routing

Multicast

Security

Management and Accounting

Measurement

Caching

IPv6

Grid Services

Middleware Software

User Communities

CollaborativeVisualisation

DistributedComputing

DigitalLibraries

CooperativeEnvironments

Advanced Communications Services

RemoteInstruments

GrangeNet Plans for Grid ServicesDistributed Computing

Install Globus on major computing facilitiesDemonstrate distributed computing applications

Collaborative VisualisationConnect several Virtual Reality systems

engineering design of manufactured productsbio-molecular modelling and visualisation

Cooperative EnvironmentsInstall Access Grid nodes in 4 cities

first one at Sydney VisLab for SC GlobalDigital Libraries

Provide access to large-scale international datasetsbio-informatics, astronomy, earthquakes, earth observation

Remote InstrumentsConnect major electron microscope facilities

major national research facility

User CommunitiesNews and Media Distribution (Education)Computational Chemistry and BiologyComputational PhysicsHigh-Energy PhysicsAstronomy and AstrophysicsBio-informaticsEnvironmental ModellingOn-line HealthEducation and TrainingFilm and MediaManufacturing

International Science CollaborationsGlobal Grid and AP Grid ForumsHealth applications AstronomyPeer-to-Peer computingAccess GridsLocation independence and need to access resources and collaborate with others elsewhere in the world

SummaryAn Australian backbone in 2002

multi-Gigabit DWDM network increased capacity to international R&E networks

GrangeNet will develop advanced communications and grid services for a range of user communitiesGrangeNet will strengthen international collaboration on R&E networks

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