What is CANARIE?

CANARIE runs Canada’s only national high-bandwidth network for research & education

• Connects one million users at 1,100 institutions • 19,000 km of fibre and 100 Gbps capability• International connections to 100 countries and over 100 peer networks

CANARIE works with provincial partners to:

• Connect every Canadian university• 62 hospitals and health networks• Canada’s “big science” facilities like TRIUMF, NEPTUNE, CLS, SNOLAB• All the Networks of Centres of Excellence • 103 colleges, 49 CGEPs, thousands of high schools

Primary investment is from Government of Canada

• $470M from 1993 to 2012

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Federal 40%

Provincial20%

User fees 40%

Sources of Funding:Canada’s R&E Network

The Big Picture

National Research and Education

Network

Delivers on national digital

economy strategy

Supports international relations and

reputation

Orchestrates national

conversation

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Private sector will not step in, as there is no profitable business case given the significantly different characteristics of R&E networks

Private sector carriers are supportive of CANARIE as a public good to advance research

CANARIE purchases leading edge technology from the private sector, but does not compete with industry

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Equality of network across Canada enables all regions to access research services everywhere and complements successful federal-provincial collaboration

NRENs Around the World

Projected Research Traffic Growth

7Source: CANARIE internal

Annual research traffic is forecasted to continue to grow at 50% per year.

This calls for a tenfold increase in network bandwidth during the mandate period.

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

6,192 6,717 12,692 19,032 28,833

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Current Capacity The current network capacity will be exceeded by mid-2012.

Actual research traffic growth from 2007-2010 was 284%.

Three elements of CANARIE’s mandate renewal

The Network• To foster tomorrow’s scientific research

Technology Innovation• To improve access to research data and tools

DAIR – Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research• To develop industry and technology capability and foster a

growing, competitive, knowledge-based economy

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1. The Network

Support of tomorrow’s

digital research

Pan-Canadian

fibre network

Capacity build-out to

meet growing demand

Wireless Access

Northern Connection

Campus IPV6

program

Canadian Access

Federation

Content Peering

Support for Provincial

Partner Networks

Extend network to

more research

institutions

2. Harmonizing digital infrastructure

Working in collaboration to developing a compelling vision for integrated digital infrastructure that supports Canada’s scientists and researchers.

What resourcing and governance is

required?

What other players need to be involved?

Team developing position paper

WorldLeadingDigital

Infrastructure

2. Harmonizing researcher access to digital resources

Proposal for CANARIE’s next mandate:

Develop a generic researcher desktop tool

Result: accelerated research outcomes

Wi-Fi, Wire line Access

University ORANs & Federal

GigaPOP

Small/Medium

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Macro Wireless

Wi-Fi, Wire line Access

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3. Digital testbed

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What does CANARIE do next?

Expand the horizons of Canadian scientists and researchers, grow their access to Big Science projects, and increase and international collaboration

Federal investments of $3.7B annually in research would be more effective via the “network effect”

Ability to attract and retain top talent to Canada

Overall cost of network services be centralized thereby lowering costs

Growth of leading-edge networked research enhances improvements in the health, social, and economic well-being of Canadians

Canada’s private sector would gain access to a key test bed to stimulate ICT innovation in Canada

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University IT organizations are like snowflakes

Varying degrees of centralization/decentralizatio

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Different mandates (operations, customer

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Different funding models (national, provincial, local)

Variable emphasis (admin, teaching, research)

The only technology they really share is the the

network

CANARIE can leverage the network to create shared services

Research growth

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Humanities and social sciences

“Discovering” computing

Graphics, video, etc.

Medical and health sciences

3D imaging

Real time diagnostics

Traditional sciences and engineering

Exponential data volume growth

Data management

Backup, restore

Archive, protect

CANARIE must continually grow the network

Research computing growth

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Why run HPC computing on campus?

Rationalize HPC from 27 to 2 data centres

If 80% of research computing is non-HPC

The cloud is not in Canada

Protection of Privacy, national competitiveness

issues

Build Canadian cloud services

In both environments, the network makes it happen

CANARIE can be the enabling catalyst of integration

Grow Canadian Access Federation

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EduRoam

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Expand to full community, not simply Universities

Passive EduRoam

Shibbolized NEP projects

CAF drives national identity initiative

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Manufacturing is declining

What is unique about Canada?

Vast renewable hydro-electric power

Cooling is cheaper the farther north you go

GreenStar network innovations via follow the

wind, follow the sun

CANARIE backbone

All the elements needed to attract future growth

In summary, CANARIE will:

Renew Operate Innovate

Collaborate Diversify Improve