NETWORK & CLOUD INITIATIVES

Robin Winsor

Agenda

• Company description

• Current projects

• Expansion of client base

• Drivers for CI extension

• Barriers to adoption

• Solutions

History

• WURCnet

• Netera

• Cybera

Current Projects

• Sensor Networks

• Earth Observation

• Space Weather

• Radio Astronomy

• Westgrid

• GreenStar Network

• MoboVivo

• Water Hub

• ESRI / CSPG

• Medical Research

• Data Gardens

Cloud Services for Water Management

Explore use of cloud

services to store,

manipulate and expose

data related to water

management

Link and correlate a wide

variety of data from a

large number of sources

Cloud-based analysis

and visualization tools

$ / User

# of

use

rs4,000,000

Next Generation Needs

• Exascale computing

Next Generation Needs

• DIYBio

New Initiatives

• Publicly available cyberinfrastructure (CI) utilities

– Broadband enablement

– Innovation support

– Economic drivers

Demand For Network Services

• Academic

– Growing but well served

– Funding difficulties

Demand For Network Services

• Academic

– Growing but well served

– Funding difficulties

• Public

– Urban• Growing but well served

– Rural• Grossly under-served

Lab

$ / User

# of

use

rs4,000,000

Community

Olds, Alberta•7,200 residents•3,200 Homes & Businesses•College

“The Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development Technology Committee has a vision to make Olds the small and medium enterprise capital of Alberta built on superior cyberinfrastructure.

The OICRD is currently building a private fiber network that will connect every home and business in the community.”

- Norman McInnis, Chief Administrative Officer for Olds

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

“…study ranks Canada 19th worldwide in overall Internet access.”Harvard University Berkman Center Feb 2010

“If we do not act with haste, the innovations that could employ our future work force could well pass us by”Globe and Mail editorial Feb 2010

“Governments must regard the internet as basic infrastructure - just like roads, waste and water”

- Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union

Population Density(Population / Sq Km)

Alberta – Population Distribution

Cost to Connect ($/month)

Rural Urban

Speed (Mbps) Satellite Wireless Cable

1.0 70

1.5 100 49

3.0 65

5.0 89

10 47

26 70

50 100

Federal Initiatives

• Canada’s Economic Action Plan

– $225M • Broadband Canada – Connecting Rural Canadians• $76.9M for first 52 projects

Federal Initiatives

HomesHomes

HomesHomes

BusinessesBusinesses

Businesses

Distribution Point

ContentCo.

SuperNetSuperNet

Satellite Farm

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Commercial Cloud

Commercial Cloud

SuperNet

SuperNet

Cybera Pilot Cloud

Cybera Pilot Cloud

SuperNetSuperNet

Distributed Virtual Resources and the WAVE

21 3

Active Virtual Resource

Hidden Replica

Legend

Synchronization

4

21

3 4

Virtual Resource Migration

1. Periodic atomic updates to one or more DR sites2. Branch or regional offices survive WAN failures

3. Incremental re-synch upon network restoration

Disaster Recovery and Business Process Protection

Central Data Center

Secondary Data Center

Regional Site

Active Passive

New Initiatives

• Network access cost reduction

– Peering• Service improvement• Network efficiency

– Academic cost reduction

– Commercial possibilities

The Internet

U of AU of A

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

GoogleGoogle FacebookFacebook

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The Internet

CyberaCybera

U of AU of A U of CU of C etc,…etc,…

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

GoogleGoogle FacebookFacebook

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering

“Peering is a voluntary interconnection of

administratively separate Internet networks for the

purpose of exchanging traffic between the

customers of each network “

Also known as settlement-free peering

What is Peering?

04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 36

The Internet + Internet Exchanges

Cybera Cybera

U of AU of A U of CU of C etc,…etc,…

Large ISP

Large ISP Large

ISPLarge ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

GoogleGoogle FacebookFacebook

IX SwitchIX Switch

MicrosoftMicrosoft

AkamaiAkamai$$

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• Google is the single largest content provider

• Many Google services, incl Youtube.com

• 1Gb/s private connection between BCNET and

Google

• IPv6 and IPv4

Private peering Google

04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 38