Smart Services CRC participant meeting talk

AARNet Copyright 2011

Network Operations

AARNet’s future thinking on Smarter Online Services

beyond the NBN and what SSCRC can do to make it become a reality

SSCRC Participants Meeting

James Sankar


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What I will cover today• AARNet + roadmap• Trends + response • SSCRC and AARNet engagement today • SSCRC future


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AARNet - massive growth from early beginnings


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National Backbone


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Australia’s advanced R&E Network today


Our Environment: Key Trends – opps/threats

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NBN – in Australia and overseas

(Singapore, US)

GlobalisationUser expectations of

connectedness anywhere

Mobilitysmart phone access,

data capabilities outpacing PCs

Virtualisation - faster models - rapid business development

Cloud: large companies delivering advantage e.g., Google, Microsoft, Amazon.

Social networks & virtual worlds

Personal e.g., FacebookProfessional e.g.,

LinkedInSecond Life + SLoodle

Video: dominating voice traffic

E Research Model targeted government funding


Trend 1 - Extracting Value from the Cloud based Services

• Applications, content and services located in specialised facilities optimised for public, private, hybrid “cloud” distribution (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, CaaS)

• Commercial brands - Google, Amazon, Microsoft• Benefits include ubiquity, scale, flexibility, skills,

DR, cost• Risks include security, service availability,

consistent performance and data residency• Places an increasing reliance on networks

(locally, nationally and internationally)



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(Singapore, US)



Mobilitysmart phone access, data capabilities

outpacing PCs




Personal e.g., Facebook

Professional e.g., LinkedIn

Second Life + SLoodle




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Trend 2 - Unified Communications

• “Communications as a Service” since 2006– Online service booking system to shared services– Video Rooms > Telepresence

• Unified Communications - ACME• Personal Video – Vidyo, ViVu, EVO• Hi-Res video – Polycom, LifeSize, Cisco, Sony

etc• Visualisations


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Cloud based video services to Schools


“The Great Debate” - in real time!

Should Australia have a mandatory internet filter...?

ACT v Tasmania


Remote Microscopy @ 4K resolutionUSC to Calit2


From Video to Telepresence

• Polycom - AARNet Sydney, AARNet Canberra, Curtin University - installed

• Huawei TP unit opportunity for AARNet Melbourne (April 2011)

• Cisco Telepresence Exchange (confirmation shortly)

• Use– Point-to-Point– Via Multipoint via Polycom

RMX4000 HD MCU– Via Multipoint via Codian HD

MCU– Via Cisco Telepresence – in

detailed discussions on latest offer


Communications Interoperability is the key!

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B2B video calling starting soon

• Concept: Be able to dial another person at another connected institution and hear and see them as you would staff in your own enterprise



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(Singapore, US)



Mobilitysmart phone access,

data capabilities outpacing PCs




Personal e.g., FacebookProfessional e.g.,

LinkedInSecond Life + SLoodle




Trend 3 – Ubiquitous Broadband Access

• Students come with own mobile devices expecting to connect seamlessly

• Visiting scholars, researchers bound by policies at institutions

• different wireless networks on campus leads to duplication, waste, security gaps

• Overseas campuses access in another language or require expensive data roaming access.

• Eduroam is at 34 institutions in Australia now plus others in New Zealand, PNG

It is now more than ever about facilitating mobile device access


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Could the foresight machine create synergy/vision within SSCRC?


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Could access to video services drive collaborations better?


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Can we do better? New ways forward?

• Can we down tools and look at what we are doing from time-to-time?

• Can we innovate under the 10/4 performance rule? Innovate solutions that cost 10 times less and deployed 4 times faster? Within a 30 day timeframe? (The Strategically Focused and tactically Agile CIO)

• Can we apply what we have to the real world now to engage?

• Launch48 then taking part in building a business over 48 hours... but with the added bonus of being in a virtual team! entrepreneurs come along: http://www.surroundus.com/showcase/launch48/

Fri, Apr 01 to Sun, Apr 03 Deloitte, Melbourne, VIC, AU

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Smart Services CRC participant meeting talk