Post on 20-Aug-2015
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Agenda
• Company description
• Current projects
• Expansion of client base
• Drivers for CI extension
• Barriers to adoption
• Solutions
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
New Initiatives
• Publicly available cyberinfrastructure (CI) utilities
– Broadband enablement
– Innovation support
– Economic drivers
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
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
HomesHomes
HomesHomes
BusinessesBusinesses
Businesses
Distribution Point
ContentCo.
SuperNetSuperNet
Satellite Farm
Cyb
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Cyb
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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
• IPv6 and IPv4
Private peering Google
04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 38