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Martin Hamilton & Jeremy Sharp, Jisc
The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures
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January2015
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Themes
The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures
1. Back to the future
2. Trends and signifiers
3. Prototype to production
4. IT as Innovation in Technology
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Themes
The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures
1. Back to the future
2. Trends and signifiers
3. Prototype to production
4. IT as Innovation in Technology
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Back to the future
Hands up if you remember:
› SERCNET, X.25 PADs
› nfsnet-relay
› Coloured Books, NRS
› PP & QUIPU
› JIPS/Shoestring
– UKNOF Internet History Project:http://www.uknof.org.uk/history.html
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Back to the future
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Hands up if you remember:
› Vampire Taps
› DIY thin ethernet using TVcoax cabling
› Trumpet WinSock
› Mosaic
› Archie, Gopher, WAIS, …
› WaveLAN
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Back to the future
Consolidation post Y2K:– Gigabit Ethernet (then 10GigE)– Structured cabling– IP telephony– Wireless goes mainstream– Student residences– eduroam– Support via LAN/MAN, SRIF
› The network (LAN and WAN) is now“mission critical” for everyone
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Themes
The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures
1. Back to the future
2. Trends and signifiers
3. Prototype to production
4. IT as Innovation in Technology
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Trends and signifiers
Shared data centre:
› £900K HEFCE investment
› Anchor tenants: Crick, KCL, LSE, QMUL, Sanger, UCL– www.jisc.ac.uk/shared-data-centre
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Trends and signifiers
Amazon cloud portal:› Monthly invoicing - credit cards are no
longer required for payment
› Itemized billing - consolidated across users/departments
› Billing in GBP, not dollars
› Setting of budget limits for individual user accounts or departments
› The retrieval of service usage information within own areas of responsibility
› Volume-discounts through aggregation across multiple educational institutions
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www.ja.net/amazon
Trends and signifiers
Moonshot:› Single, unifying technology that enables
you to effectively manage and control access to a wide range of web and non-web services and applications.
› These include cloud infrastructures, High Performance Computing, Grid Computing and commonly deployed services such as email, file store, remote access and instant messaging
– www.ja.net/moonshot
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Trends and signifiers
Reach:› £4M funding from BIS to work
towards a Janet which is "open and accessible" to industry
› Provides industry access to university e-infrastructure facilities to facilitate further investment in science, engineering and technology with the active participation of business and industry
› Modelled on Innovate UK competition process
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www.ja.net/janet-reach
Trends and signifiers
Safe share:› Encrypted VPN infrastructure between
organisations
› Providing enhanced confidentiality and integrity per ISO27001
› Requirement to move electronic health data securely and support research collaboration
› Working with biomedical researchers at Farr Institute, MRC Medical Bioinformatics initiative, ESRC Administrative Data Centres
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Trends and signifiers
Equipment sharing:› Brokered industry access to £60m
public investment in HPC
› Working with EPSRC to pilot theKit-Catalogue software, sharingdetails of 10,000 items of highvalue equipment
› Newcastle University alone issharing £16m+ of >£20K valueequipment
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Photo credit: HPC Midlands
www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/equipment-sharing-made-easy
Trends and signifiers
Conclusions:
› Growing emphasis on what the network enables
› Sharing facilities to reduce the friction of collaboration– And achieve operating efficiencies
› Astronomical volumes of data – LHC, SKA, 100,000 Genomes
› Joining the dots across the R&D landscape – Catapults,industrial connectivity, industry access to e-Infrastructure
› But is the network itself a “done deal” or is there a period of further rapid evolution to come?
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Trends and signifiers
Conclusions:
› Growing emphasis on what the network enables
› Sharing facilities to reduce the friction of collaboration– And achieve operating efficiencies
› Astronomical volumes of data – LHC, SKA, 100,000 Genomes
› Joining the dots across the R&D landscape – Catapults,industrial connectivity, industry access to e-Infrastructure
› But is the network itself a “done deal” or is there a period of further rapid evolution to come?
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Themes
The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures
1. Back to the future
2. Trends and signifiers
3. Prototype to production
4. IT as Innovation in Technology
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Prototype to production
Example: Autonomous Vehicles
› Capability:– Do we have it in house?
– If not: build, buy or broker?
– New model or updated? Retrofit?
› Capacity:– Can we do it at scale?
– How do we respond to changes in demand?
› Sector specific:– Shift from buying cars to renting them
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Prototype to production
Example: 5G communications
› From Samsung, China Mobile and Huawei:– 50Gbit/s peak
– 1Gbit/s generally
– Speeds up to 500km/hr
– Millisecond latency
› Underpinning technology– mmWave based?
– Massive MIMO arrays?
– Software defined networking / radios?
– New generation of backplanes?
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Prototype to production
Example: 5G trends (projected)
› Bandwidth:
– From streaming Despicable Me 5 in 8K
– To smart sensors in street furniture
› Latency:
– From Call of Duty 12 on HS2
– To tracking your next Amazon Drone delivery
› Massification:– From 90,000 FA Cup Vines
– To a telepresence session with two rooms
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Prototype to production
Coming up in today’s session:
› Design considerations for Terabit networking
› Internet of Things – from connected homes to connected institutions?
› Public wifi – eduroam everywhere?
› New paradigms – driven by shared services and cross sector collaborations
› Software Defined Networking and Network FunctionVirtualization – no more baked in silicon?
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Themes
The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures
1. Back to the future
2. Trends and signifiers
3. Prototype to production
4. IT as Innovation in Technology
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IT as Innovation in Technology
IT == Innovation in Technology
› Conventional wisdom: IT as a cost centre– Is that how Tesco and Amazon see it?
› Can you be replaced with a robot?– Or an outsourcerer / shared service / SaaS / …
› What do (or can) you do that gives yourinstitution a unique advantage?– May not be what you are doing now
› Are we actually entering a new golden age?– Discuss!
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