The Advanced Network for Research and Education

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The Advanced Networkfor Research and Education
Coming this year!
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Timetable

• 2002
• 30 September Final Report
• 18 October Consortium established
• 18 December Project Director appointed
• 2003
• 28 February Business Case to Government
• 30 April Government approval received
• 16 May Contracts let
• 30 September First Installation Milestone

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Todays topics

• What is it?
• Plan for Otagos connections
• Timetable
• Use of the network
• What it is not
• Government initiatives
• Urban Fibre Networks

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Advanced Network Project Objectives

• 1. To enable leading edge eResearch

2. To facilitate universal connectivity
throughout the New Zealand and international
research and education community
3. To encourage broad participation by the
research and education sector in New Zealand
through accessible technology and reasonable
pricing
4. To connect the research and education sector
to the broader innovation community for
pre-commercial, research and developmentbased
collaboration.
5. To facilitate participation by multiple
telecommunications sector partners, so as to
ensure the greatest possible flexibility for
on-going evolution
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How is this structured?

• REANNZ a Crown-owned company
• (Research and Education Advanced Network New
  Zealand Ltd)

• Directors
• Dr James Watson (Chair), founder and current
  board member of Genesis Research Development
  Corporation and current President of the Royal
  Society of New Zealand.
• Professor Warwick Clegg, Pro Vice-Chancellor for
  Information Technology, at Victoria University.
• Jane Taylor, a barrister from Queenstown.
• Dr Rick Pridmore, Chief Executive of the National
  Institute of Water Atmospheric Research
• Carol Moffat, previously manager of the ICT
  Strategy for Schools, director of Multiserve
  Education Trust and Core Education Trust.
• Establishment funding NZ43M over 4 years from
  GIF and TEC
• Separate Capability Building Program (CBP)
• Members, associates and partners will pay an
  annual subscription aimed to cover operational
  costs and provision for organic network growth
• Crown exit to members anticipated during
  establishment period

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National Network
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International Network
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Global RE links
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Positioning Australia for Global Collaboration
AARNet and TEIN2 combined reach
TEIN2eVLBIEXPReSMauna KeaVirtual Critical
Care Emerging InfectionsGlobal Digital
DivideLarge Hadron Collider Square Kilometre
ArrayTransLight Pacific WaveSouthern Ocean
Sciences Immersive Multimedia for Collaboration
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AARNets International footprint

• One of the most extensive individual RE network
  footprints in the world
• Now has its own links into Asia and going west to
  Europe as well as the US
• A key partner in the Trans-Eurasian Information
  Network that provides connectivity to other parts
  of Asia and alternative routes going west to
  Europe
• A global footprint on AARNets own infrastructure
  from the west coast US via Hawaii and Fiji to
  Sydney, then trans-Australia to Singapore and
  west to Europe

2 AARNet International Gateways Sydney Perth
8 AARNet Global PoPsSeattle Palo AltoLos
Angeles Hawaii (Oahu)Hawaii (Big Island)
SuvaSingapore Frankfurt
13 International Circuits2 x 10Gbps5 x
622Mbps6 x 155Mbps
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University of Otago campus connections
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Timetable for connections

• The first connections will be made mid-year, with
  Auckland, Rotorua and Christchurch coming live in
  a pilot initiative.
• It is expected that the whole backbone will be
  operational before the end of the year.
• Actual campus connections will vary according to
  local arrangements.
• Dunedin will be connected as the backbone is
  completed.
• Wellington and Auckland campus connections should
  be straightforward as they will be using existing
  fibre routes.
• Christchurch may take longer as a new fibre build
  is likely.

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Who can use this network?

• Initially aimed primarily at universities, Crown
  Research Institutes and the National Library as
  members and eventual owners.
• Network Access Policy (NAP) defines who may use
  the network and for what purpose it does not
  define applications that may utilise the network.
  NAP is consistent with those of overseas NRENs.
• Also allows others (Associates and Partners) to
  use the network for RE activity and the support
  of RE activity.

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Otagos use of the network

• All electronic communication between campuses
• All research and education traffic with other
  members of the network, and members of RE
  networks overseas
• Communication with commercial research partners
• Communicaton with applicaton services providers
  e.g. LCoNZ library systems

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An early application the New Zealand Access
Grid
Building Research Capability in Social Sciences
(BRCSS) have established AG nodes at most
universities. Otago have independently
established a node in the ISB on the Dunedin
campus. Will become a major communications and
research tool.
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PerformanceGrid
One Stage
The Performers
Control
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BeSTGRID(or Broadband enabled Science and
Technology Grid)
BeSTGRID builds true digital science capability
within New Zealand. This project will be led by
15 scientists from varied disciplines within New
Zealand to help researchers and students
collaborate on shared scientific databases and
computing resources. BeSTGRID will deliver
mechanisms, methods and tools that facilitate
collaboration on shared information, sharing of
computational resources and online visualisation
of instruments and experiments. Access Grid,
Storage Grid, Computational Grid

• Led by Paul Bonnington at University of Auckland
• Massey and Canterbury universities also involved

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What the advanced network is not

• NOT a replacement for commodity Internet access
• Not the answer to your Internet bills at least
  not generally
• Initial international connections are not very
  high capacity
• No capability for end-to-end light paths for
  research groups (Hybrid networks)

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The Broadband Situation

communications costs are going down BUT they
are going down much faster in other countries
and we have the service we need BUT we dont
know what we are missing out on New Zealand
remains 22nd out of the 30 OECD countries for
broadband uptake

The situation we are in with telecommunications
in New Zealand is less about the cost of services
and more about the opportunities missed because
high costs stifle innovation.
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Government announcement last night

• Finally unbundling the local loop but how fast
  will Telecom NZ move? dont expect much in
  first 12 months
• Naked DSL mandated
• Telecom NZ accounting separation but not
  structural separation yet
• Rural package
• Broadband Challenge Fund expanded (next slides)

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What Government is doing

• The Digital Strategy

• Targets
• To implement the Advanced Network by 2006
• To promote and support open access fibre networks
  in 15 cities and towns by 2009
• To achieve upper-quartile OECD broadband
  performance by 2010 through policies promoting
  competition and economic development
• To create the conditions for all major public
  institutions (hospitals, libraries, and councils)
  to have access to a fast (1 Gbps) connection by
  2010

Regions and communities are encouraged to provide
for their own communications infrastructure
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Urban Fibre Networks

• Open access fibre networks for cities
• Community initiatives
• Using low cost techniques to provide affordable
  very high speed networks
• Providing the last mile for the Advanced Network

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• A single copper pair is capableof carrying 6
  phone calls
• A single fibre pair is capable ofcarrying over
  20 millionsimultaneous phone calls(128 channels
  at 10 Gb/s)
• Put another way a single fibre pair can carry
  30,000 times more traffic than a 100 pair copper
  cable.
• A typical fibre cable would have 72 pairs of fibre

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Low cost transceivers
Gbic transceiver module, bi-directional
communication, up to 80Km
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Optical Multipexing
CWDM 18 channels
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Was has been done

• University working with Economic Development Unit
  of the DCC
• Feasibility study undertaken to explore the
  opportunities for establishing a CBD fibre ring,
  and looking at extentions to other areas of the
  city
• The Digital Cities conference December 2005
• RFP for development of Expression of Interest
  in the Broadband Challenge
• Consultation with Council

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Current and planned activites

• Build a consortium of intersted parties
• Prepare Expression of Interest in time for
  appication to the Broadband Challenge by July
  2006
• If successful develop a business case for
  consideration in the Broadband Challenge and by
  the City Council

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Discussion and Questions