UKERNA Strategic Drivers

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UKERNA Strategic Drivers Implications for RNOs

• Robin Arak
• Chief Executive, UKERNA
• R.Arak_at_ukerna.ac.uk

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Agenda

• Strategic Drivers
• Change to UKERNAs corporate structure
• Issues for RNOs

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Drivers JANET stakeholders

• Higher Education
• Further Education
• Research
• Partners and collaborators
• Funding bodies

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Funding Flow (UK)
Taxes
Customers
Government
Institutions
IS/IT support
Funding Bodies
Network support
JISC
UKERNA JANET
Regional Networks
Customers
Customers
Regional/National
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Strategy Flow
Government objectives
Institutional strategies
IS/IT strategy
HE FE Funding Councils missions and strategies
Network strategy
JISC strategy
Regional Network strategies
UKERNA corporate plan strategy
Research Councils Strategies
Regional strategies
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Drivers JISC Funding

• HEFCE 48 TOTAL HE 59
• LSC 35 TOTAL FE 41
• SHEFC 7
• SFEFC 3
• ELWa HE 3
• ELWa FE 2
• DELNI HE 1
• DELNI FE 1

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Common Themes

• Widening increasing participation
• Lifelong Learning
• More options for learning and modes
• Partnerships and increased collaboration
• High quality education
• Increased use of ICT
• Improving the wealth of the UK

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Drivers DfES Priorities

• Improving primary education
• Transforming secondary education
• Increasing and broadening participation in HE
• Developing the skills of the workforce
  particularly the basic skills of some adults.
• Opening up learning- eLearning,
• UK online centres
• Digital TV

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Drivers funding bodiesHEFCE

• Promote and support productive interaction
  between HE and business and the community
• Encourage institutions to increase access to
  support lifelong learning

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Drivers funding bodiesLSC

• Extend participation in education, learning and
  training (80 16-18 year olds in structured
  learning by 2004)
• By the end of the decade 2010 half of 18-30 year
  olds should be capable of accessing higher
  education

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Drivers funding bodiesSHEFC

• Look for other opportunities for increased
  integration with other public sector networks
• Promote the increase of effective collaborations
  and strategic alliances among higher education
  institutions, with other parts of the education
  sector, and with other users of HE.

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Drivers funding bodiesSFEFC

• Create a sustainable funding platform to deliver
  lifelong learning and wider access
• Improve students learning experience, by
  developing an integrated quality improvement
  framework, supporting learning innovation, and
  investing in information technology

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Drivers funding bodiesELWa

• Promote collaboration between the further and
  higher education sectors
• Reduce number of working age adults who dont
  have qualifications from 1 in 4 to 1 in 8 by 2004

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Drivers funding bodiesDELNI

• Develop a piloted approach to enhanced linkages
  between the further education sector and SMEs.
• Introduce an FE/HE MAN (develop e-learning)

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Drivers funding bodiesResearch Councils

• Advancement dissemination of knowledge
• Promotion and support of high quality basic,
  strategic and applied research
• Promoting the transfer of knowledge from
  scientific research into practice to benefit the
  UK
• World class collaborative research
• E-Science

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JISC Strategy

• High quality network
• Managed IP bandwidth
• Flexible automatically bookable network resources
  between 384Kbs and 20Mbps for teaching
• Interoperability (GEANT, Internet 2)
• High bandwidth for research (GRID)
• Last mile technologies for student learner and
  researcher access

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JISC Strategy

• SuperJANET 5 (100s of Gbps)
• Upgrades to MANS
• (In place by 2005)
• 750 primary connected sites _at_ 200Mbps 150Gbps
• 750 primary connected sites _at_ 1Gbps 750Gbps

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JISC Strategy content delivery

• Network Management
• Traffic management
• Caching
• Mirroring
• Security Authentication
• Access to content
• Access to network resources

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UKERNA Strategy Drivers

• Increased collaboration
• For learning and teaching
• For research
• Lifelong Learning support
• Widening participation
• Support for research- E-Science

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Collaboration

• Between HE, FE, research communities and other
  organisations
• requires
• Peering arrangements
• Connections to other networks
• - connection policies
• - acceptable use policies
• Support for network applications for
  collaboration e.g. multi-cast video

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Lifelong Learning

• Providing services off Net
• Home
• Workplace
• Peering arrangements
• Last mile outreach services (e.g. ADSL)
• Support implications
• Working with partners

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Widening Participation

• Delivery of broadband JANET services to
  learners at home and at work
• Links to other networks used by learners e.g.
  NHSNet, schools, SMEs
• Outreach centre connections e.g. adult education
  and community centres
• Links to entertainment networks e.g. Cable TV.
• Authentication and security issues

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E-Science - definition

• Science increasingly done through distributed
  global collaborations enabled by the Internet,
  using
• very large data collections,
• tera-scale computing resources,
• and high performance visualisation.

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E-Science support

• IP Multicast- Access GRID
• Support for QoS
• Videoconferencing
• Remote visualisation and control
• Shipment of large volumes of data
• (requires timely delivery without affecting
  other production services)
• Distributed processing via the network
  (databases)

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E-Science implications

• Interoperation with other NRENS
• Interoperation with regional networks
• Move towards automatically setting up network
  resources to support authorised applications
• Authentication
• DEN
• Middleware

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Common Requirements

• Reliability
• Resilience, redundancy, topology
• Easy to manage, use and support!
• Interoperability
• Guaranteed Application Delivery
• Ability to deliver new applications as they are
  required
• Scalability (more bandwidth)

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Conclusion

• UKERNA is indirectly driven by government
  policies
• As policies have changed UKERNA has provided
  network services to support government policy and
  strategy implementation

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Summary

• To ensure that services are aligned to
  stakeholder needs stakeholders need to be
  represented
• Membership
• Board

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Why a review?

• UKERNAs adoption of a wider remit to deliver
  services to education and research
• FE, Lifelong learning communities, schools?
• JISC review conducted by Sir Brian Follett
• UKERNA to remain the network service provider
• Review UKERNAs role, governance, management

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The review

• Funding Councils commissioned the UKERNA Review
• Chaired by Fred McCrindle
• Review panels met over Summer 2001
• Report issued January 2002

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Corporate Restructuring

• Articles of association of UKERNA were altered to
  create classes of membership.
• Built in flexibility for the future to allow new
  stakeholders to be represented
• Membership of the Board restructured in order to
  reflect all current stakeholder communities.

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Classes of Membership

• HE and Research institutions
• FE institutions
• Individuals interested in networking issues
• Nominate an elect 3 board members for period of
  3 years (RNOs?)

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Classes of Membership

• 4. Education, learning research institutions
  not eligible as HE, Research or FE institutions
• 5. Public Body Members (UK HE, FE funding
  councils and OST)
• Representative organisations representing
  education, learning research in the UK
• Nominate board members, change MA, vote on AGM
  and General meeting business

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New Board

• Chair (non executive)
• Executive directors
• UKERNA Chief Executive
• UKERNA Finance Director

• Appointed by members in classes 4 6
• Appointed by the Board

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New Board (cont)

• Non executive directors
• Nominated by members in classes 4 6
• Elected by the members in classes 1 -3

• HEFCE
• LSC
• SFC
• ELWa
• OST and research councils
• DEL(NI)
• Three community members

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Issues affecting JANET and the Regional Networks
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Some Issues affecting JANET

• Supplier Stability Performance
• JANET was designed to a price
• Bandwidth vs Resilience
• Regional Networks
• Resilience to regional networks?
• Resilience to end institutions?

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Network Reliability

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Top 10 availability issues

• Broken lines/line faults 24 (T)
• Circuit faults 21 (T)
• Telco equipment faults 12 (T)
• Power failures 8 (U)
• Telco Exchange problems 6 (T)
• Router problems 6 (U)
• Security maintenance 5 (U)
• Switching equipment 4 (U)
• Virus problems 3 (U)
• Data service unit problems 3 (U)
• (Issues causing monthly site availability to drop
  lt99)

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RNO issues

• Long term regional network funding
• Merger of capital recurrent funding
• More flexibility and stability in funding
• Alignment of funding with procurement cycles
• Funding tied to agreed plans/outcomes
• Remove funding micro-management

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RNO Management

• Corporate governance of MANs
• Board structure
• Management structure
• Risk Management
• Legal obligations
• Company law, Tax, VAT, PAYE, regulation, etc.

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RNO Management

• Operational Management
• Technical Management
• Financial Management (Billing, Invoicing)
• Auditing
• Monitoring the SLA

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Regional Networks

• Aligning regional network agendas with national
  and regional agendas?
• Regional Network Corporate Strategies
• What does an individual regional network wish to
  deliver if UKERNAs remit widens?
• What regional strategies does a regional network
  wish to support?

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Challenges for RNOs

• Managing complexity
• Multiple interoperating domains
• Relationships with UKERNA, RSCs, etc.
• Relationship with customers
• Account management
• Supplier management telcos
• Business Continuity Plans
• Move to 24 X 7 support
• User expectation

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Challenges for RNOs?

• Value added services?
• Caching?, Web hosting?
• E-mail, Managed router service?
• Offsite backup?
• Video services?
• eLearning services?
• Other application services, MIS?
• Campus network monitoring and support?
• Security services?
• Helpdesk? Consultancy?

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Challenges for RNOs

• How can RNOs help support the strategies of
• Institutions?
• Funding councils?
• Research councils?
• Regional organisations?
• Collaboration with other organisations

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Who can connect to regional networks? (1)

• HE, FE publicly funded research ?
• Non commercial organisations involved with
  lifelong learning funded by HE FE ?
• Broader educational organisations including
  private colleges?
• Local education authorities ? ?
• State schools ?
• Private schools ?

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Who can connect to regional networks? (2)

• Commercial organisations engaged in lifelong
  learning when JANET is only used for learning ?
• Local councils for lifelong learning?
• Local councils for for other public sector
  activities for the benefit of the community?
• Public libraries ?

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Who can connect to regional networks? (3)

• Organisations conducting collaborative research
  and/or learning with HE FE providing JANET is
  used just for this ?
• Research partners but using JANET for other
  activities as well?
• Science parks where there is collaborative
  research and JANET is used for this ?
• Science parks (some companies trading with no
  research interests)?
• NHS requiring delivery of lifelong learning?

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Who can connect to regional networks? (4)

• SMEs and other companies who use JANET only for
  collaborative research or to support learning
  programmes ?
• SMEs and other companies who also want to use
  JANET for commercial purposes as well as for
  collaborative research or learning?
• Organisations with no link to HE FE where
  connections are made for commercial profit to
  offset costs and future investment by the RNO?

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Who can connect to regional networks? (What next?)

• Paper to the JCN
• Consultation with funding councils
• Change to connection policy?
• RNOs to offer sponsored connections
• Cost recovery models
• Tariffs for connection
• Tariffs for internet transit bandwidth

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• DISCUSSION
• FEEDBACK

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Due Summer 2002
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