Western ROADM Project

1
Western ROADM Project

• Marilyn Hay
• Manager, Network Engineering, BCNET
• Brian Fitzgerald
• Network Analyst, Network Services, UVIC
• Damir Pobric
• Senior Network Engineer, CANARIE
• BCNET Annual Conference April 17, 2007

2
BCNET

• BCNET is a non-profit society supporting and
  promoting advanced networks in the province and
  serves BCs universities and research and
  development institutions
• BCNET is supported by the provincial and federal
  governments as well as by its regional university
  members
• The mission statements of the universities drives
  the purposes of BCNET
• Research
• Teaching
• Community Service

3
BCNET - Collaboration

• Collaboration and community involvement has been
  key to the success of BCNET
• Advisory Committees are in place to increase the
  communities of interest
• Network Planning, Applications, and Network
  Research
• Membership from BCNET members, industry, research
  organizations, and technology leaders
• Example Working Groups and projects are Identity
  Management, VOIP, Network Performance
  Measurement, BCNET 2010 and the ROADM Project
• Operations is another key area of collaboration

4
Operational Collaboration

• The Network Engineering group is comprised of the
  peer IT Networking groups of each of the primary
  Members of BCNETBCIT, SFU, TRU, UBC, UVIC, and
  UNBC
• Each Transit Exchange (TX) has the local
  university IT group as its primary support
• The BCNET 2010 Project expanded the Transit
  Exchange locations to add Kamloops and Kelowna to
  the Prince George, Vancouver, and Victoria sites
• A central NOC is utilized for 24x7 support and to
  co-ordinate maintenance, scheduling, and trouble
  ticketing
• Shared trouble ticketing, network monitoring, and
  troubleshooting tools with regular group meetings
  held via video conference

5
Western ROADM Project

• BCNET issued an RFI in December 2005 to
  investigate transitioning to an optical network
  infrastructure.
• Discussions with CANARIE led to the establishment
  of the Western ROADM Project
• To provision an advanced optical infrastructure
  from Calgary to Seattle via Kelowna, Kamloops,
  Vancouver, and Victoria all BCNET TX sites
• An MoU was drafted in June 2006 between the three
  parties CANARIE, Netera, and BCNET
• Collaborating on network design, implementation,
  deployment, operation, and management