Advanced Networks in New Brunswick

1
Advanced Networks in New Brunswick
Greg Sprague
greg.sprague_at_nrc.gc.ca
2
Appreciating Network Speeds

• Throw a Loonie into the back of a truck,
• one Loonie per second.
• How long to accumulate
• 56,000? (56K)
• 1,000,000 (1M)
• 100,000,000 (100M)
• 1,000,000,000 (1G 1Billion)

3
Appreciating Network Speeds

• Throw a Loonie into the back of a truck,
• one Loonie per second
• 56,000 .. 16 hours
• 1,000,000 . 12 days
• 100,000,000 . 3 years and 4 months
• 1,000,000,000 . 33 years

4
Appreciating Network Speeds

• Download a 1 GigaByte file
• (8 Gb)
• 56Kb dial-up .. 40 hours
• 1 Megabit Internet Pipe . 2 hours, 14 minutes
• 100 Megabit LAN . 1 minute and 20 seconds
• 1 Gigabit C4 Connection . 8 seconds

5

• The NB/PEI Educational Computer Network
  (ECN), founded in 1970, connects all the of
  universities in the eastern Canadian provinces of
  New Brunswick (NB) and Prince Edward Island
  (PEI).

6
The Canadian Internet Timeline

• "1970 October New Brunswick Educational Computer
  Network is formed, and later renamed the New
  Brunswick/Prince Edward Island Educational
  Network. It is still operating."
• This quote is the very first entry in printed in
  the "Canadian Internet Handbook", 1995 edition,
  by Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead, published by
  Prentice Hall Canada.

7
NB/PEI ECN

• Université de Moncton
• Moncton, Shippagan, Edmundston, Bathurst
• Mount Allison University
• Sackville
• St. Thomas University
• Fredericton
• Maritime College of Forest Technology
• Fredericton, Bathurst
• MPHEC
• Fredericton
• University Of New Brunswick
• Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, Bathurst
• Holland College
• 11 centres across PEI
• University of Prince Edward Island
• Charlottetown

8
NB/PEI EducationalComputer Network
Holland College
UPEI

Mount A
U de M
NB/PEI ECN
MCFT
UNB
STU
9
NB/PEI EducationalComputer Network
Holland College
UPEI

CAnet
Mount A
U de M
NB/PEI ECN
MCFT
UNB
STU
10
NB/PEI EducationalComputer Network
Holland College
UPEI

CAnet
Mount A
U de M
NB/PEI ECN
Internet
MCFT
UNB
STU
11

12

13
A Dream Evolves

• ECN growth and history
• BitNet, NetNorth, CAnet, CAnet2, CAnet3
• Internet
• CAnet4 worlds first optical network, coast to
  coast
• PEI operates its own network (Eastlink)
• GigaPop at UPEI
• GigE to Halifax
• Need for GigE in NB
• 30Mb not nearly enough
• Rest of the world is GigE
• NRC Opportunity
• CANARIE route diversity opportunity

14
NRC IIT- e-Business

• Fredericton
• Saint John
• 
  Moncton
• Miramichi (NBCC)

15
Eastern route diversity- NB production July 1,
2003- Co-op venture
Charlottetown
Montreal
Fredericton
CAnet 4 Primary Route
Halifax
CAnet 4 Node
CAnet 4 Route Diversity
NRC e-commerce network
Breakout points for ORAN
NB ORAN
NS ORAN
16
NB ORAN

• Optical Regional Advanced Network
• Deliver Economic and Cultural Benefits to Region
• Attract and retain HQP
• Research and Education
• Initially ECN, NRC
• Enable e-Science
• Participate in research and innovation
  regionally, nationally, globally
• Expandable to MUSH Sector, Industry (AUP)

17
NB/PEI Research Grid

• Consortium Partners
• CANARIE
• NRC IIT e-Business
• ECN (UNB, U de M, STU, Mount A plus UPEI)
• ACOA
• MPHEC
• Province of NB
• Province of PEI
• Government of Canada

18
Making theDream Real

• RFP Process 2002
• Connect ECN sites in NB
• Connect NRC sites in NB
• Route Diversity in Maritimes
• GT / 360 Networks wins
• Test Mode July 03
• Official Opening Feb 04
• Sprint and Bell buy GT June 04

19
(No Transcript)
20
NB/PEI Research Grid

• Cost 11M
• Infrastructure and operation provided by Group
  Telecom
• 7 Years (starting July 2003)
• For ECN sites
• Small increment in cost
• Capacity from 30Mb to 3 x1000Mb
• Services
• Fiber Rings GbE
• GigaPop access to CAnet4
• Regional redundancy

21
Feb.16, 2004

22
NB/PEI Research Grid

• The NB/PEI Research Grid is a cooperative effort
  to provide a highly reliable research network
  backbone to Atlantic Canada, and to significantly
  upgrade and expand the capacity for regional
  research and education in New Brunswick and
  Prince Edward Island.
• The initiative is in direct response to the need
  institutions of higher education, research
  facilities and private companies in the region
  have to increase bandwidth so they can
  collaborate, and participate in research and
  innovation projects regionally, nationally and
  globally.
• ECN 3 x 1Gb rings for a little more than the
  price of the existing, overloaded 30Mb network.
• 1,000,000 x faster than the original 1970
  network.

23
CANARIEAUPs RE focus

• The CAnet 4 network is provided to advance the
  deployment of the information society in Canada
  through the support of research, education and
  advanced application development and usage among
  Canadian research, education and industry
  organizations. The network is provided to support
  those activities that would not be practical to
  develop or deploy on the existing Internet
  infrastructure.
• The CAnet 4 Acceptable Use Policy(AUP) is an
  "institutional" AUP. Once an institution is
  approved access to the CAnet 4 network, then ALL
  of its traffic that is destined to other approved
  institutions connected to the network is deemed
  eligible to be carried on the CAnet 4 network.
• All organizations that connect to CAnet 4
  through a CANARIE approved GigaPOP must maintain
  a separate link to the commercial Internet.

24
NB ORAN AUP

• The Atlantic Canada Research Network (ACRN) is
  provided to advance the deployment of the
  information society in New Brunswick and Nova
  Scotia through the support of research, education
  and advanced application development and usage
  among research, education and industry
  organizations. The network is provided to support
  those activities that would not be practical to
  develop or deploy on commercial infrastructure.

25
NB Research Grid
PQ
Industry
Inter Net

NRC
CAnet4
UNB Fredericton GigaPop
ECN
MUSH
PEI
NS
26
NB Research Grid Rings
NRC Saint John
NRC Moncton

CAnet4
NRC Miramichi
UNB Fredericton GigaPop
ECN U de M
ECN Mount A
ECN UNB
27
Connecting toCAnet4 in NB2 Methods

CAnet4

NB Research Grid

UNB Fredericton GigaPop

P of NB
28
Costs of Membership

• Join Gigapop
• 1 Gb 30K one time 24K per year
• 100 Mb 15K one time 15K per year
• 10Mb 5K 7.5K per year
• Plus Connect to Grid
• Possible Grid extension
• Local Loop plus a path on the Grid
• Or Direct Connect to GigaPop
• Contact telecom providers (includes
  e-Novations)

29
Commodity Internet

My LAN
50Mb
Her LAN
Commodity Internet
100Mb
10Mb
A
1Gb
B
C
1Mb
30
Research Networks

Internet2
C4 Network
10Gb
1Gb
40Gb
My LAN
Her LAN
100Mb
A
1Gb
B
31
Preferred RouteTransparent to the User

Internet2
C4 Network
10Gb
1Gb
40Gb
My LAN
50Mb
Her LAN
Commodity Internet
100Mb
10Mb
A
1Gb
B
32
User C Unknown to C4

Internet2
C4 Network
10Gb
1Gb
40Gb
My LAN
50Mb
Her LAN
Commodity Internet
100Mb
10Mb
A
1Gb
B
C
1Mb
33
NB ORAN Contacts
Greg Sprague greg.sprague_at_nrc.gc.ca
Peter Jacobs jacobs_at_unb.ca
34
(No Transcript)