AICTEC30 November 2001

21-22 February 2002

East-West Center University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Australia’s Involvement and PlansGeorge McLaughlin

AARNet – Australia’s Academic & Research Network

Has PoPs in each of Australia’s State and Territory Capital Cities (8 in all)

Provides commodity as well as R&E connections to member universities and research bodies

Does not receive Australian Govt Funding for its operations – ie is fully user-pays

Is required to fully comply with the Australian telecommunications regulatory regime – holds a carrier licence

Canberra

Darwin

Adelaide

Perth

Brisbane

Sydney

Hobart

AARNet Backbone

Melbourne

AARNet Pty Ltd (APL)

Not-for-profit company limited by shares

Shareholders are the universities and CSIRO

Shareholders are also clients

R&E network expansion funded from a surcharge on commodity traffic

APL Structure

APL Board

Executive Director

Business Unit

Development Unit

Production Unit

AARNet Advisory

Committee

Technical Working Parties

Project Implementation Groups

Shareholders - Members

Members & Clients

Australian Advanced Networks Program

Three programs funded by Aust Govt– total grants $AU37million, leveraged funding ~$AU100millionGrangeNet – consortium with AARNet as lead agency also APAC, DSTC, Powertel and Cisco

2x2.5Gbps wavelengths between Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne based on Cisco DWDM, 12410 and 7600 series routers, GbE tails, advanced communication and grid services, associated middleware to support a variety of communities of users

CeNTIE network research backbone Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth (10Gbps lambda), local fibre in Sydney and Perth

MNet – Focus on advanced wireless technologies

GrangeNet- Open Infrastructure for Australiaconsortium – AARNet APAC DSTC Cisco Powertel

Grid Services

Advanced Communications Services

Specialised, Regional and International Networks

User Communities

GrangeNet Network

HealthBio-

informaticsFilm & Media etc

Virtual Museums

NetCeNTIE QARN

etc

Education

Internet2CanarieAPAN

Initial GrangeNet Locations

BrisbaneMegapop

SydneyMegapop

CanberraMegapop

MelbourneMegapop

DSTCQPSF

Uni of Queensland

Boeing HQ

UTSDSTC@UTS

ANUAPAC

AARNet

Uni of Melbourne

VPACI-cubed

RMIT

AC3@ATPeBioinformatics

CRCSIT

CSIROBoM

SCCNUSA link

Dual 155M STM-1 links

Multiple 2.5Gbps wavelengths

1 GbE links

Monash UniDSTC@MU

QUTQMI

GriffithU

UniSydUNSWCSIRO

IVECSAPACTPAC

OSR 7600

GSR 12410

GrangeNet AimsDevelop next generation of communications networks and services (‘AARNet3-4’)Provide infrastructure to integrate high-performance computing and visualisation systems (‘APAC Grid’)Support distributed ‘User Communities’ with demanding applications Promote cooperation between industry and research organisationsFacilitate business development based on advanced communications products and services

International Research and Education Networks

AARNet has deployed it’s own capacity to the advanced networks of North America, and later to the Asia Pacific – from these also to Europe and the rest of the worldIs now peering directly peer directly at PacificWave with:

AbileneCA*Net3TransPacTANetESNetDREN

Participates in ITNFuture Plans

AARNet’s International ConnectionsCurrent and Planned

Singapore

South Asia

Middle East

Europe

Europe

APAN

Abilene

CANet

GEANT

StarTap

Fiji

GlobalGRID

Forum

SouthAmerica

AARNet

International Transit

Network

Japan

New Zealand

Taiwan

HawaiiSLO

Seattle

PNG

SydneyPerth

International Science Collaborations

Global Grid and AP Grid Forums

Health applications

Astronomy

Peer-to-Peer computing

Access Grids

Location independence and need to access resources and collaborate with others elsewhere in the world

Technology deploymentEnd-to-end Performance Measurement and Monitoring

AARNet has had extensive passive measurement/monitoring for some time, now participating in NLANR AMP

Multicastimplemented, multicast peering with Abilene, wider distribution within AARNet and GrangeNet next – facilitated Australia’s participation in SC2001

IPv6 – rollout in next few monthsVoice-over-IP

National deployment already in place, switching 16,000 calls per day – wide distribution of H323 gatekeepers within Australia, QoS deployed, toll quality – also working on SIP

Video-over-IPInitial H323 deployment successful, scaling to national rollout – will work with VideNet, I2 Commons, SurfNet

New Carrier Services AARNet now has a carrier licence and this has the

potential to provide other opportunities resulting from nominated carrier declarations and inter carrier agreements

Has commissioned a fibre-layer to lay new ducts and fibre, owned by AARNetActs as nominated carrier on behalf of MembersCan gain access to ducts and towers of other carriersWorking with power utililities and rail authorities to explore opportunities (use of fibre and rights of way)Intercarrier agreements and wholesale costs

Questions?