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Mission Statement

“To spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the provision of cyberinfrastructure”

“To spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use of cyberinfrastructure”

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Goal

•  Sustainable operations –  Grant renewals

–  Member support •  “We can run that network ourselves”

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Revenue Generation

Non-revenue

•  Network

•  Routers

•  Cash

•  Staff

•  Contractors

Revenue

•  Memberships

•  Govt.

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Best Practices

•  Orion –  Education backup

•  BCNet –  Peering

•  Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers –  On-demand HPC

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BACKUP Best Practices - Orion

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Backup

•  Partnered with commercial service

•  24/7 support

•  Located in province

•  Scalable

•  Secure

•  Affordable

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PEERING & GROUP BUYING Best Practices - BCNet

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Peering and Buying

•  Network access cost reduction –  Peering

•  Service improvement •  Network efficiency

–  Academic cost reduction

–  Commercial possibilities

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The Internet

U of A

Large ISP

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Google Facebook

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The Internet

Cybera

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering

“Peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network “

Also known as settlement-free peering

What is Peering?

04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 15

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The Internet + Internet Exchanges

Cybera

U of A U of C etc,…

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Google Facebook

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•  Google is the single largest content provider

•  Many Google services, incl Youtube.com

•  1Gb/s private connection between BCNET and Google

•  IPv6 and IPv4

Private peering Google

04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 17

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COMMERCIAL HPC Best Practices - Montana

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Alberta Co.

Commercial Cloud

Cybera Pilot Cloud

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College

Education Utility Cloud

Cybera Pilot Cloud

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Population Density (Population / Sq Km)

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Alberta – Population Distribution

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Almost  four  in  five  people  around  the  world  believe  that  access  to  the  internet  is  a  fundamental  right,  a  poll  for  the  BBC  World  Service  suggests.  

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“…study  ranks  Canada  19th  worldwide  in  overall  Internet  access.”  Harvard  University  Berkman  Center  Feb  2010  

“If  we  do  not  act  with  haste,  the  innova=ons  that  could  employ  our  future  work  force  could  well  pass  us  by”  Globe  and  Mail  editorial      Feb  2010  

“Governments  must  regard  the  internet  as  basic  infrastructure  -­‐  just  like  roads,  waste  and  water”  

-­‐  Dr  Hamadoun  Toure,    Secretary-­‐general  of  the  InternaLonal  TelecommunicaLon  Union  

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Cost to Connect ($/month)

Rural Urban Speed (Mbps) Satellite Wireless Cable

1.0 70 1.5 100 49 3.0 65 5.0 89 10 47 26 70 50 100

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Federal Initiatives

•  Canada’s Economic Action Plan –  $225M

•  Broadband Canada – Connecting Rural Canadians •  $76.9M for first 52 projects

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Federal Initiatives

Company Region Homes

Corridor Communications Inc.

Taber, Pincher Creek, Ranchland and Counties of Cypress, Forty Mile, Warner, Lethbridge and Cardston 5,577

CCI Bighorn and Counties of Clearwater and Yellowhead 2,465

CCI Counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, and Ponoka 1,867 CCI Athabasca Region, Peace River Region 11,335

CCI Wood Buffalo, Bonnyville and counties of Lakeland, St. Paul, and Smoky Lake 1,488

PCC Communications Inc.

Forty Mile, Warner, Cypress, and extended regions of Willow Creek 1,516

PCC Regions of Crowfoot, Vegreville, and Wainwright 8,134 PCC Foothills, Rocky View, and Mountain View 2,475

PCC Jasper, Kananakis, Bighorn and Counties of Clearwater and Yellowhead 436

PCC North Central Region / Stony Plain District 1,817

PCC Peace Region / Peace River & Grande Prairie Districts 1,905 Total 39,015

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Lab

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Community

Olds, Alberta • 7,200 residents • 3,200 Homes & Businesses • College

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“The  Olds  Ins=tute  for  Community  and  Regional  Development  Technology  CommiIee  has  a  vision  to  make  Olds  the  small  and  medium  enterprise  capital  of  Alberta  built  on  superior  cyberinfrastructure.  

 The  OICRD  is  currently  building  a  private  fiber  network  that  will  connect  every  home  and  business  in  the  community.”  

 -­‐  Norman  McInnis,  Chief  AdministraLve  Officer  for  Olds  

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Next Generation Needs

•  Exascale computing

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Next Generation Needs

•  DIYBio

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Homes Homes

Homes Homes

Businesses Businesses

Businesses

Distribution Point

Content Co.

SuperNet

Satellite Farm

Commercial Cloud

Cybera Pilot Cloud

SuperNet

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Projects

•  Water & Environment Hub –  New hire – Alex Joseph

–  Excellent working relationship with WaterSmart

–  Bow River basin first module

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Current Projects

•  Sensor Networks

•  Earth Observation

•  Space Weather

•  Radio Astronomy

•  Westgrid

•  GreenStar Network

•  MoboVivo

•  Water Hub

•  ESRI / CSPG

•  Medical Research

•  Data Gardens

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Cloud Services for Water Management

  Explore use of cloud services to store, manipulate and expose data related to water management

  Link and correlate a wide variety of data from a large number of sources

  Cloud-based analysis and visualization tools