New Broadband Frontiers:New Broadband Frontiers:

How are Research Networks How are Research Networks Contributing? Contributing?

Chris HancockChris HancockCEO, AARNetCEO, AARNet

What is AARNet?

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Connecting Research & Education CommunitiesConnecting Research & Education Communities

Universities

Schools TAFEs

Hospitals

Researchers Instruments

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Connected

Initiative

Planned

Not Connected

A Global CommunityA Global Community

One of 120 Worldwide National Research & Education NetworksOne of 120 Worldwide National Research & Education Networks

A Global Research NetworkA Global Research Network

Research networks are Research networks are the Incubator the Incubator for the Internetfor the Internet

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Conditions that Spur InnovationConditions that Spur Innovation

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““An Innovation Platform must An Innovation Platform must encourage useencourage use, not limit it”, not limit it”

Commercial Approach R&E ApproachR&E Approach

Conditions that Spur InnovationConditions that Spur Innovation

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R&E ApproachCommercial Approach

Give innovators an environment where they’re free to try new, untested, unpopular, ridiculously challenging things

““Innovation requires a Innovation requires a bigbig playground”playground”

Conditions that Spur InnovationConditions that Spur Innovation

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R&E ApproachCommercial Approach

““Small pilots don’t provide adequate scale and real-world conditions Small pilots don’t provide adequate scale and real-world conditions to fully test, incubate and deploy a successful application”to fully test, incubate and deploy a successful application”

Built for CollaborationBuilt for Collaboration

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International Light PathsInternational Light Paths

Built for End-to-End Performance …Built for End-to-End Performance …

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Australian Light PathsAustralian Light Paths

… … With a Major Uplift in International CapacityWith a Major Uplift in International Capacity

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Australian Light PathsAustralian Light Paths

TEIN3TEIN3: A Dedicated Network for Asian Collaborations : A Dedicated Network for Asian Collaborations

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Australian Light PathsAustralian Light Paths

• 12 Beneficiary Partners12 Beneficiary Partners

• 6 Non-beneficiary 6 Non-beneficiary PartnersPartners

• 50M Users50M Users

• 4 Hubs4 Hubs

• 2.5 Gbps Backbone2.5 Gbps Backbone

• 11.4M Euro EC Funding 11.4M Euro EC Funding

(65% co-funding)(65% co-funding)

• Managed by DanteManaged by Dante

Food SecurityFood Security: The International Rice Research Institute: The International Rice Research Institute

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CSIROCSIRO

IRRIIRRI

““Almost HALF the World’s Population Depend on Rice”Almost HALF the World’s Population Depend on Rice”

Driving Capacities

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The Large Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider

““Experiments produce Experiments produce about about 15 Petabytes 15 Petabytes of of raw data every year”raw data every year”

• National Computational Infrastructure - National Facility Australian National Computational Infrastructure - National Facility Australian National University (NCI NF ANU)National University (NCI NF ANU)

• 5.6 Gbps5.6 Gbps from California to Canberra from California to Canberra

• Global repository and core data distribution nodeGlobal repository and core data distribution node

• 2 Petabytes of data 2 Petabytes of data

Climate Change DataClimate Change Data

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The Square Kilometre ArrayThe Square Kilometre Array

“…“…equivalent to equivalent to ten times ten times the global internet traffic today”the global internet traffic today”

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The SKA – The SKA – South AfricaSouth Africa

Mid Freq. Aperture Arrays

Single Pixel Feed (SPFs)

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The SKA - The SKA - AustraliaAustralia

Phased Array Feeds (PAFs)

Low Freq. Aperture Arrays

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The SKA - The SKA - AustraliaAustralia

Phased Array Feeds (PAFs)

Low Freq. Aperture Arrays

Pushing Above the Network LayerPushing Above the Network Layer

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The Three DriversThe Three Drivers

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Collaboration – Video InteroperabilityCollaboration – Video Interoperability

AARNet launches Telepresence ExchangeAARNet launches Telepresence Exchange

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Collaboration – Shared WorkspacesCollaboration – Shared Workspaces

Smart Services CRC TabletopSmart Services CRC Tabletop

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Collaboration – Shared WorkspacesCollaboration – Shared Workspaces

SAGE touch wallSAGE touch wall

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Content Delivery – Shared Data viaContent Delivery – Shared Data via

* Speed testing comparisons conducted from within the AARNet networkNote: Data accurate as of March 28, 2012.

Large, Fast and FreeLarge, Fast and Free

Use Case: Health Sciences

• MRI files to Austria for conversion

• 1 zip’d file (12 study participants) = 1GB

• 300 study participants over 18 months

Marlene Fransen | Associate Professor PhysiotherapyFaculty of Health Sciences | Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Group THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

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Content Delivery – Shared Data viaContent Delivery – Shared Data via

Use Case: Microscopy

•DeltaVision OMX 3D Structured Illumination Microscope (3D-SIM)

• Up to 20GB/day

• Visiting researchers collect processed output via Cloudstor

Lynne Turnbull | Chancellor’s Postdoctorate Research Fellow | The ithree Institute THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY

Images courtesy of A/Prof Cynthia Whitchurch and Dr Lynne Turnbull - Microbial Imaging Facility, UTS

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Content Delivery – Shared Data viaContent Delivery – Shared Data via

Use Case: EpigenomicsUse Case: Epigenomics

•Many 100’s of childhood Leukaemia casesMany 100’s of childhood Leukaemia cases

•Sent nationally and internationally for data Sent nationally and internationally for data analysisanalysis

•Sequencing measures DNA methylation, Sequencing measures DNA methylation, collecting up to 60m data points per case, collecting up to 60m data points per case, creating files ~10GBcreating files ~10GB

Dr Nicholas Wong | Postdoctoral Fellow Murdoch Children’s Research InstituteHeatmap of microarray data depicting the stark difference between

leukaemia and normal bone marrow

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Content Delivery – Shared Data viaContent Delivery – Shared Data via

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BYOD for zero effort, zero cost, global mobility service for Health, Education and Researcher users

Current

In Progress

Mobility – Worldwide AuthenticationMobility – Worldwide Authentication

Expanding Community HorizonsExpanding Community Horizons

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Westmead Hospital

Hilton Hotel, Sydney

Japan

Korea

Medicine – Sharing Our ResearchMedicine – Sharing Our Research

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Culture – Expanding the Performance SpaceCulture – Expanding the Performance Space

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Synaesthesia ProjectSynaesthesia Project

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Schools – The Abbotsleigh StorySchools – The Abbotsleigh Story

““It’s taken them It’s taken them beyond the classroombeyond the classroom…”…”

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Schools – Delivering Immersive ExperiencesSchools – Delivering Immersive Experiences

AARNet’s AARNet’s IImmersive mmersive GGlobal lobal LLearning earning EEnvironment : nvironment : IGLEwIGLEw

AARNet & the NBNAARNet & the NBN

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Demonstrating CapabilitiesDemonstrating Capabilities

• Bringing industry experts Bringing industry experts into the Classroominto the Classroom

• Using AARNet for high bandwidth demonstrationsUsing AARNet for high bandwidth demonstrations

Graphic Design @ Holmesglen TAFEGraphic Design @ Holmesglen TAFE

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Supporting Aged Care InitiativesSupporting Aged Care Initiatives

““Ageing Well @ Home” – Ageing Well @ Home” – Institute for a Broadband Enabled SocietyInstitute for a Broadband Enabled Society

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A Platform for InnovationA Platform for Innovation

“…“…will make investment in the NBN will make investment in the NBN ever more valuable ever more valuable for Australia”for Australia”

Lessons Learnt

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I.I. You need You need “white space” “white space” to see what is possibleto see what is possible

II.II. True True End-to-EndEnd-to-End performance must be achievable performance must be achievable

III.III. Linking Linking multiple devices multiple devices is keyis key

IV.IV. Transferring Transferring large datasets large datasets are becoming more are becoming more commonplacecommonplace

V.V. In the world of education and research, it’s In the world of education and research, it’s “collaboration or death”“collaboration or death”

Lessons LearntLessons Learnt

Thank YouThank You