AICTEC 30 November 2001

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AICTEC30 November 2001

• 21-22 February 2002
• East-West Center University of Hawaii, Honolulu
• Australias Involvement and Plans
• George McLaughlin

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AARNet Australias Academic Research Network

• Has PoPs in each of Australias State and
  Territory Capital Cities (8 in all)
• Provides commodity as well as RE 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

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AARNet Backbone
Darwin
Brisbane
Adelaide
Perth
Canberra
Sydney
Melbourne
Hobart
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AARNet Pty Ltd (APL)

• Not-for-profit company limited by shares
• Shareholders are the universities and CSIRO
• Shareholders are also clients
• RE network expansion funded from a surcharge on
  commodity traffic

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APL Structure
Shareholders - Members
APL Board
AARNet Advisory Committee
Executive Director
Business Unit
Technical Working Parties
Development Unit
Production Unit
Project Implementation Groups
Members Clients
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Australian Advanced Networks Program

• Three programs funded by Aust Govt total grants
  AU37million, leveraged funding AU100million
• GrangeNet 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

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GrangeNet- Open Infrastructure for
Australiaconsortium AARNet APAC DSTC Cisco
Powertel
User Communities
Bio-informatics
Film Media
Education
Health
etc
Grid Services
Advanced Communications Services
GrangeNet Network
Virtual Museums Net
Internet2 Canarie APAN
CeNTIE
QARN
etc
Specialised, Regional and International Networks
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Initial GrangeNet Locations
Boeing HQ
QUT QMI GriffithU
Brisbane Megapop
DSTC QPSF Uni of Queensland
SCCN USA link
UTS DSTC_at_UTS
UniSyd UNSW CSIRO
AC3_at_ATP eBioinformatics CRCSIT
Sydney Megapop
GSR 12410
ANU APAC AARNet
OSR 7600
Canberra Megapop
Uni of Melbourne
IVEC SAPAC TPAC
CSIRO BoM
Melbourne Megapop
VPAC I-cubed RMIT
Monash Uni DSTC_at_MU
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GrangeNet Aims

• Develop 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
  organisations
• Facilitate business development based on
  advanced communications products and services

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International Research and Education Networks

• AARNet has deployed its 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 world
• Is now peering directly peer directly at
  PacificWave with
• Abilene
• CANet3
• TransPac
• TANet
• ESNet
• DREN
• Participates in ITN
• Future Plans

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AARNets International ConnectionsCurrent and
Planned
CANet
APAN
Seattle
StarTap
Japan
Europe
Abilene
GEANT
SLO
Hawaii
Taiwan
South America
Singapore
International Transit Network
PNG
South Asia Middle East Europe
Fiji
AARNet
Global GRID Forum
Sydney
Perth
New Zealand
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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

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Technology deployment

• End-to-end Performance Measurement and Monitoring
• AARNet has had extensive passive
  measurement/monitoring for some time, now
  participating in NLANR AMP
• Multicast
• implemented, multicast peering with Abilene,
  wider distribution within AARNet and GrangeNet
  next facilitated Australias participation in
  SC2001
• IPv6 rollout in next few months
• Voice-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-IP
• Initial H323 deployment successful, scaling to
  national rollout will work with VideNet, I2
  Commons, SurfNet

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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 AARNet
• Acts as nominated carrier on behalf of Members
• Can gain access to ducts and towers of other
  carriers
• Working with power utililities and rail
  authorities to explore opportunities (use of
  fibre and rights of way)
• Intercarrier agreements and wholesale costs

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• Questions?