canarie “community broadband networks” the customer empowered networking revolution” ...
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“A proposed strategy to make Canada the most networked country in the world and the
first to have low cost Gigabit Internet infrastructure available to virtually all
schools, hospitals, libraries and businesses by 2005”
GigaPOP
CA*net 3 National Optical Internet
Vancouver
Calgary ReginaWinnipeg
Ottawa
Montreal
Toronto
Halifax
St. John’s
FrederictonCharlottetown
ORAN
BCnet
Netera SRnet MRnet
ONet RISQ
ACORN
ChicagoSTAR TAP
CA*net 3 Primary Route
Seattle
New York
CA*net 3 Diverse Route
Deploying a 4 channel CWDM Gigabit Ethernet
network – 400 km
Deploying a 4 channel Gigabit
Ethernet transparent optical DWDM–
1500 km
Multiple Customer Owned Dark Fiber
Networks connecting
universities and schools
16 channel DWDM-8 wavelengths @OC-192 reserved for CANARIE-8 wavelengths for carrier and other customers
Consortium Partners:Bell Nexxia
NortelCisco
JDS UniphaseNewbridge
Condo Dark Fiber Networks
connecting universities and
schools
Condo Fiber Network linking all
universities and hospital
Customer Empowered Networks School boards and municipalities throughout North America are deploying
their own dark fiber networks in partnership with next generation carrier Individual institutions – the customers – own and control their own strands
of fiber Fiber are configured in point to point private networks; or Connect to local ISP or carrier hotel
Low cost LAN architectures and optics are used to light the fiber Control and management of the optics and wavelengths is under the domain of the
LAN customer at the edge, as opposed to the traditional carrier in the center These new concepts in customer empowered networking are starting in the same
place as the Internet started – the university and research community.
Customers will start with dark fiber but will eventually extend further outwards with customer control and ownership of wavelengths
Extending the Internet model of autonomous peering networks to the telecom world
What is happening elsewhere? California DCP project plans to connect up all schools to research and
education backbone – CALren-2 Cost $US 32 million per year next 3 years
Holland plans to connect up 12,000 schools with dark fiber Schools will be connected to national research and education backbone –
SURFnet 5 Alberta has a major RFP to connect up 3800 public institutions in the
province Sweden plans $US 2-3 billion for connecting municipalities and rural areas Iceland is building fiber network to all their schools which private sector will
take to the home Finland and Norway have similar plans
Market Drivers First - low cost
Up to 1000% reduction over current telecom prices. 6-12 month payback Second - LAN invades the WAN – no complex SONET or ATM required in
network Network Restoral & Protection can be done by customer using a variety of
techniques such as wireless backup, or relocating servers to a multi-homed site, etc
Third - Enables new applications and services not possible with traditional telecom service providers Relocation of servers and extending LAN to central site Out sourcing LAN and web servers to a 3rd party because no performance impact IP telephony in the wide area (Spokane) HDTV video
Fourth – Allows access to new competitive low cost telecom and IT companies at carrier neutral meet me points Much easier to out source servers, e-commerce etc to a 3rd party at a carrier
neutral collocation facility
Schoolboard Condominium Builds
School Board
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PROJECT
Capitale x 140 km of fibre optics 80 schoolsRégion-de-Sherbrooke x 180 km of fibre optics 66 schoolsRivière-du-Nord x 175 km of fibre optics 52 schoolsSeigneurie-des-Mille-Iles x x x 200 km of fibre optics 80 schools 4 partnersAmiante x x x 12 km of fibre optics 9 schoolsLaval x x x 170 km of fibre optics 111 schools 3 partnersSaint-Hyacinthe x 250 km of fibre optics 51 schoolsAffluents x x x 170 km of fibre optics 70 schools 4 partnersBois-Francs x x x 60 km of fibre optics 12 schools 4 partnersDraveurs x x 90 km of fibre optics 40 schoolsGrandes-Seigneuries x 210 km of fibre optics 58 schoolsHautes-Rivières x 250 km of fibre optics 54 schoolsLaurentides x 200 km of fibre optics 35 schoolsPatriotes x 2 km of fibre optics 3 schoolsPremières-Seigneurie x 190 km of fibre optics 73 schoolsSamares x 460 km of fibre optics 72 schoolsTrois-Lacs x x 45 km of fibre optics 15 schoolsChemin-du-Roy x 29 km of fibre optics 11 sitesMarie-Victorin x 6 km of fibre optics 5 schoolsSir-Wilfrid-Laurier x x x 92 km of fibre optics 20 schools
List of Schoolboard Fiber Builds
Examples of Dark Fiber costs University network Urban Fiber Builds
Varennes: 50 km - $406K (maintenance $26K/year) Montreal East: 14 km - $120K (maintenance $9K/year) Laval: 33km - $213K (maintenance $15K/year)
University network Rural Fiber Builds Sorel: 54km - $266K (maintenance $19K/year) Megantic: 40km -$273K (maintenance $14K/year)
Schoolboards Victoriaville school board -Average price for fiber(s) $2 - $7 per meter Spokane School District - $US 800/mo for first 5 years then $US 400/mo Over 50 schools Stockholm - $1200/mo – over 100 schools
Las Vegas School district – 240 schools – Telcordia (Bellcore) prime contractor Many, many others in the works Companies like Telcordia (Bellcore), IBM, etc are now leading development of
dark fiber networks for schools
Condo Fiber Build Examples Des affluents: Total cost $1,500,00 ($750,00 for schools)
70 schools 12 municipal buildings 204 km fiber $1,500,000 total cost average cost per building - $18,000 per building
Mille-Isles: Total cost $2,100,000 ($1,500,000 for schools) 80 schools 18 municipal buildings 223km $21,428 per building
Laval: Total cost $1,800,000 ($1,000,000 for schools) 111 schools 45 municipal buildings 165 km $11,500 per building
Peel county: Total cost $5m – 100 buildings Cost per building $50,000
Peel County Municipal Fiber Network
Mississauga, Brampton, Pell 200 km of Fibre 96 strand backbone
“Enough for small country”
12-60 strands elsewhere 12,000 strand-kilometers
Laid end-to-end = Victoria to St. John’s …...and back again
Typical Payback for school(Real example – des affluents – north of Montreal)
Over 3 years total expenditure of $1,440,000 for DSL service Total cost of dark fiber network for 100 schools $1,350,000 Additional condominium participants were brought in to
lower cost to school board to $750,000 School board can now centralize routers and network servers
at each school Estimated savings in travel and software upgrades
$800,000 Payback typically 8 –16 months Independent Study by Group Secor available upon request
Before
After fiber
fiberAntennas 780Novell Servers 82 1SQL Servers 13 3Lotus Notes Servers 21Tape Backup Servers 12 4Ethernet switches/hubs 10 98Routers 1083Cache/proxy (Linux) 120Fire walls (Linux) 11
Reduction in the number of servers
A possible framework for the last mile
The R&E community leadership in customer empowered networks is pointing to a possible solution for the last mile to the home
An architecture concept also based on open access customer owned dark fiber using well known LAN architectures
Many competitive service providers share in the cost of condominium fiber
Ensures facilities based competition
Telcos are unlikely to build FTTH in existing neighborhoods because of the huge capital investment and ROI needed on that investment
Solutions for high speed Internet to the home may not come from the carriers but from the R&E community
The basic assumptions The good, the bad and the ugly..
Monopolies are bad Duopolies are ugly Facilities based competition is good
The private sector, in an open competitive market, is far more effective at responding to consumer’s needs and introducing new services at lower prices than any kind of government regulation
But government has a responsibility to foster competition and ensure a level playing field
Where a natural monopoly exists government has a responsibility to regulate that monopoly, but only as a last resort
First it should make every attempt to develop mechanisms for introducing private sector competition rather than depending on legislative fiat
Regulation should be seen as a last resort
Networked NationCA*net 4
Provincial research and education network
Usually one GigaPOP per province
Usually one access facility in every major town and city
School board office City Hall University
School HospitalLibrarySchool School
Colo Colo
Option B: Home owners are aggregated at node by service provider of their
choice
Option A: Home owners and businesses have fused
connections all the way to service provider at supernode
SuperNodes
Nodes
Colo
Colo
Splice Box
Homes
Splice Box
CommercialInternet
CommercialInternet
Possible architecture for large town
School
School board office
School
Telco Central Office
Central OfficeFor Wireless
Company
VDSL, HFC or FiberProvisioned by service provider
Condominium Fiber with separate strands owned by school and by service providers
Carrier Owned Fiber
Cable head end
Average Fiber Penetration to 250-500
homes
ColoFacility
Possible architecture for small town
School
Town Hall
School
Condominium Fiber with separate strands owned by school/town hall and by service providers
Receiver for Skycache
Average Fiber Penetration to 250-500
homes
ColoFacility
Receiver for Satellite
StreamingCache boxes and serversOperated by satellite company
Benefits to Industry For cablecos and telcos it help them accelerate the deployment of high speed
internet services into the community Currently deployment of DSL and cable modem deployment is hampered
by high cost of deploying fiber into the neighbourhoods Cable companies need fiber to every 250 homes for cable modem service,
but currently only have fiber on average to every 5000 homes Telephone companies need to get fiber to every 250 homes to support
VDSL or FSAN technologies Wireless companies need to get fiber to every 250 homes for new high
bandwidth wireless services and mobile Internet It will provide opportunities for small innovative service providers to offer
service to public institutions as well as homes For e-commerce and web hosting companies it will generate new business in out
sourcing and web hosting For Canadian optical manufacturing companies it will provide new opportunities
for sales of optical technology and components
Carriers are not the only decision maker in the last mile
Governments and consumers are becoming more active voice in determining the future of broadband to home
Do not assume that carrier best technical solution is the only approach Open access is becoming a critical political issue
Consumers want more than duopoly of cable and telco Facilities based competition the best
Municipalities object to their streets being torn up Dig once – bury lots of fiber
Residents object to street furniture and antennae
Governments promote the framework for GITH networks by funding schools, universities, libraries, hospitals and municipal buildings as first customers and early adopters of dark fiber and optical networks
Private sector leverages that investment by government to promote high speed Internet access to schools and universities to extend the fiber to the home
Electric utility companies, municipal governments, CLECs, SMEs, entrepreneurs, as well as traditional telcos and cablecos can participate as providers, provided they subscribe to the architecture of open access, facilities based competition through dark fiber (or wavelengths)
Emphasize the development and use of technology that specifically addresses the new architecture and the last mile, which must therefore be open, cheap and Internet-only
An important Role for Government
CANARIE's 6th Advanced Networks Workshop"The Networked Nation"
November 28 and 29, 2000Palais des Congrès
Montreal, Quebec - Canada
"The Networked Nation", will focus on application architectures ("grids") made up of customer owned dark fiber and next generation Internet networks like CA*net 3 that will ultimately lead to the development of the networked nation where eventually every school, home and business will have high bandwidth connection to the Internet.
Three tracks: Customer owned dark fiber for schools, hospitals, businesses and homes. Next generation optical Internet architectures that will be a natural and seamless
extension of the customer owned dark fiber networks being built for schools, homes and businesses.
"application grids", which are a seamless integration of dark fiber and optical networks to support specific collaborative research and education applications.