HEAnet National Networking Conference 2009

Fáilte go Cill Chainnigh Arís !

12th November 2009

John Boland,Chief Executive

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Opening Address Tom Boland

Chief Executive of the HEAChairman of the Board of HEAnet

Strategic Highlights in 2009 and beyond …

Services Evaluation Group (SEG)

Terms of Reference

1. To evaluate the introduction of potential new services or expansion of services as proposed by Clients

2. To evaluate the introduction of potential new services or expansion of services as proposed by HEAnet / NREN collaboration

3. To evaluate the relevancy of existing services within the HEAnet services portfolio with regard to uptake and other appropriate metrics

4. Establish & Track Annual Service Development Plan

5. SEG Membership drawn from HEAnet and Client representatives

SEG Delivery Highlights 2009• Service Resiliency (path, PoP, power, equipment)

• Edugate Federated Access

• HEAnet/O2 Mobile Broadband Scheme

• WiMax Trial at DCU

• 4,000 School Broadband Programme Refresh

• Schools 100Mbit/s Programme

• Server Certificates (SSL)

• HD Video Conference Roll-Out (2 phases)

• Multimedia Content Service (Federated)

• Collaborative Software – Community License Agreement

Services Evaluation Group (SEG)

SEG: Services Currently Under Evaluation• National Data Centre

• Education TV

• Spam Filtering Service

• Commodity IP

• Commodity Storage

• Network Management Client Dashboard

Services Evaluation Group (SEG)

Conference Workshops

Federation

How can we make Federation easy?

Federated access is hard (at first)

HEAnet can deploy and integrate Shibboleth and simpleSAMLphp on your campus

HEAnet’s Edugate Resource Registry is your configuration web-service for Shibboleth and simpleSAMLphp

HEAnet can manage your institutions user consent and attribute release policy

Federation (x5)

• Workshop No. 1: Federating your Users’ IdentitiesWednesday 14.00 – 15.00

• Workshop No. 2: Federating with MicrosoftThursday 11.00 – 12.00

• Workshop No. 3: Federating with MaharaThursday 12.00 – 12.30

• Workshop No. 4: Federating with Google AppsThursday 13.45 – 14.45

• Workshop No. 5: Data Protection in a Federated WorldFriday 11.15 – 12.30

Security (x2)

• Workshop No. 1: Hack the NetworkWednesday 14.00 – 15.30

• Workshop No. 3: Hack the NetworkThursday 13.45 – 14.45

• Workshop No. 2: Combating Email AbuseThursday 11.00 – 12.30

• Workshop No. 4: Combating Email AbuseFriday 11.15 – 12.30

Schools Broadband Network

• 99.999% HEAnet backbone availability since inception in 2005

(Source: Norcontel Schools Broadband Programme Evaluation Report 2009)

• Single day high of 3,745 (out of 4,000) schools connecting to Internet

• 2,850 schools connecting daily (approx. monthly average)

• Phase II Roll-Out Commencing Q4 2009

» Significant increases in bandwidth (typically, up from 2Mbps to 7Mbps)» Large reduction in satellite connections (from 1,850 to 127 schools)» 8 Telcos interconnecting with HEAnet in Phase II

Schools Network Traffic Profile

Two Year Period: Nov 2007 to Oct 2009

Schools 100Mbit/s Programme

• Renewed Programme for Government to deliver 100Mbit/s connectivity to all post-primary schools (approx. 735)

• Programme sponsored by DCENR

• DCENR requested that HEAnet manage network

• Leverages public investment in HEAnet backbone network

• We acknowledge client community support re interconnecting schools across the country at campus PoP locations

• Initial pilot of 78 schools to be connected by 1 April 2010

• All post-primary schools to be connected by 2012

Co-location

• Fast and reliable connection to the HEAnet network

• Dual network connections• Dual power feeds• IP Multicast connectivity

• Hands-Off Management– Managed data centre

environment– Remote power access– Remote Keyboard, Video and

Mouse access– “Hands and Eyes” Service

• Optional Add-Ons– High performance storage

HEAnet PoPs

• Blanchardstown PoP: 8 new cabs for managed services and 8 cabinets for Client Co-location equipment.

• Parkwest PoP: 21 cabinets for HEAnet and additional 10 cabinets for Co-location.

Networking in East/Southern Africa

• DANTE has investigated the status of networking and NRENs in Eastern/Southern Africa as part of:

• Fibre is emerging in and between countries/continents

• NRENs are being established and the UbuntuNet Alliance is operational

• An EC project is proposed to stimulate the development of NRENs: AfricaConnect

• Twinning between European and African NREN is a method to help this development and HEAnet is looking into this (as we speak)

• If clients/users have working relations with Eastern/Southern African institutes; please let us know, so we can include this as part of evaluating a possible twinning. 26

Eastern/Southern Africa

ExistingNew

Conference Posters

Service Resilience

Service Resilience

Service Resilience: Project Timeline

15 Months Deployment Still on course as per original schedule

• Dual connectivity Paths to clients Complete• Diverse PoP connectivity completed Q1 2010• Power Resilience actively worked 10 PoP sites• CPE tender evaluation Complete• Deployment Dec -> Mar

National Information & Communication Technology Survey

• October 2009 – launch of a National ICT Survey - a joint endeavour by HEAnet and RCSI

• Survey studies the use of, and attitudes to technology by third level students in Ireland

• Current Stats.: ca. 3000 respondents from 10 Institutions

• To participate online: http://www.surveymonkey.com/nicts

• For further information contact:

Eric Clarke RCSI eclarke@rcsi.ie

Mike Norris HEAnet mike.norris@heanet.ie

Naomi Carroll HEAnet naomi.carroll@heanet.ie

Conference Programme• Network evolution• Wireless Strategy• Green Agenda• Cloud Computing• IP Addressing crisis

• Out-of-hours NOC2008 – pilot of 24 x 7 NOC2009 – 24 x 7 x 365 NOC for P1 outages

Evolution & Revolution

• The HEAnet network continues to evolve:2008/9 – Major Network Evolution2009/10 – Network Resilience project

• Software DevelopmentBuilding custom software to better manage and monitor

customer services

• Video content streaming for your users• Mirror services etc

• Getting more from our fibre

• Strategic Partnership• 1500 km fibre ring• High quality spec.

Evolution & Revolution

1470nm 1490nm 1510nm 1530nm 1550nm 1570nm 1590nm 1610nm

Up to 16DWDM channels insertion

into one 1550nm CWDM filter

1547.72nm 1553.33nm1549.32nm 1550.92nm 1552.52nm1548.51nm 1550.12nm 1551.72nm

0.8nm spacing

20nm spacing

Evolution & Revolution

Wireless Strategy

• A national quality affordable MNO wireless service

• Rollout emerging security middleware strategies- national E&R Federation- eduroam

• Build expertise on NG wireless (WIMAX or others) by supporting and assessing nominated trials

• Apply to COMREG for sectoral Wireless licences

• Conduct annual and mid term review

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Wireless Strategy

O2 Broadband DealHEAnet renegotiated its existing mobile broadband offer from O2 as at 1st September 2009 with an improved price plan.

The offer will be available to HEAnet Clients and Staff and Students at HEAnet Client Institutions.

There are two options:

1) A one-year contract at €9.99 a month2) A rolling 30-day contract at €12.99 a month

With both options a modem + SIM device is available at €20.

• E220 modem. 7.2Mbit/s down, 384kbit/s up • 10GB limit/month, fair usage applies

How Green can we afford to be

Dundalk Institute of Technology

Environmental Protection Agency

Investigating RE Sources

The Cloud

• What is 'The Cloud?' Does it have a silver lining? What are the pros and cons?

• What's the technology behind the marketing?

• Are all clouds created equal?• What's on the 'cloud' market today?• What's in it for me / my organisation?

The Cloud

• Case studies:Paul Doyle (DIT)Aidan McDonald (Cork IT)Ruth Lynch (UCD)

• The commercial / educational aspects of cloud:Michael D. King (Vice President, IBM Global Education

Industry)

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IPv4 crunch• Expect to bite in 18-24 months

• Business & strategic coverage• Help to build a business case

This is how we pictured the transition 15 years ago:

Transition plan

IPv6 Deployment

IPv4 PoolSize

Size of the Internet

IPv6 Transition using Dual Stack

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Geoff Huston, www.potaroo.net

This is where we are now:

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IPv6 Deployment

IPv4 PoolSize

Size of the Internet

IPv6 Transition

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Geoff Huston, www.potaroo.net

HEAnet’s IP Strategy

• Strand 1Prepare our businessfor IPv4 depletion

• Strand 2Make a working IPv6 only servicethat interoperates with IPv4

• Strand 3Support our customers and partners in the transition

The €5 billion SNIP

An Bord Snip Nua

Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes

Chairman: Mr Colm McCarthy, Schools of Economics, University College Dublin

The Shared Services Agenda

A Definition of Shared Services• An organisation model centred on achieving value for

money by bringing together activities previously performed in many units/organisations into a single or small number of centres, in order to perform routine or specialised processes more efficiently and effectively

Shared Services

Examples of Shared Services initiatives in the sector• HEAnet !!• An Chéim• Access Federation• Contract Services Manager• Schools leveraging E&R Backbone

• High Performance Computing• ICT and Networking Conferences

Shared Services -investigationservices

• High Performance Computing– Integration of ICHEC into HEAnet

• ICT and Networking Conferences

IPtv

• HEAnet is investigating an education& research broadcast channel using IPTV over our network.

• The technical resources and expertise already exists within Ireland’s third-level institutions.

• The creation, management and distribution of broadcast media would have immediate value for researchers, teachers and students.

• If successfully demonstrated, such an infrastructure for educational broadcasting could be converted into a platform for national and international distribution of content promoting Irish enterprise and scholarship.