Robin Winsor's presentation to IBM about Cybera's cloud initiatives

2. CLOUD INITIATIVES

3. Alberta
Co.
Cybera Pilot Commercial
Cloud Cloud

4. Small
Educational
Institution
Cybera Pilot Commercial
Cloud Cloud

5. 4,000,000
# of users
$ / User

6. Demand For Network Services
• Academic
– Growing but well served
– Funding difficulties
• Public
– Urban
• Growing but well served
– Rural
• Grossly under-served

7. 4,000,000
# of users
Community
Lab
$ / User

8. “The
Olds
Ins,tute
for
Community
and
Regional
Development
Technology
Commi=ee
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
Administra5ve
Officer
for
Olds

9. 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.

10. “Governments
must
regard
the
internet
as
basic
infrastructure
-­‐
just
like
roads,
waste
and
water”
-­‐
Dr
Hamadoun
Toure,
Secretary-­‐general
of
the
Interna5onal
Telecommunica5on
Union
“…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

11. Population Density
(Population / Sq Km)
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0

12. Alberta – Population Distribution

13. 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

14. Federal Initiatives
• Canada’s Economic Action Plan
– $225M
• Broadband Canada – Connecting Rural Canadians
• $76.9M for first 52 projects
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0

15. Federal Initiatives
Company Region Homes
Corridor Taber, Pincher Creek, Ranchland and Counties of
Communica Cypress, Forty Mile, Warner, Lethbridge and
tions Inc. Cardston 5,577
Bighorn and Counties of Clearwater and
CCI Yellowhead 2,465
CCI Counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, and Ponoka 1,867
CCI Athabasca Region, Peace River Region 11,335
Wood Buffalo, Bonnyville and counties of
CCI Lakeland, St. Paul, and Smoky Lake 1,488
PCC
Communica Forty Mile, Warner, Cypress, and extended
tions Inc. regions of Willow Creek 1,516
PCC Regions of Crowfoot, Vegreville, and Wainwright 8,134
PCC Foothills, Rocky View, and Mountain View 2,475
Jasper, Kananakis, Bighorn and Counties of
PCC Clearwater and Yellowhead 436
PCC North Central Region / Stony Plain District 1,817
Peace Region / Peace River & Grande Prairie
PCC Districts 1,905
Total 39,015

19. Homes Businesses
Homes Businesses
Homes Businesses
Homes
Distribution
SuperNet Point
Content Satellite
Co. Farm
Cybera Pilot SuperNet
Cloud Commercial
Cloud

20. NETWORK INITIATIVES

21. New Initiatives
• Network access cost reduction
– Peering
• Service improvement
• Network efficiency
– Academic cost reduction
– Commercial possibilities

22. The Internet
Google $$ $$ Facebook
Large
ISP
$$ $$
Large Large
ISP ISP
$$
$$
U of A

23. The Internet
Google $$ $$ Facebook
Large
ISP
$$ $$
Large Large
ISP ISP
$$
$$
Cybera
U of A U of C etc,…

24. What is Peering?
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
04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 24

25. The Internet + Internet Exchanges
Google $$ $$ Facebook
Large
Microsoft
ISP
$$ $$
Large
IX Switch ISP Large
ISP
$$
$$
Akamai
Cybera
U of A U of C etc,…

26. Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX)
• Many small / medium / large ISP and content
providers
• Connect once, reach many
• IPv4 and IPv6
• First 1Gb/s port Free!
• $1,000 one time fee additional port
• $5,000 (one time) for a 10Gb/s port
• http://www.seattleix.net/participants.htm

27. Private peering Google
• Google is the single largest content provider
• Many Google services, incl Youtube.com
• 1Gb/s private connection between BCNET and
Google
• IPv6 and IPv4
04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 27