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Smart Gigabit
Communities
Glenn Ricart
January 26, 2016

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Chattanooga EPB
Burlington Telecom
One Community Cleveland
UTOPIA
Verizon FiOs
Google Fiber
AT&T Gigapower
CenturyLink gigabit
Comcast 2-gigabit

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4 apps have received
VC funding

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Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications (SESA)
Gigabit
Community centric
Interoperable
Interconnected
Attract community investment

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Gigabit

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Community
Centric

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What would a Metro Internet look like if it were
designed to support:
- Internet of Things (IoT)?
- Billions of wireless devices?
- Industrial Internet?
- Low-cost endpoints? (close digital divide)
Roll that out in cities across the U.S. and
globally and use it to leverage innovative
applications and services.

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Interoperable

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Interconnected

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Community
Investment

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Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications (SESA)
Gigabit
Community centric
Interoperable
Interconnected
Attract community investment

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Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC)
Gigabit
Community centric
Interoperable
Interconnected
Attract community investment

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Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC)
Kickoff

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Smart Gigabit Communities

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Benefits for Participating Cities
• A fully interconnected metro gigabit Internet
• Smart city brain + smart city applications
• IoT
• Industrial Internet (digital manufacturing)
• Cyberphysical systems
• Attract entrepreneurs and economic development and tech jobs
• Gigabit innovation and ecosystem of gigabit applications
• Growing your initial metro gigabit Internet and smart city brain
• Nonpartisan rallying point for business-government-education
collaboration
• Digitally self-sufficient communities
• Bridge digital divide
• Federal seed money
• National recognition as a Smart Gigabit Community

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A Few Details
• 3 year NSF grant ends September 2018
• But it only plants the seed –
we expect sustainable community investment
• Grant provides for 3 more communities in the last year
• Accepting additional self-funded communities
• Interim results at Application Summits – June 13-15, Austin
• Community
• Steering group
• Support the new metro Internet architecture & apps
• Activate the local tech community for sustainable growth
• Technical
• Digital Town Square
• Smart City Brain

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National Community Leader
Nishal Mohan, Ph.D.
National Technical Leader
Scott Turnbull

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Digital Town
Square
Interconnect your
islands of gigabit
Google Fiber
CenturyLink
Local K-12
Network
Slice Controller
Local
datacenter w/
Docker
containers
GENI Rack
Local University
Large Local Employer
Local WISP
Internet 2

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GENI Rack or equivalent
Interconnected with other communities
Privacy-protected slices
Transition to commercial infrastructure
Smart City Brain

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SMART GIGABIT COMMUNITIES
SGCGigabit Apps
Gigabit Infrastructure
Gigabit Community Activities
More resilient city
Economic growth
Bridge digital divide
Civic pride
Innovation

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Digital Town Square

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Digital Town
Square
Interconnect your
islands of gigabit
Google Fiber
CenturyLink
Local K-12
Network
Slice Controller
Local
datacenter w/
Docker
containers
GENI Rack
Local University
Large Local Employer
Local WISP
Internet 2

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Home or Business SDX – Paradrop.io
Chute
Chute
Via carrier to
digital town square
Chute
Chute
OpenWRT with Paradrop

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Connectivity Options

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Connectivity Options
A wide variety is possible
1.You have a GENI rack in your community – you’re already
connected
2.US Ignite provides a GENI rack or equivalent
a)State or regional education network
b)Internet2

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Examples of Smart Gigabit Community
Applications

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What are the new applications and what do they need?
G = Gigabit to end user; I = slice Isolation for privacy/security; R=
engineered deterministic response time and reliability
• Cloud-based Home Medical Monitoring (I, R, sometimes G)
• Cloud-based Control of Home Medical Devices (I, R, sometimes G)
• Cloud-based virtual reality headsets for experiential education (G, R)
• Stream complex apps from a local cloud to close digital divide (G, R)
• Helping a child of immigrants learn to read by listening / correcting
(I, R)
• Visualizing large databases (e.g., pollution sources, transit services,
a patient’s own medical scans) (G, R, sometimes I)

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What are the new applications and what do they need?
G = Gigabit to end user; I = slice Isolation for privacy/security; R=
engineered deterministic response time and reliability
• Coordinating peak energy uses across buildings (R, sometimes I)
• Real-time infrastructure for continuous-motion vehicles (V2I) (I, R)
• Consumer-based GIS systems (G, R, sometimes I)
• Realtime license plate scanning (I, R)
• Continuous health monitoring and response (e.g., smart underwear,
embedded sensors) (I, R)
• Reduced-cost low-latency Telepresence (G, I, R)
• Many more at us-ignite.org and globalcityteams.org

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Afternoon – White House Slide

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SMART GIGABIT COMMUNITIES
SGCGigabit Apps
Gigabit Infrastructure
Gigabit Community Activities
More resilient city
Economic growth
Bridge digital divide
Civic pride
Innovation

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Backup slides and notes

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Technical Observations
• Metro access capacity growing much faster than backbone capacity
• Much of the new traffic from the Internet of Things and
Cyberphysical Systems can be acted on locally (within the city)
• For latency and reliability purposes, much of that new traffic should
be acted upon locally (within the city)
• Slicing (GENI style or multi-tenant style) would aid in security by
isolating traffic
• Wireless is as important as wired (or fibered)
What Metropolitan Internet design would best support the above?

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Metropolitan Internet Design Objectives
• Keep local traffic local: Locavore / edge
• Implies dispersing the cloud for local-only processing
• Keep sensitive traffic isolated: Slicing / orchestration
• Leverage bandwidth in the local gigabit access networks
• Improve perceived quality of service for current customers
• Leverage a city’s natural soft organizational infrastructure (mayor, office
of economic development, chamber of commerce, university expertise
and student availability, etc.)
• Work with tech corporations to achieve their objectives (local + nat’l)
• Focus on win-win actions to keep maximum constituency

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Metropolitan Internet Design Advantages
• Any design that meets the previous page also:
• Makes a city more resilient (less prone to problems caused by natural
disasters elsewhere)
• Attracts new economic development around smart cities, IoT,
cyberphysical systems, entrepreneurs
• Establishes a basis for university / city partnerships
• Fosters civic pride
• Encourages competition in providing local services

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Draft: Intended Progression of Digital Town Square
1. Traditional layer 3 exchange point
IP adressing; no flow identification
2. Software-defined layer 2 flow identification / switching
Flows explicitly identified with their desired handling
Applications negotiate w/controllers for their desired flow handling
(also needed for incremental billing)
Deterministic handling may mean many things including:
Priority
Drop or queue
When to re-negotiate
When to notify application about actual packet handling
Flow isolation for security
Etc.