Next Gen Internet for the Public Service

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Next Gen Internet for the Public Service

• AJ Borren
• LANLines

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My background

• MD of businesses in the telecoms industry
• Mitel NZ -1981-1988
• Telecom Wellington 1988-1992
• Alcatel NZ. 1994-1999
• I have been active in the ICT industry
• President of ITANZ - 2000-2002
• Chair of ICT reference group for FoRST - 2001-
• Establish the ICT cluster for Wellington City
  council - 2000
• Since 2000, part of developing technologies and
  solutions for Internet
• Shift
• First Light and LANLines
• NGI-NZ Society

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Some Facts

• In 10 years
• the transmission capacity of fibre optic cable
  has increased gt400,000x
• For the same tariff you get 50x the data
  bandwidth
• Our telecommunications networks operate at lt 0.1
  of their fiber potential capacity
• Technology - Computer speed networks
• Exabytes data storage at 1018th
• PetaFlops computer speed at 1015th
• Terabits/sec networking at 1012th
• Internet is at 104th . But RE networks are
  1011th
• It takes 6 days to send a typical DNA file over a
  2 Mb/s circuit, if you use the entire 2 Mb/s
  capacity

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A LAN-to-LAN network

• A market failure in computer networking
• The point-point leased line model for data
  creates the market failure
• Internet is universal access . but only good for
  text
• The LAN is the users network model
• A telecommunications link that provides remote
  connection for digital tools
• LANs PCs,servers, host computers, printers
  etc
• TV and Film studios, multimedia (incl cable tv)
• Communications tools phones, PABX, Video
  calls/conferences, Messaging, Internet .
• Technology changes have created abundant capacity
  at low incremental cost, affordable high speed
  processors and very large data storage facilities
• The telecommunications industry is constraining
  the take up scaling up is too expensive -
  except for RE networks

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The Organisations LAN

• The local network that is used to connect a
  multitude of users and tools to each other.
  Universal access, always on
• The nature of the user or tools demand for the
  network occasional high bit-rate bursts
• The nature of a LAN network
• High speed 10 8th
• Shared by many
• Largely idle
• Edge-controlled
• Scaled at marginal cost
• There is no such thing as a LAN traffic engineer
  - you just increase the bandwidth

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Technical description for NGI-NZ

• Access to a fibre pair with 10Gb/s wavelengths
  and GigE lightpaths.
• Lambda networking, as it is properly defined by
  the telecommunications industry, is the
  technology and set of services directly
  surrounding the use of multiple optical
  wavelengths to provide independent communications
  channels along a strand of fiber optic cable.
• 10Gb/s Optical ADMs are readily available and
  break lambdas into GigEs If you have a
  fibre optic cable, then the cheapest network to
  build is in blocks of 10 Gb/s
• More than 100 lambdas/fibre-pair, today, will
  create pools of lightpaths 1GigE paths over
  vlans separate services over the core
  video-streaming, audio/video calls, computer
  grids, data grids, remote access to eqpt and
  laboratories etc.
• Dynamically controlled bandwidth GigE on-demand
  or always-on

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The Public Service needs its own NGI solution

• Negotiate a nationwide access to a high-speed
  fibre network a private network limited to the
  Public Service.
• Establish a series of Open GigaPOPs, alongside
  the RE network, with peering agreements to other
  networks.
• Develop the access networks to the GigaPOPs on a
  pragmatic case-by-case basis - fiber, wireless,
  satellite, copper
• Use and Access Policies
• Public access establish security, authentication
  and accounting policies at the Gateways to the
  Public Service network (the GigaPOPs)
• Public Service access establish an edge
  controlled culture within the Public Service
  private network.
• How to get there - similar programme as for
  NGI-NZ.
• Ask LAN-lines

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LANLines TransACT - CityLink Canberra/Sydney-
Wellington/Auckland
LANLines International Broadband Link
Customer LAN
TNZI contract
Customer LAN
TransACT VLAN
Wellington
Sydney
Auckland
CityLink Gbit/s Switched Ethernet
Network PublicLAN
TransACT

Router
Router
Canberra
ISP
Customer LAN
INTERNET
ISP
Customer LAN
Traditional internet connectivity