HEAnet Conference, 2009 HEAnet Evolution & Revolution Updates on key technical developments Brian Boyle & Gareth Eason

HEAnet Conference, short months Collapsed Backbone network topology 2009 Federated Video hosting 24 x 7 NOC support Resilience Project DWDM in CWDM G/100G bandwidths GMPLS on ADVA optical layer

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Take on one additional service from the HEAnet services catalog If you can’t find one you want, suggest a service you need to us Homework

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Collapsed Backbone Pair of Cisco CRS-1 routers for Layer 3 network Highly available, hugely scaleable 100% availability of core to date s/w upgrade to IOS XR scheduled soon. All customers migrated All old equipment powered off

HEAnet Conference, Gbit/s pilot connections UCD connected at 2 x 10Gbit/s trial of new client connection model for HEAnet – direct λ from ADVA 10G L3 to CWT – primary BGP 10G L3 to KP – secondary BGP DCU at 2 x 10Gbit/s similar model direct to DCU CPE equipment

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Dual 10 Gbit/s to INEX 10Gbit/s connection to INEX In time for budget 2008 & emergency budget, April 2009 Peak of 7.3Gbit/s for budget – still an INEX record! Better connectivity for clients (to Google, etc.) Saving on transit costs 5.13Gbit/s

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Resilience Project Resilience for key HEAnet PoPs Upgrade of some client sites to PoP status Installation of UPS & generation plant Duplication of network kit Diverse fibre paths Working towards improving SLAs See Poster

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Interxion, Parkwest – live Feb 2009 Fit out nearing completion 102m 2 geographically diverse from existing Servecentric & Citywest PoPs Client colocation & hosting Off-site backup & replication Future services INEX presence Refreshed PoP Strategy

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Refreshed PoP Strategy Extend reach, resilience, capacity New PoP in LYIT migration from e|net PoP Upgrade client sites to PoP status (with resilience project): Cork IT Limerick IT Athlone IT... and more...

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Schools – Phase II % HEAnet backbone availability since inception in 2005 (Source: Norcontel Schools Broadband Program Evaluation Report 2009) Single day high of 3,745 (of 4,000) schools connecting the the internet 2,850 schools connecting daily (monthly avg.) Traffic profile doubling approx. every months Phase II rollout commencing Q4 2009: Increased bandwidth (2Mb ~ 7Mb typically) Reduction from 1,850 satellite connections to 127.

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Schools – Phase II Schools traffic profile: 2007 to 2009 (2 years)

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Schools 100Mb Renewed Program for Government to deliver 100Mbit/s connectivity to all post primary schools Pilot of 78 schools by 1st April 2009 All approx. 735 schools by 2012 Sponsored by DCENR, who requested HEAnet to manage the program Leverages public investment in HEAnet core net Acknowledge client community support re interconnecting schools at regional PoP locations

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Out-of-Hours NOC Now a full production service NOC available for P1 (complete site) outages, 24 x 7 x 365 Increasing number of tickets increased complexity of network significant planned works through better issue tracking See Poster

HEAnet Conference, 2009 NOC Manager Brian Nisbet takes on role of NOC Manager reporting to Network Operations first line of escalation after NOC

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Software Development Team Brian McArdle & Riccardo Carlesso Development of new applications Integration of existing apps Monitoring Client / contact management Fault tracking Asset & Contract management

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Services Catalogue Are you getting the most out of HEAnet? Get your copy today Printed copies at HEAnet stand Most services available at no extra charge! Something missing? Tell the SEG...

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Services Evaluation Group Help us to improve our service to you Representatives from HEAnet and clients Suggestion box new service ideas ideas for improvement Contact the SEG:

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Out-of-hours NOC 2008 – pilot of 24 x 7 NOC 2009 – 24 x 7 x 365 NOC for P1 outages HEAnet Evolution & Revolution The HEAnet network continues to evolve: 2008/9 – Major Network Evolution 2009/10 – Network Resilience project Software Development 2009 – Building custom software to better manage and monitor customer services

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Lambda Extension Expand the use of the CWDM spectrum from 8 to 16 wavelengths (without power) passive equipment from ‘Cube Optics’ (Germany) Retrofit multiple DWDM channels within a single CWDM channel facilitates co-existence of 1G & 10G wavelengths on the same fibre.

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Lambda Extension 1470nm1490nm1510nm1530nm1550nm1570nm1590nm1610nm Up to 16DWDM channels insertion into one 1550nm CWDM filter nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm 0.8nm spacing 20nm spacing

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Lambda Extension Existing fibre ring between HEAnet office and TCD being used as test bed All required equipment installed, configured and operational Next step: formal testing of 1G and 10G channels on new DWDM and existing CWDM channels.

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Video Streaming Simple multimedia hosting Accessed by federated login uses Edugate Content can be embedded in any webpage or used as a podcast, or a Windows Media file, etc. Content automatically ‘transcoded’ into multiple different formats

HEAnet Conference, 2009

Each version of the content has its own ‘embed’ code Selection of thumbnails to choose from ‘Transcoding’ work is queued for processing – user does not have to wait

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Video Streaming System developed in-house Summer ‘09 Currently on trial with University of Limerick Ready for more people to trial Aim to end trial & enter production, Q1 2010

HEAnet Conference, 2009 eduroam Roaming wifi access for users Use existing ‘home’ credentials when visiting a guest network Users can get internet access worldwide in any of the eduroam enabled institutions

HEAnet Conference, 2009 eduroam Now available in 13 Irish sites and 1000’s of European sites Guides / wizards / profiles available for: Windows Mac OS X iPhone / iPod Nokia We will help you with any other platforms you might need

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Mirror Service ftp.heanet.ie well known service providing fast access to many projects Challenges scale traffic to 10Gbit/s provide resilient scalability

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Mirror Service – why? Given growth of access capacities? 1Gbit/s not uncommon, 10Gbit/s not too far away content providers often have 1Gbits/s or more too Simple scaleability very popular content will always beat a 1Gbit/s pipe resilience sharing cost

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Mirror Service – what? Application transparently use global mirrors firefox updates ie.releases.ubuntu.com, ftp.ie.debian.org ClamAV anti-virus updates SourceForge many more...

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Mirror Service Architecture See Poster

HEAnet Conference, and beyond... Faster networking 40G v 100G standards? 10G connectivity to clients? Different connectivity layer 2 point-to-point connectivity (rather than L3?) layer 1 optical lamdbas with GMPLS? Ubiquitous networking 3G / HSPA connectivity Wimax

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Take on one additional service from the HEAnet services catalog If you can’t find one you want, suggest a service you need to us Homework