CANARIE’s Next Mandate The Way Forward Jim Roche, President and CEO June 12, 2012 CANHEIT 2012 | Saskatoon, SK

A quick overview of CANARIE… CANARIE runs Canada’s ultra-high-bandwidth research network Connects one million users at 1,100 institutions 19,000 km of fibre; 40 Gbps backbone – 60,000 times FASTER than a typical residential Internet connection International connections to 100 countries and over 100 peer networks Funds programs that enable greater access to research data, tools and peers Funds programs to stimulate the ICT sector CANARIE works with provincial network partners to connect: Every Canadian university Canada’s “big science” facilities like TRIUMF, NEPTUNE, CLS, SNOLAB, and to Compute Canada HPC consortia Research hospitals and health networks All the Networks of Centres of Excellence Hundreds of CEGEPs and colleges; thousands of high schools Primary investment is from Government of Canada Investment of $480M since

CANARIE Mandate Renewal Map date: 29 May 2012 Announced March 29: $40M Two year mandate

Cost Recovery All programs will have an element of “cost recovery” Goal: establish most effective model for cost sharing between provincial and federal governments Fees will be implemented gradually over mandate period. Target for last year of mandate: 10-15% of costs We will engage in extensive stakeholder consultation

CANARIE’s Strategic Objectives 1. World-leading network and associated services2. Research middleware3. Cloud platform

CANARIE’s Strategic Objectives 1. World-leading network and associated services Enable pan-Canadian collaboration capability through a world-leading high-performance network and associated network services.

Traffic Growth 7 Source: CANARIE internal Traffic from grew over 50% per year. Forecast: continued growth over 50% per year. This calls for ~3.5x core network bandwidth over next three years (40Gbps to 150Gbps)

Network + Services Support tomorrow’s digital research Pan- Canadian fibre network Capacity build-out to meet demand Canadian Access Federation Content Delivery Service More “above the network” services

CANARIE’s Strategic Objectives 2. Research middleware Build technologies to enable new collaboration capabilities. Evolution of Network-Enabled Platforms (NEP)

Research Middleware Accelerate research outcomes Leverage existing platforms Increase collaboration Reduce duplication Partner internationally Partner with industry

CANARIE’s Strategic Objectives 3. Cloud platform Cloud computing services and network test bed leveraging CANARIE infrastructure to stimulate ICT development and adoption. Extension of DAIR pilot program.

Who Will Benefit from DAIR? Small and Medium-sized Enterprises ICT Research Community

CANARIE’s Strategic Objectives 1. World-leading network and associated services2. Research middleware3. Cloud platform

Thank You Map date: 29 May 2012 Jim Roche (613)