Copyright © AARNet, 2005 aarnet Australia's Academic and Research Network APAN - Bangkok 2005 AARNet3 update and Uncompressed HD Video experiences Andrew Howard Co-ordinating Engineer Advanced Communications Services and International Liaison

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Topics AARNet 3 update HD video at SC04

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNet, Australia

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNet Australia's Academic and Research Network A “Not for profit” Carrier owned by the 38 Australian Universities, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Funded by the member Universities, Federal Department of Science and Technology, Federal Department of Education and State Governments. Serving 800,000 users across Australian continent. 30,000 VoIP calls, 300 direct IP video calls and multiparty video conferences calls per day (PSTN bypass). 10xGbE, 1xGbE, ATM, SS7 and ISDN interconnects to other network providers nationally and internationally.

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNet, Australia

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNet3 National network Dark Fibre “Dense Wave-Division Multiplexing” (DWDM) providing: –32 wavelengths of 10Gbps capacity initially –Supports growth to 64 or more wavelengths of 40Gbps over life of the network

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNet International network

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Strategic Alliance: AARNet and Southern Cross Cable Networks (SCCN) AARNet has worked with SCCN since 2000, initially deploying dual 155Mbps circuits between Sydney, Hawaii and the Pacific Wave GigaPoP in the Seattle In December 2003 AARNet and SCCN announced a major new strategic initiative – the Southern Cross Trans Pacific Optical Research Testbed The “bundle” of services that AARNet acquired from SCCN involves 3 sets of circuits

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Overview - International Links Add drop offs to existing dual STM-1/OC3 (155Mbps) –Mixed traffic - R&E and Commodity –University of South Pacific, Fiji –Possibly New Zealand –Connects to 155Mbps path to Tokyo from Hawai‘i Dual STM-4 (622Mbps) –Commodity Internet transit - NTT/Verio and Sprint –PAIX Palo Alto –Los Angeles “SX TransPORT” - Dual STM-64 (10Gbps) –Research and Education (R&E) traffic only - AUP –Hawai‘i - Manoa and Seattle (Abilene, CA*net 4, NLR) –Los Angeles (Abilene, TransPac, CENIC, CUDI) –Look to add Mauna Kea to Los Angeles path later

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Dual 155Mbps circuits – regional and Pacific Island connectivity 4-drop ring (4 unprotected circuits, MPLS, fast failover) –Sydney-Suva (new) –Suva-Oahu (Hawaii) – and then to U Hawaii, Manoa –Oahu-Hillsboro – and then to Pacific Wave, Seattle –Hillsboro-Sydney AUSAID to provide funding for the University of the South Pacific to contract AARNet to provide connections to AARNet and the global R&E Networks (monopoly carrier issues) Interconnect at Hawaii with new Hawaii –Tokyo link USPNet to other Pacific Islands to be upgraded later Possible connection of NZ later

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNET’s Pacific Rim STM1’s

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Dual 622Mbps circuits – commodity traffic Access Commodity Internet in Palo Alto –Backhaul in place from Market Post Tower, San Jose –Connected to the PAIX peering fabric –Transit in place with NTT/Verio, Sprint is second transit provider –Peer with other organisations at PAIX Second commodity POP in Los Angeles –Build PoP at Telehouse America and peer in LA complex –Backhaul from Morro Bay (San Luis Obispo) being finalised –Transit providers, Sprint plus one of NTT/Verio or MCI

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 AARNET’s Commodity dual 622Mbps circuits

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Dual 10Gbps circuits – SXTransPORT Trans Pacific Optical Research Testbed Major new partnership announced between AARNet and Southern Cross Cable Network (SX) on 11 December 2003 Support from Australian Government Dual 10Gbps circuits between Australia and US West Coast Activation Q3/2004, Initial term 5 years, option for 5-year term AUP applies similar to Abilene Advisory Board to be set up with reps expected from SX, AARNet, global research interests Will provide affordable high throughput access allowing Australia to effectively participate in global e-science initiatives Will strengthen case for locating unique research facilities in Australia, eg Square Kilometre Array

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 SXTransPORT

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 A cooperative model that could build on the NSF solicitation

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Research Channel Global UW effort to expand ResearchChannel (RC) to international peer networks. RC is an on-demand and multicast media archive hosted by UW. Discussions initiated with RC at fall I2 meeting October 2003 to utilise RC technology and content base to implement RC as an local A3 service. RC-Global will build on the success of RC and will utilise emerging Digital Video (DV) and High Definition (HD) standards to support next generation content and network developments.

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 ResearchChannel.org

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Research Channel – AARNet SC04 Demo Uncompressed High Definition video between Canberra Australia and Supercomputer 2004 showfloor Pittsburgh USA. 2 PCI Express dual Xeon Intel systems used to capture, transmit, receive and display video in both directions. AJA HD capture (SDI) and display cards – Technology developed by ResearchChannel –

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 How to watch

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Research Channel Australia On-demand and multiple streamed channels over AARNet3 –Parliament TV feed –ABC multichannel service –AARNet Training material –Recordings of presentations –Contributed material –Sponsored material –Student and special interest radio stations

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Supercomputing 2004

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Uncompressed High Definition Video 1920x1080/60i 1.4 Gigabits per second That equates to 1 DVD being transmitted in both directions every 7 seconds Or 8.5 DVD's every minute First leg of 10 Gigabit SXTransport Link Sydney to Seattle activated and run at 30% capacity for 5 days to support SuperComputing 2004 That's a lot of DVD equivalents (~40,000) Built from “off the shelf” components

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Canberra – Sony Camera and Monitor

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Live for the first time

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Live to Pittsburgh

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Tim and Amy

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 ResearchChannel Team in Pittsburgh

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 DEST staff in Canberra

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 George and Mike speak to Pittsburgh

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Audience View in Pittsburgh

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 Andrew and Stephen discussing advanced Video Conferencing

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 George and Andrew in makeup

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 The future of Television Prof. R.L. Koolhaas – Wired Aug 2004 “With the introduction of digital TV, the concept of video or audio footage will become obsolete, replaced by the generic nature of digital files.”

aarnet → Copyright © AARNet, 2005 The future of Television: Consequences The following are potential consequences: –Files will be stored and retrieved easily and, furnished with 'metadata', also searched more effectively. The TV station will be a searchable data archive, much like a library. –Video on demand and bandwidth on demand will create a new balance between what a TV station wants its viewers to look at and what the viewer wants to watch. The TV station will be a content provider rather than a broadcaster only. –Interactivity will allow a TV station to communicate directly with its viewers, with profound implications for the kind of programs that will be produced. The TV station will be not only the mouth, but also the ears of the nation. –With the advent of digital cinema, TV and movies will simply be different resolutions of the same material, with profound implications for production, storage and distribution. –From being a specialised “manufacturer” of TV content, the digital TV station will become the central hub in a network for the production and distribution of moving images, and could take a much more widely defined cultural role.

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