HEAnet Presentation to Internet2 International Task Force John Boland, HEAnet Chief Executive Monday, October30th, 2000

Outline of Presentation Irish NRN Background Current Climate HEAnet NGI Proposals Projects and Activities HEAnet’s Challenges

Irish Telecomms Climate (and Bill Gates !) Deregulation and Competition Aggressive E-commerce legislation Bill Gates’ contribution Government underwrites Global Crossing Transatlantic Cable 360Networks direct US/Ireland Internet access costs slashed

Telecomms Climate continued Spare Capacity to the US and 24 European cities Benefits starting to flow.. UUnet Backbone extended to Dublin MIT Media Lab Worldport, IBM, ASPs ….

HEAnet - Ireland’s NREN TCD and UCD from X.25 to a private IP network 1987 from Co-operative to Limited Not-for-Profit Company Board of Directors Annual Budget Public Procurement Policy

Members of HEAnet 7 Universities Dublin Institute of Technology 13 Institutes of Technology Tipperary Rural Business Development Institute Government Research Organisations MIT Media Labs ? Schools ? …..

The Services Internet Services for the community Direct Connections to the US, Europe, UK and the WorldWide Internet Hosted Databases- Web of Science, Security seminars... Now Mission Critical services...

HEAnet: Ten-155 Traffic To Ten-155 From Ten-155 TeraBytes/Month

HEAnet: US Traffic From US To US TeraBytes/Month

Next generation of Ireland’s Internet Background Government Policy Two-stranded approach Connecting to Internet2 and Geant Identifying the Collaboration opportunities A Vital Rôle in developing the Irish Information Society

Summary of Activities Negotiating Global Crossing STM-1 capacity to US and Europe Tenders underway for equipment and backhauls Plan for major Upgrade of national backbone

Projects seeking partners in Internet2 Dublin City University Multimedia Information Retrieval Research Group content-based navigation on digital video information intelligent dispatcher for access to Digital Libraries video collaboration with N. America on taught courses collaboration with Santa Fe Institute

Projects continued.. Trinity College Dublin Biochemistry Access to marine algal species information by CSIM image and distribute bio-diversity information over Internet2 Biomedical Computing Collaborations with Washington, Minnesota and Minneapolis Universities

Pilots underway US National Library of Medicine and Trinity College Dublin World Leading Telemedicine Supercomputer Project Trinity and Queen’s University Belfast Irish Computational Grid Developing a Strategy for Video Services TERENA Task Force on QoS/E2E

The Challenges Putting the Bandwidth in place for Q to Internet2 networks, CA*net3, Singaren... to Geant Stimulating the Applications US and European inter-working Internet2 E&R collaborations Funding advanced applications

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