1. Strategies for Clouds & Mobility
Eoin Kenny
HEAnet
11 April 2019

2. Celebrating 15 years:

3. Mobility & Clouds User location Service location Future
On his/her campus on A campus off-campus
User location
Past
on-campus private cloud community cloud/public cloud
Service location

4. Mobility Trends

5. Trends Anytime, Any place, Anywhere
Internet has become a necessity in life
Be on social networks or lose your friends
Streaming and Storage – move to cloud
Smartphone triggers impulsive usage
Great potential for Tablet PC
Source: Ericsson Consumer Lab Study

6. Copyright 2008 John Klossner, www.jklossner.com
Clouds & Mobility
“He won’t come in until he finds out if we have wifi”
Copyright 2008 John Klossner,

7. Explosion of mobile devices
Devices and Usage
Explosion of mobile devices
Multiple devices per student
Over 100% growth in Wireless devices year-on-year (TCD)
37k mobile devices connecting to WiFi in one month (UCD)
70% traffic is social networking (UCD)
2011 – More Smart Phones sold than PCs
Usage
Small screen - Mobile
Large screen - Nomadic
Streaming not download
Coverage

8. An Irish University Campus
37,000 unique devices on the Wifi network in Feb 2012 and rising!

9. Device Growth Mobile Broadband
Subscriptions (HSDPA)
593,208
September 2011 there were 5,473,757 Mobile phone subscriptions in Ireland 120%
Post PC era has arrived!
Q iPAD sales now larger than all HP PCs.....

10. HEAnet’s Mobility Strategy

11. Mobility Strategy Be on the move and on campus Mobility
Advise and promote WLAN solution on/off campus
Be on the move and on campus
Mobility
Provide national mobile broadband access service
Facilitate the use of new mobile devices
Enabling access Any time Anywhere Any device

12. HEAnet/O2 Mobile Broadband
10GB 12 month contract
Postpay data bundle
2GB shareable
Prepay data bundle 700MB every second month free
30 day rolling contract 5GB
Prepay upfront €99.90 for 10mths
€9.99

13. Mobility Broadband Traffic

14. eduroam, Ireland and Europe

15. Who uses eduroam in Ireland?

16. eduroamers - Where do they go?

17. Ensure sufficient Quality of Experience for e-learning E-learning
Provide support of content delivery from the cloud
Provide support for e- learning anytime anywhere
Next Generation learning and research
Supporting Distance and Life Long Learning with data hungry content

18. HEAnet’s
Cloud Services

19. Higher Education Network
National Education & Research Network
Learning
Collaboration
Research
Innovation
Higher Education Network
Schools Network
Researcher Network
International
100 Mbit/s
1 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
Global Reach
Data & Applications Hosting
Webhosting
Filesender
Repositories
Data Sets
Wikis
VLEs
Media
IPTV
Blogs
Streaming
Video Conf
Content
e - Infrastructure
High Performance Computing
Data Centres
Fibre Backbone
Storage

20. Service Model Terminology
Cloud
Service Model Terminology

21. Cloud platforms SaaS Thousands of others! PaaS IaaS End Users
Application
Developers
IaaS
Network
Architects

22. IaaS PaaS SaaS Operating System Operating System Operating System
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Operating System
Operating System
Operating System
Virtualisation
Virtualisation
Virtualisation
Three service models
Off campus cloud

23. In house - everything Operating System Virtualisation On campus cloud
App
App
App
Operating System
Virtualisation
On campus cloud

24. Cloud platforms Thousands of others! SaaS PaaS IaaS End Users
Application
Developers
IaaS
Network
Architects

25. Introducing
EduStorage

26. EduStorage Service Launch date Q2 2012 500TB initial usable capacity;
250TB per datacentre;
Scalable to 10PB (or 32PB with external controllers);
Presented as block-level, iSCSI storage;
Thin provisioning;
Snapshots, replication, mirroring;
Integration with Edugate;
Utilisation reports, metering;
HEAnet’s Data storage service

27. EduStorage Service Profile
SLA
Service available to use: 24x365
Client support calls: 9-5:30, 5d
Self-service
Authorisation thresholds configurable;
User Data
Users own their data;
Data resides in Ireland;
Standard HEAnet AUP (data protection legislation);
Service promotion within institutions;

28. EduStorage pricing HEAnet absorbing setup cost Comparison:
Cost recovery basis;
Price: €275 per TB/year;
Comparison:
*subject to Amazon’s network/traffic volume charges
Storage provider
TB/year
300 TB, 3 years
Dropbox
€1,500
€1,350,000
Amazon EBS (1 TB max)
€4,320*
€3,888,000*
aDrive.com
€950
€855,000

29. Any time, Any place, Any device
Mobility
Cloud

30. Solution for everything.....