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

CANARIE’s Next Mandate

The Way ForwardJim Roche, President and CEO

June 12, 2012CANHEIT 2012 | Saskatoon, SK

www.canarie.ca

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 1993

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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 services

2. Research middleware

3. 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

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Source: CANARIE internal

Traffic from 2007-2010 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 services

2. Research middleware

3. Cloud platform

Thank You

Map date: 29 May 2012

Jim Roche

jim.roche@canarie.ca(613) 851-4036