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Dr. Darin PW Graham

President, CEO

www.orion.on.ca

As one of the world’s fastest Research and Innovation networks, we can support infinite possibilities

By the numbers• Self-sustaining not-for-profit

• Nearly 6000km of optical fibre connecting over 30 PoPs

• Over 2 million researchers, scientists, faculty, teachers, students and innovative organizations every day

• Contribute over $140M annually to Ontario’s GDP

• 100Gb/second and testing for 400 equivalent to 100,000 iTunes downloaded in 1

minute

• > 50% annual growth in network usage with < 5% cost increase passed on to our members

Collaboration

Collaborate with major Telco's and suppliers

Including Bell, Hydro One, Rogers, Cogent, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent. We support Canadian industry

Collaborate with leading IT vendors to build

ORION Nebula – cloud sharing model driven by members for members

Over 100 member institutions across Ontario universities, colleges, research hospitals, K-12 school boards, innovation centres & cultural institutions

Over 2 million users daily restricted to research, education and innovation

users

Working together forOntario’s future

Connecting BIG data…

High-Def streaming

Atlas project: Higgs boson discovery

Vineyard monitoring

International Consortium on

Anti-Virals

The God ParticleORION handled

upwards of 10% of data for Higgs boson discovery

Experiential Media research program

at York relies on O3

High school student Marshall Zhang

conducts groundbreaking research in cystic fibrosis

DominicanRepublic’s national

power provider learns from ORION’s

infrastructure, business model and member base

… and BIG ideas

Consistent, reliablesound and video quality reduces power consumption by 50%

What do peoplewant from a network?

everything

cycles

centres

connectivity cloud

challengescollaboration

Planning ahead to build the

infrastructure to support

anticipated plans for computing

Cycles

Cloud Computing Changing the world of Advanced Computing/HPCDiversifying access to more users

Centres

Exponential growth in data

Centralized efficiencies Choosing the location

GOING GREEN – power needs

Improved data accessibility, storage and recovery

CLOUD STORAGE

> Regional Footprint

Reliability and Redundancy

Connectivity

> 99.99%

The LAST MILE working with local providers

“New” technologies

WIRELESS

Deciding base needs with flexibility to scale

500Gband 1Tbps

Avoid Re-inventing the Wheel

Increasing Accessibility for everyone

Technical and administrative support

Building broader partnerships

Government support

Leverage what you’ve got in novel ways

Collaboration

• More efficient

• Shared resources

• Less cost

• Faster implementation

• Adjust resources dynamically

• Correct mistakes easier

A fast, reliable, redundant network is critical

The world is reaching for the cloud

Typical Services

Data & Computing Administrative Support Government

Last Mile availability

What are the REAL user requirements

Linking Research with Commercial Innovation

Cost and timing of implementation

Legacy systems and transition to Cloud

Intra- & Inter-region connectivity

Challenges

cycles

centres

cloud

challenges

With vision, collaboration and creativity, the possibilities are infinite.

www.orion.on.ca @ORIONNetwork