Alberta’s Public, Digital Resource February 7, 2018 ... · Alberta’s Public, Digital Resource The Quilt - 2018 Winter Member Meeting Alyssa Moore, Policy & Strategy Analyst February

Alberta’s Public, Digital Resource

The Quilt - 2018 Winter Member Meeting

Alyssa Moore, Policy & Strategy AnalystFebruary 7, 2018

ABOUT me

Policy & Strategy Analyst

● Policy, legislative analysis & compliance○ Telecommunications policy ○ Privacy & security

● Government relations○ Advising○ Facilitating opportunities○ Advocating for our membership community

● Participating in the wider Internet community○ American Registry for Internet Numbers [Advisory Council]○ Internet Society Canada Chapter [Program & Events Committee)○ CIRA (.ca) [Community Investment Program Committee & Nominating

Committee]○ City of Calgary [Smart Cities Community Team]

Cybera is one of 12 provincial and territorial network partners who,

together with CANARIE, form the National

Research and Education Network

Alberta

Area: 255,541 mi²Population: 4 million

Alberta

Albertans Connected to Cybera

Cybera Member Organization Breakdown

665,096Students or Employees (Full Time Equivalent)

K-12 and Post-Secondary Institutions Students Connecting to Cybera

Funding & Finances

Staff: 33Teams: 6

● Project and Partnership Development● Infrastructure and Tech Services

○ Network○ Operations○ Development

● Finance and Administration● Communications & Policy

Strategic Pillars: 4● CONNECT (Network)● ENABLE (Cloud and data science)● SHARE (Shared services)● ADVOCATE (Policy, communications, advocacy)

Numbers

Connect

Cybera Network Initiatives

● Network Growth and Redundancy

● Pilot Project○ Dynamic Bandwidth Control

● Local Internet Exchanges

Bandwidth Increases

Internet Buying Group

Peering Service

Price as of February 2018: $2.25/Mbps

Monthly paid service, based on FTEs at the organization:

● Less than 1,000 FTE — $50/month ● 1,001 - 10,000 FTE — $100/month ● More than 10,000 FTE — $500/month

Building Infrastructure

Pilot ProjectsDynamic Bandwidth Control – SDN/NFV Research Project● Provide minimum bandwidth guarantee to clients, while allowing all active

clients in the network to fairly share any spare capacity.

Enable

Rapid Access Cloud

Examples of use:

● A Minecraft world that let K-12 students simulate the life of pioneers

● Housing a social media app created by University of Calgary researchers

● Helping local animators render their films in the cloud

Data Science

Share

Firewall as a Service● Inspired by hosted FW pilot● Grant from Alberta Education● Leveraging Cybera’s network

and cloud expertise● Openstack / KVM + FW of

choice (Paloalto, pfSense + CIRA D-Zone combo)

● Infrastructure Self-service model

● Disruption of current practices? (launch Q1 2018)

● Piloted with 12 school authorities from December 2015 to November 2017, funded by Alberta Education

● Production ready for this spring

K-12 Identity Federation

ShareIT Savings for Alberta Education: $1.66 Million

Advocate

Municipal● Van Horne Institute’s ‘Digital

Futures’ events bring together rural municipalities from around the province to discuss connectivity

● Partnering with cities on network builds, and advocating for access to dark fibre & Internet Exchange Points

Provincial● SuperNet

● Report on the State of Network Infrastructure in Alberta

● Workshops on rural broadband

● Alberta Data Analytics Exchange

National● CRTC Interventions:

○ Wholesale fibre access

○ Basic Service Objective

○ Reseller registration obligation

● Government of Canada RFIs

● CANARIE and provincial NREN coordination

International● American Registry for

Internet Numbers (ARIN) Advisory Council

● Monitoring policy and legislation from abroad:

○ General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR in Europe)

○ Policy developments in USA

www.cybera.ca | @cybera

Thank you!

cybera.ca | @cybera

[email protected]