CANARIE’s Next Mandate The Way Forward Jim Roche, President and CEO June 12, 2012 CANHEIT 2012 | Saskatoon, SK www.canarie.ca
Feb 23, 2016
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