JUCC & HARNET July 2004 Cairns, Australia. JUCC Offsite Workshop at Tsinghua University – Nov 2003.

JUCC & JUCC & HARNETHARNET

July 2004July 2004

Cairns, AustraliaCairns, Australia

JUCC Offsite Workshop at Tsinghua University – Nov 2003

The Value of JUCC

Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC)

Founded in 1970

Consortium of all University IT/Computer Centres in Hong Kong

JUCC leads in IT excellence for the universities

Good cooperation among IT/Computer Centre colleagues

Strong computer and network expertise

HARNET

Hong Kong Academic and Research NETwork (HARNET)

Managed by the Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC)

Supports the eight Universities funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC)

Also supports some non-profit organizations in Hong Kong

JUCC members The University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Baptist University

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Lingnan University

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Other JUCC members Affiliate Members

Open University of Hong Kong Vocational Training Council (Institute of

Vocational Education) Network Members

Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority

Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks

History of HARNET 1985 - Set up with UUCP connections

1989 - Connected to BITNET with dedicated link

1991 - Connected to Internet at 64 Kbps to USA

1992 - JUCC takes over management of HARNET

funded by University Grants Committee

1993 - 128 Kbps Internet link

1995 - 1.544 (T1) Mbps Internet link with local

T1 star network

1996 - 64 Kbps connection to CERNET (via CityU

of HK to Tsinghua University)

History (cont’d) 1997 - 2 (E1) Mbps IPLC link

1998 - 6 Mbps IPLC link, plus 4 Mbps ISP

1999 - 12 Mbps IPLC link plus 12 Mbps ISP

512 Kbps link to TANET (via HKU to

Academic Sinica of Taiwan) 2000 - 48 Mbps for ISP Internet 2001 - 72 Mbps - 2 Mbps to CERNET (via HARNET hub to

Tsinghua University)

History (cont’d) 2002 - 96 Mbps - 10 Mbps to TANET (via HARNET hub to Academia Sinica’s co-location site in HK) - 45 Mbps IPLC to Internet2 at Chicago STARTAP 2003 - 155 Mbps ISP Internet - 300 Mbps HKIX - 155 Mbps to CERNET (via HARNET hub to CERNET co-location site in HK, Feb 2004) - 45 Mbps to TANET (via HARNET hub to Academia Sinica’s co-location site in HK)

Upgrade Plan for 3rd Quarter 2004 Dual ISP links - 155 Mbps plus 155 Mbps 400 Mbps HKIX scalable to 1 Gbps 90 Mbps IPLC to Internet2

HARNET Usage Commodity Internet traffic, electronic mail, file

transfer, library catalogues, supercomputers, bulletin board services, video-conferencing, etc

TCP/IP network

Very Congested (>90% for 20 hours per week)

Over 10,000 staff and 50,000 students

Management of HARNET Managed by JUCC

Financial approval by JUCC Board of Management

Network Task Force for operational and technical issues

Video Task Force for video applications

Security Working Group

Funding Management

Substantial investment in Internet links

Mainly supported by special UGC funding and donations

Request for funding reviewed each year

Use of HARNET is free (up till now)

Charging model established since July 1996

Only usage exceeding allocation is charged

Network Management Never saturating demand for bandwidth

QoS program to regulate usage according to member institution’s bandwidth allocation

Charging is imposed on bandwidth usage above the allocation

Charge only imposed if usage is over 95%

Not possible to allocate bandwidth for urgent needs

Priority setting by individual institutions

Development Plan Upgrade Connection to Internet2

Promote application of Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies

Video Conferencing in all institutions

IPv6 and Multicast

Support Electronic Service Delivery

Certificate Authentication

Future Information Network Greater use of e-Cert and digital signatures

Video conferencing and video-on-demand

Integrating data, voice, video and web

Optical wavelength networks

Electronic signatures and forms with workflow

High performance computers

Grid Computing

Wireless LANs & wireless access to the Internet

The Value of JUCC Joint tendering exercises have yielded many

benefits to member institutions and vendors Premier in Internet development and the

administration of the .hk domain name registration… Transferred and re-delegated to a new

membership-based Corporation set up by the Hong Kong SAR Government in March 2002

Contribution recognised by the Hong Kong SAR Government

The Value of JUCC (cont’d)

Cooperative model well recognized by UGC, with success attracting funding for HARNET upgrades

Attract donations from industry for pilot projects

Gathering momentum for more participation from other organizations

JUCC member is Director of Board of Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation

HKCERT Steering Committee

JUCC Organization Lean Organization

- Director (free service)- Office (supported by HKU)- Staffing (2.5 admin staff & 1 tech staff equiv.)

Well-controlled Finance- Income:

- Contribution from members- Service fee (software, network)

- Expenses:

- Administration (staff costs, general expenses)- Software and Training

- Accounting service by PolyU of HK

Current Services Network Services

Software Licensing

Tenders

Training

Workshops and conferences

Joint off-site workshops with leading higher education institutions in Mainland China

Visiting Beijing University – Nov 2003

Future Directions (1) JUCC has laid a good foundation for inter-

institution cooperation

The network task force is concentrating on Next-Generation Internet technologies

The video task force is working on joint video conferencing among the eight universities

Seed money for future network development

HKSAR Government puts emphasis on IT development

Future Directions (2) Explore opportunities for joint software

development

Improve negotiation with vendors, regarding software and hardware pricing

Develop more inter-institutional cooperation on new technologies, training, network security, administrative applications and support

Promote exchange with sister institutions in Greater China and Asia Pacific regions

Vision: HK a leader in the use of IT

Support high-bandwidth applications

Facilitate research into new Internet technologies

Develop into Research Internet hub for Asia Pacific

Expand to be a Hong Kong wide Education Network for all the school sectors

Thank you