The Network in 2030 - UCISA Network Futures

Martin Hamilton & Jeremy Sharp, Jisc

The Network in 2030UCISA Network Futures

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January2015

21/01/2015 UCISA Network Futures - The Network in 2030 1

Themes


1. Back to the future

2. Trends and signifiers

3. Prototype to production

4. IT as Innovation in Technology


Themes







Back to the future

Hands up if you remember:

› SERCNET, X.25 PADs

› nfsnet-relay

› Coloured Books, NRS

› PP & QUIPU

› JIPS/Shoestring

– UKNOF Internet History Project:http://www.uknof.org.uk/history.html


http://www.uknof.org.uk/history.html

Back to the future

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Hands up if you remember:

› Vampire Taps

› DIY thin ethernet using TVcoax cabling

› Trumpet WinSock

› Mosaic

› Archie, Gopher, WAIS, …

› WaveLAN


Back to the future

Consolidation post Y2K:– Gigabit Ethernet (then 10GigE)– Structured cabling– IP telephony– Wireless goes mainstream– Student residences– eduroam– Support via LAN/MAN, SRIF

› The network (LAN and WAN) is now“mission critical” for everyone

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Themes







Trends and signifiers



Shared data centre:

› £900K HEFCE investment

› Anchor tenants: Crick, KCL, LSE, QMUL, Sanger, UCL– www.jisc.ac.uk/shared-data-centre


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/shared-data-centre


Amazon cloud portal:› Monthly invoicing - credit cards are no

longer required for payment

› Itemized billing - consolidated across users/departments

› Billing in GBP, not dollars

› Setting of budget limits for individual user accounts or departments

› The retrieval of service usage information within own areas of responsibility

› Volume-discounts through aggregation across multiple educational institutions


www.ja.net/amazon

https://www.ja.net/amazon


Moonshot:› Single, unifying technology that enables

you to effectively manage and control access to a wide range of web and non-web services and applications.

› These include cloud infrastructures, High Performance Computing, Grid Computing and commonly deployed services such as email, file store, remote access and instant messaging

– www.ja.net/moonshot


http://www.ja.net/moonshot


Reach:› £4M funding from BIS to work

towards a Janet which is "open and accessible" to industry

› Provides industry access to university e-infrastructure facilities to facilitate further investment in science, engineering and technology with the active participation of business and industry

› Modelled on Innovate UK competition process


www.ja.net/janet-reach

http://www.ja.net/janet-reach


Safe share:› Encrypted VPN infrastructure between

organisations

› Providing enhanced confidentiality and integrity per ISO27001

› Requirement to move electronic health data securely and support research collaboration

› Working with biomedical researchers at Farr Institute, MRC Medical Bioinformatics initiative, ESRC Administrative Data Centres



Equipment sharing:› Brokered industry access to £60m

public investment in HPC

› Working with EPSRC to pilot theKit-Catalogue software, sharingdetails of 10,000 items of highvalue equipment

› Newcastle University alone issharing £16m+ of >£20K valueequipment


Photo credit: HPC Midlands

www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/equipment-sharing-made-easy

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/equipment-sharing-made-easy


Conclusions:

› Growing emphasis on what the network enables

› Sharing facilities to reduce the friction of collaboration– And achieve operating efficiencies

› Astronomical volumes of data – LHC, SKA, 100,000 Genomes

› Joining the dots across the R&D landscape – Catapults,industrial connectivity, industry access to e-Infrastructure

› But is the network itself a “done deal” or is there a period of further rapid evolution to come?



Conclusions:

› Growing emphasis on what the network enables

› Sharing facilities to reduce the friction of collaboration– And achieve operating efficiencies

› Astronomical volumes of data – LHC, SKA, 100,000 Genomes

› Joining the dots across the R&D landscape – Catapults,industrial connectivity, industry access to e-Infrastructure

› But is the network itself a “done deal” or is there a period of further rapid evolution to come?


Themes







Prototype to production





Example: Autonomous Vehicles

› Capability:– Do we have it in house?

– If not: build, buy or broker?

– New model or updated? Retrofit?

› Capacity:– Can we do it at scale?

– How do we respond to changes in demand?

› Sector specific:– Shift from buying cars to renting them

Photo CC BY-NC-SA Flickr user traftery

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Example: 5G communications

› From Samsung, China Mobile and Huawei:– 50Gbit/s peak

– 1Gbit/s generally

– Speeds up to 500km/hr

– Millisecond latency

› Underpinning technology– mmWave based?

– Massive MIMO arrays?

– Software defined networking / radios?

– New generation of backplanes?

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Example: 5G trends (projected)

› Bandwidth:

– From streaming Despicable Me 5 in 8K

– To smart sensors in street furniture

› Latency:

– From Call of Duty 12 on HS2

– To tracking your next Amazon Drone delivery

› Massification:– From 90,000 FA Cup Vines

– To a telepresence session with two rooms

Photo CC BY Flickr user mariusb

Photo credit: CC BY-NC Flickr user willrich



Coming up in today’s session:

› Design considerations for Terabit networking

› Internet of Things – from connected homes to connected institutions?

› Public wifi – eduroam everywhere?

› New paradigms – driven by shared services and cross sector collaborations

› Software Defined Networking and Network FunctionVirtualization – no more baked in silicon?


Themes







IT as Innovation in Technology

IT == Innovation in Technology

› Conventional wisdom: IT as a cost centre– Is that how Tesco and Amazon see it?

› Can you be replaced with a robot?– Or an outsourcerer / shared service / SaaS / …

› What do (or can) you do that gives yourinstitution a unique advantage?– May not be what you are doing now

› Are we actually entering a new golden age?– Discuss!


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