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The Future isn’t what it used to be 1 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore What APAN’s future looked like in 1996 Concept APEC Symposium for Realizing the Information Society, Tsukuba, Japan, first draft: proposed to interconnect the regional high-speed testbeds … at the rate of the fastest testbeds to form the Asia/Pacific High Speed Network testbed additional opportunity to establish a bridge from USA to Asia Pacific Testbed through NSF … 2 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore What APAN’s future looked like in 1996 Network Establishment of an Asia-Pacific Network (APAN) broadband network that could: develop Asia-Pacific hubs interconnect national broadband test beds in the region interconnect national research networks in the region support international collaboration between groups in the region that requires connectivity of this speed allow coordinated involvement of the region in GIBN contribute to the development of an Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure as part of a Global Information Infrastructure support connectivity at lower speeds for developing countries 3 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore What APAN’s future looked like in 1996 Application Technologies “There are various application technologies that could form the basis of regional collaboration that would require a broadband network, e.g.: 4 Remote virtual reality (telepresence) Tele-collaborative environments (colaboratories) Remote access to specialized equipment and facilities Multimedia Data access and data fusion” 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore What APAN’s future looked like in 1996 Application Areas “These in turn could be applied to problems in the following application areas: 5 Medicine (telemedicine) Distance education (virtual university/institute) Remote sensing data Environment Weather Mining Infrastructure development Agriculture and Fishing” 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore What APAN’s future looked like in 1996 Data, Storage, Visualisation Data Will: be stored in different places be gathered from different kinds of remote satellite sensors (e.g. photometric, radar infrared, etc.) require terabytes and eventually petabytes of massive storage using advanced database techniques be subject to various levels of pre-processing require high performance computing systems, sophisticated visualization techniques (e.g. 3D, VR, etc.) and constantly changing analytical tools for its processing comprise files >1GB in size comprise long time-series of data” 6 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Global Networking in 1996 Europe - TEN-34 (pre-GEANT) North America - NSFnet (pre Abilene and CANet) Asia-Pacific connectivity almost entirely US-centric Global interconnects rudimentary 7 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Structure of a Global Information Infrastructure 1996 8 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Asia-Pacific Connectivity - 1996 9 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Asia-Pacific Connectivity - 2003 10 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore TEIN2 today 11 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore TEIN2 today 12 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Enormous strides in recent times Start of a pan-Asian Network Much less US centric “This year will mark the first time that intra-Asian bandwidth usage has significantly outpaced trans-Pacific capacity. “ Telegeography, 21 July 2006 Massively reduced latency Societal Benefit in addition to vastly improved infrastructure to enhance global collaboration But are we getting the message across to those that could most benefit? Are we helping enough for researchers and other potential users get the most benefit? 13 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Telepresence on advanced networks “As good as being there” Relies on good Bandwidth Quality of service Latency (delay) Supported by Human Factors and Computer Human Interaction research 14 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Network Technology/Science interface In many cases the network is no longer the constraint on throughput – but do the users know? Improving interaction in disciplines with high-end requirements between network technologists, end-to-end performance specialists and scientists (HEP, radioastronomy) Is that scalable? Is that enough? Who else needs to be involved? Discipline/application specific? Interactive multimedia….. 15 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore 16 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Emerging directions – Telepresence (i) Complex information spaces, such as multidimensional medical images Support for delivery of complex procedures over a distance Surgery, Emergency medicine Synchronous interaction rather than “store & forward” Not just telehealth……. 17 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Telepresence - continued Support of multisensoral working High resolution video Stereoscopic video Stereophonic sound Immersive vision for high situation awareness Haptic (force) feedback for interaction with tissue (differing views) 18 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Disruptive Technologies and impact SMS Blackberry iPod In-flight internet access The wireless environment Examples if there is time 19 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Today’s Future and the challenges ahead The pace of change is increasing Generational challenges Keeping pace with our communities, engagement and mutual understanding 20 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore Governance of APAN APAN is still very much a volunteer organisation It doesn’t have the financial backing of it’s counterparts in Europe or North America APAN is an organisation of “good intent”, with good will and collegiate spirit But with the pace of change, new environment, new demands and requirements we need to ensure our structure and processes are robust while still remaining an “Organisation of Good Intent” 21 22nd APAN Meeting, Singapore