Transcript CS 60-520 Seminar Todd Sands, Ph.D January 30, 2004

CS 60-520 Seminar
Todd Sands, Ph.D
January 30, 2004
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Change is Inevitable!
“It is not the strongest of the species
that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the ones most responsive to
change.”
-- Charles Darwin
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What is a “Smart Community” ?
“Smart communities are where leaders and
stakeholders have formed alliances and
partnerships to develop innovative ways to
extract new economic and social value
from electronic networks and the public
Internet.”
Industry Canada
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Putting Together Our
“Smart Community” Puzzle
Four Key Components:
1. Smart Organizations
2. Smart Infrastructure
3. Smart Applications
4. Smart Access
 Difficult to separate any of the four key pieces
 Difficult to sustain in isolation
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Identity and Mission
...a
consortium of health, education,
and municipal stakeholders . . .
. . .working together. . .
. . .to create a SMART community-based and regional
platform for the development and use of advanced &
secure electronic technologies, products and services. . .
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How it Works!
 Community collaboration, vision,
governance . . .Yes, all those things!
 Not-for-profit, R & D, joint venture with
contractual obligation, multi-party
agreements – service contracts,
governance documents, SLE, etc.,
 Assists in the competition for services for
the purposes of enhancing those
services, not to eliminate the market share
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Evolving Governance Model
 Participation Agreement
 Joint Venture with Contractural Obligation
 Member site connectivity (local loop – OC3 or copper/wireless)
 Memorandum of Understanding
 Network Management (core to customer side of edge)
 Management Services Contract
 Internet (60 Mb and fully scalable)
 Carrier Services Contract - TELUS
 Ontario Ministry Contracts – TAP Program contracts & Connect Ontario
 Industry Canada CA*net GigaPoP Access (for R & D)
 CANARIE Statement of Work (jointly) and with AT&T
 Software Licencing Contracts – IBM/Lotus Notes Licensing
 Project funding Contracts– HRDC & various application activities
 Information Toolkit Project for other Communities to Gauge Readiness
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What has WEDnet Help e-Enabled?
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Electronic reserves library project - WERLnet
Healthcare network - patient care maps – WRCC
Network solution + document imaging- Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital
Windsor Regional Hospital - network solution + ADT system
GECBSB - (WPB/ECBE) Project labs for student integrated learning
WECDSB - (WSSB/ECSSB) Project labs for student integrated learning
St. Clair College Manufacturing Design Facility
St. Clair College intercampus project to connect remote campuses
University backbone network upgrades & high tech labs – VoD delivery
University Multimedia Learning and Language Laboratory
Real-time H.320 and H.323 videoconferencing among partners
Information kiosks - City of Windsor + on-line services
Connecting Windsor-Essex for Connect Ontario/GeoSmart
Support for Windsor Essex Geomatics Consortium (WEGC)
Virtual Tourism Project with virtual tours on-line
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ORION’s Infrastructure brings Wave Division Multiplexing
for Windsor and Essex County
with direct connection to Larg*net in London, ON
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“FROM A COMMUNITY
OF NEIGHBOURHOODS TO
A NEIGHBOURHOOD
COMMUNITY IN
THE GLOBAL VILLAGE”
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Relative Construction Costs
Cost per kilometre
$500,000
$400,000
$300,000
$200,000
$100,000
$0
road
water
gas
electricity
fibre optics
coax
copper
wireless
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Infrastructure & Applications (Key)
 Expansion of Regional Advanced Network
 Fibre Optic PoP in each municipality
 Ease rural/urban dichotomy of level of service
 Improved infrastructure to library systems & schools
 Connect Ontario Applications:
 Community Connector – portal (3 - I’s)
 e-Government/e-Commerce
 Virtual Tourism
 GeoSmart Applications:
 Directory & Services Locator
 Emergency Services Routing
 Tourist Routing
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Videoconferencing
H.323-H.320-H.321
ATM
H.321
FVC CTM
V-GATE
IP
Polycom IP
H.323
ISDN
Desktop
H.320
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Web Conferencing – Multipoint video, audio, text chat, data collaboration from inside
Internet Explorer – No standalone application required!
User Defined Screen Layout
Users can also push a
URL in the data
window to others
inside the conference.
Public/Private Chat
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The Importance of Geospatial References for Conveying Information
Geographic Information Systems
have the potential to respond to
questions best answered by a
calculated and visual presentation
of information
Locations, use, best routes,
scatter and correlative
reference statistics
For massive amounts
data. . .
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VU is a configurable visualization
software tool for the display and
analysis of numerical solutions.
Immersive
Modelling
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Where is e-Enablement Going for Us?
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Link WEDnet to Ontario on ORION’s OC192 backbone
Interface DWDM backbone to the existing RAN
Higher-end router interfaces (Cisco GSR & 7606 layer 3)
Minimum switch interface GbE or OC12 to each member
20 year fibre IRU for access by members
– 1. equity fibre
– 2. condo access
• Install government INP interface with WEDnet as a pilot
CBN to demonstrate to others the success of the
investments
• Enable BGP6 Network peering, IPv6, multicast
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Help network Ontario’s networking through
programs such as Connect Ontario and GeoSmart
(Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation,
and MNR) and in cooperation with organizations
such as . . .
. . . and through its strategic alliances with MISA and others
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Advanced Networking of People and
Equipment
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How ORION connects to national backbone
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How ORION connects to R&E networks
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• ORION represents a new and exciting era of growth for
research and discovery in our province.
• Will enable collaborative research, R&D, and education
projects and activities across Ontario.
• ORION connects users to each other, and to CA*net4,
Internet2 and other R&E networks around the world.
• Operational today between:
Thunder Bay – Toronto
Ottawa – Toronto – London
Toronto - Hamilton
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Planned Uses
• Once fully deployed, ORION will allow:
- broad range of e-learning opportunities;
- virtual classrooms and laboratories;
- complex multimedia-based interactivity;
- real-time collaborative research;
- shared and ready access to large genomic and
biotech data bases; and
- grid computing and large scale computing
resources.
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Examples ...
• Digital resources and databases
Users will gain access to digital resources and
databases, ie. Ontario Digital Library; the Ontario
Bibliocentre, the UofT Library, as well as genomics
databases for genome and DNA analysis and mapping,
etc.
• E-health applications
ORION will provide critical connectivity for the new
Northern Medical School (Sudbury and Thunder Bay and
other locations), to enable delivery of services. The
Ontario Cancer Research Centre will be able to utilize
ORION to help transmit terrabits of research data to
researchers around the world.
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Examples ...
• Advanced video conferencing
Lakehead University will build a multi-purpose cyberport to provide
virtual and simulated environments with the National Research
Centre’s virtual classroom project. ORION will allow collaborative
teaching in a joint venture between the University of Guelph and
Humber College to offer both a university degree and a college
diploma to every graduate in four years of study.
• Advanced and grid computing
The SHARCNET project (Guelph, McMaster and Western are
connected today) will use ORION to enable collaboration of computing
clusters used by researchers in science, engineering, business and
social sciences. ORION could bring new partners to Queen’s
University’s High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)
and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
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Examples ...
• E-Learning
ORION connection is key to the York Learning
Community Advanced Learning Project, which
encompasses both research and development in the
area of advanced learning.
• Administrative efficiencies
A college expects that ORION could allow outsourcing of
administrative computing to another Ontario college to
reduce administrative costs. ORION will facilitate interinstitutional shared resources such as the TRELLIS, the
Guelph-Waterloo-Laurier library system and the TriUniversity Data Resource Centre.
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Moving Ahead
• Our main challenge in the next few
months is to help users and potential
members to make the transition to a new
advanced network-enabled environment.
• This will take some time as we all learn
how to best take advantage of this new
and powerful resource.
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For more information:
http://www.wednet.on.ca
http://www.windsor-essex.info
Email: [email protected]
Todd Sands, Ph.D, Exec. Director
[email protected]
Other sites of interest:
http://www.orion.on.ca
http://www.RNO.on.ca
http://www.canarie.ca
http://www.c3.ca
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