1. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNet 3 George McLaughlin Director, International Developments

2. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Background AARNet Pty Ltd (APL) is a not for profit company owned by 37 Australian Universities and CSIRO Operates a national network providing commodity and research Internet access to members (owners) and other clients (institutions that collaborate with members) Current network 6 years old, based on ATM mesh between state and territory networks (RNOs)

3. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Work in Progress APL is currently designing a new network for deployment in January 2004 Design largely complete Commercial negotiations still in progress Deployment yet to come

4. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Basic Design Dual SDH unprotected links from Brisbane to Perth Dual Points of Presence in each capital city along path Using MPLS Fast Failover for “protection” Burst capacity 2x “protected” link capacity Supports IPv4 and IPv6 (unicast & multicast) Supports QoS (diffserv) Uses MPLS-TE to minimise latency for Voice/Video over IP (and potentially other real time applications) Customers connect via Gigabit Ethernet

5. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Australia’s Research and Education Networks

6. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Australia’s Research and Education Networks AARNet3 GrangeNet CeNTIE AARNet/Powerlink North Queensland Network AARNet/TrandGrid Central NSW Network

7. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Services Basic transport of IP packets Customers use precedence tagging on a packet to change QoS, both premium (up) and scavenger (down) Premium service used primarily for Voice/Video over IP applications, e.g. toll bypass & video conferencing Voice implemented like an extended PABX APL provides MCU in support of Video over IP Rapid growth in deployment of Access Grids

8. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Services Advanced Communications Services Specialised, Regional and International Networks User Communities Backbone Network Health Bio- informatics Earth and Environmental Sciences etc Feeder Networks etc Education Internet2 Canarie APAN Feeder Networks Next Generation Network/GRID Structures User Communities of Interest

9. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Concepts “Resource sharing & coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organisations” (Ian Foster) –On-demand, ubiquitous access to computing, data, and services –New capabilities constructed dynamically and transparently from distributed services “When the network is as fast as the computer's internal links, the machine disintegrates across the net into a set of special purpose appliances” (George Gilder)

10. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Cyberinfrastructure NSF - pf - 8/02 Software High-speed Network Connectivity Computation People and Training Large Databases and Libraries Instrumentation (large and/or many small Cyberinfrastructur e Courtesy: Dr. Peter Freeman Assistant Director, CISE, NSF

11. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Interactions Visualisation Display Computation People Datasets and Libraries Instrumentation (large and/or many small People Datasets and Libraries Computation People Computation Datasets and Libraries Instrumentation (large and/or many small Access Grid Compute Grid Data Grid Visualisation Grid Remote Instruments Grid Network Links

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13. AARNET’s current and planned Pacific Rim links

14. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNET’s international connections

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