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HEAnet Presentation toInternet2 International Task Force
John Boland, HEAnet Chief Executive
Monday, October30th, 2000
Outline of Presentation
Irish NRN Background Current Climate HEAnet NGI ProposalsProjects and ActivitiesHEAnet’s Challenges
Irish Telecomms Climate (and Bill Gates !)
Deregulation and CompetitionAggressive E-commerce
legislationBill Gates’ contributionGovernment underwrites Global
Crossing Transatlantic Cable360Networks direct US/IrelandInternet access costs slashed
Telecomms Climate continued
Spare Capacity to the US and 24 European cities
Benefits starting to flow..UUnet Backbone extended to
Dublin MIT Media Lab Worldport , IBM, ASPs ….
HEAnet - Ireland’s NREN
1983 - TCD and UCDfrom X.25 to a private IP network1987 from Co-operative to Limited
Not-for-Profit CompanyBoard of DirectorsAnnual BudgetPublic Procurement Policy
Members of HEAnet
7 UniversitiesDublin Institute of Technology 13 Institutes of TechnologyTipperary Rural Business
Development InstituteGovernment Research
Organisations MIT Media Labs ? Schools ? …..
The Services
Internet Services for the community
Direct Connections to the US, Europe, UK and the WorldWide Internet
Hosted Databases- Web of Science, Security seminars ...
Now Mission Critical services...
HEAnet: Ten-155 Traffic
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HEAnet: US Traffic
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Next generation of Ireland’s Internet
BackgroundGovernment PolicyTwo-stranded approach
Connecting to Internet2 and GeantIdentifying the Collaboration
opportunities A Vital Rôle in developing the Irish
Information Society
Summary of Activities
Negotiating Global Crossing STM-1 capacity to US and Europe
Tenders underway for equipment and backhauls
Plan for major Upgrade of national backbone
Projects seeking partners in Internet2
Dublin City University Multimedia Information Retrieval Research Groupcontent-based navigation on digital
video informationintelligent dispatcher for access to
Digital Librariesvideo collaboration with N. America on
taught coursescollaboration with Santa Fe Institute
Projects continued..
Trinity College Dublin BiochemistryAccess to marine algal species
information by CSIMimage and distribute bio-diversity
information over Internet2Biomedical Computing Collaborations
with Washington, Minnesota and Minneapolis Universities
Pilots underway
US National Library of Medicine and Trinity College Dublin World Leading Telemedicine
Supercomputer Project Trinity and Queen’s University Belfast
Irish Computational GridDeveloping a Strategy for Video
ServicesTERENA Task Force on QoS/E2E
The Challenges
Putting the Bandwidth in place for Q1 2001to Internet2 networks, CA*net3,
Singaren ...to Geant
Stimulating the ApplicationsUS and European inter-workingInternet2 E&R collaborations
Funding advanced applications
Further Information :
www.heanet.ie
john.boland@heanet.ie
victor.reijs@heanet.ie