Alberta’s Public, Digital Resource The Quilt - 2018 Winter Member Meeting Alyssa Moore, Policy & Strategy Analyst February 7, 2018
ABOUT me Policy & Strategy Analyst ● Policy, legislative analysis & compliance ○ Telecommunications policy ○ Privacy & security ● Government relations ○ Advising ○ Facilitating opportunities ○ Advocating for our membership community ● Participating in the wider Internet community ○ American Registry for Internet Numbers [Advisory Council] ○ Internet Society Canada Chapter [Program & Events Committee) ○ CIRA (.ca) [Community Investment Program Committee & Nominating Committee] ○ City of Calgary [Smart Cities Community Team]
Cybera is one of 12 provincial and territorial network partners who, together with CANARIE, form the National Research and Education Network
Alberta Area: 255,541 mi² Population: 4 million
Alberta
Albertans Connected to Cybera 665,096 Students or Employees (Full Time Equivalent) Cybera Member Organization Breakdown
K-12 and Post-Secondary Institutions Students Connecting to Cybera
Funding & Finances
Numbers Staff: 33 Teams: 6 ● Project and Partnership Development ● Infrastructure and Tech Services ○ Network ○ Operations ○ Development ● Finance and Administration ● Communications & Policy Strategic Pillars: 4 ● CONNECT (Network) ● ENABLE (Cloud and data science) ● SHARE (Shared services) ● ADVOCATE (Policy, communications, advocacy)
Connect
Cybera Network Initiatives Network Growth and Redundancy ● ● Pilot Project ○ Dynamic Bandwidth Control ● Local Internet Exchanges
Bandwidth Increases
Internet Buying Group Price as of February 2018: $2.25/Mbps Peering Service Monthly paid service, based on FTEs at the organization: Less than 1,000 FTE — $50/month ● ● 1,001 - 10,000 FTE — $100/month ● More than 10,000 FTE — $500/month
Building Infrastructure
Pilot Projects Dynamic Bandwidth Control – SDN/NFV Research Project Provide minimum bandwidth guarantee to clients, while allowing all active ● clients in the network to fairly share any spare capacity .
Enable
Rapid Access Cloud Examples of use: ● A Minecraft world that let K-12 students simulate the life of pioneers ● Housing a social media app created by University of Calgary researchers ● Helping local animators render their films in the cloud
Data Science
Share
Firewall as a Service Inspired by hosted FW pilot ● Grant from Alberta Education ● ● Leveraging Cybera’s network and cloud expertise Openstack / KVM + FW of ● choice (Paloalto, pfSense + CIRA D-Zone combo) ● Infrastructure Self-service model Disruption of current practices? ● ( launch Q1 2018 )
K-12 Identity Federation ● Piloted with 12 school authorities from December 2015 to November 2017, funded by Alberta Education Production ready for this spring ●
ShareIT Savings for Alberta Education: $1.66 Million
Advocate
Municipal ● Van Horne Institute’s ‘Digital Futures’ events bring together rural municipalities from around the province to discuss connectivity ● Partnering with cities on network builds, and advocating for access to dark fibre & Internet Exchange Points
Provincial ● SuperNet ● Report on the State of Network Infrastructure in Alberta ● Workshops on rural broadband ● Alberta Data Analytics Exchange
National ● CRTC Interventions: ○ Wholesale fibre access ○ Basic Service Objective ○ Reseller registration obligation ● Government of Canada RFIs ● CANARIE and provincial NREN coordination
International ● American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Advisory Council ● Monitoring policy and legislation from abroad: ○ General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR in Europe) ○ Policy developments in USA
www.cybera.ca | @cybera
Thank you! cybera.ca | @cybera alyssa.moore@cybera.ca
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