Collaboration without Borders: The NREN Telepresence Community Yves - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Collaboration without Borders: The NREN Telepresence Community Yves Poppe Dir. Bus. Dev. & Strategy IP APAN Hanoi, august 2010 Collaboration session 1

Tata Group Overview � 140-year old largest private sector group � $62.5 billion in revenues, 61% of business from outside of India � 350,000 employees � Listed as 11 th Most Respected Company in the World by Forbes � Conglomerate comprising 97 operating companies � Owns global Tier 1 IP network on one of world’s most advanced and largest submarine cable network 2

Cisco TelePresence 1920 lines of Vertical Resolution (Widescreen Aspect Ratio is 16:9) 1080 lines of Horizontal Resolution 2,073,600 pixels per frame x 3 colors per pixel x 1 Byte (8 bits) per color x 30 frames per second = 1.5 Gbps per screen Compressed to 4 Mbps per uncompressed ! screen > 99% compression ratio! 3

TelePresence Applications in R&E � Distance Education and Training � Collaborative meetings between researchers and staff at different universities � Participation from a distance by guest speakers at workshops and conferences � Curriculum Expansion/Preservation - TelePresence give universities the ability to offer students courses from other institutions saving curriculum development costs - Access to instructors at other institutions may allow universities to continue offering courses in programs they might otherwise have to cut – possibly saving “endangered disciplines” 4

TelePresence Applications in R&E (con’td) � Dissertation Defense – TelePresence can be used for participation of faculty from other universities (usually required) – reducing costs and expanding the pool of potential panel members � Interviews & Recruiting – TelePresence enables distance interviewing of candidates for staff and graduate student positions � Travel time savings for university executives: – The UC San Diego Chancellor has used TelePresence to enable face to face meetings with the President of the University of California System saving valuable executive travel time and making more regular meetings possible. Beyond the obvious savings the real value add TelePresence brings here is in enabling a closer collaborative relationship 5

Internet2/NLR Cisco TelePresence Exchange US NREN Support Kansas City, MO for TelePresence CUBE-SP TelePresence (Cisco Unified Multi-point Switch Border Element) Internet2 NLR PacketNet Regional Network Campus Network UCM CUBE-ENT Regional Regional 7816 2921 Network Network Campus Network Campus Network CUBE-ENT UCM 6 CUBE-ENT 2921 7816 UCM 2921 7816

The NREN TelePresence Community � Universities worldwide are using NRENs to enable TelePresence � The Internet2/NLR Cisco TelePresence Exchange serves: - more than 100 Cisco TelePresence systems - universities in 15 U.S. states and 14 other countries � Internet2 and NLR plan to work together to further develop this exchange to expand its capabilities “As more people and institutions are on the TelePresence network, the more valuable it becomes for all members of the community.” - Grover Browning, NLR Director of Engineering and Operations. 7

The NREN TelePresence Community California State University System University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CENIC (California State R&E Network) University of Maine Cisco Center for Excellence University of Michigan Cornell University University of Missouri Duke University University of South Carolina Florida International University University of Southern California *** Fresno, CA Unified School District University of West Virginia *** Garden Grove, CA Unified School District University of Wisconsin George Mason University US National Science Foundation *** Georgia Tech University Virginia Tech Harvard University Wake Forest University Indiana University Monash University (Australia) ## Johns Hopkins University ## Powerhouse Museum (Australia) *** Long Beach, CA Unified School District Swinburne University (Australia) ## Madison Area Technical College ## University of Melbourne (Australia) ## Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University New South Wales (Australia) *** National Lambda Rail University of Southern Queensland (Australia) *** New York University (NYU) University of Queensland (Australia) *** North Carolina State University Vienna University of Economics (Austria) Oakland, CA Unified School District Universidade Candido Mendes (Brazil) Paradise Valley Unified School District University of Manitoba (Canada) Pennsylvania State University Peking University (China) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center People's University (China) ## Purdue University Zhongshan University (China) Rice University Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) *** Stanford University Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) *** Smithsonian Institution *** NATO C3 Agency (Netherlands) Towson University Stenden University (Netherlands) ## University of California, Berkeley Museu do Design e da Moda (Portugal) University of California, Irvine *** Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia) University of California, Los Angeles ## Slovak University of Technology (Slovakia) University of California, San Diego University of the Arts (United Kingdom) University of Denver *** University of Warwick (United Kingdom) *** University of Illinois Chicago *** National University Singapore (Singapore) American University of Dubai (UAE) *** 8 Most of the university systems listed above have multiple TelePresence units. *** TelePresence unit on order ## Not yet connected to an NREN TelePresence Exchange

TelePresence in Education Singapore 9

NLR & ANKABUT demonstrate the first international TelePresence call between universities over NRENs Dr. Arif al-Hammadi (centre) presenting via WebEx (left) with Steve Cunningham and JJ Jamison joining via TelePresence (right) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Pittsburgh, PA USA NLR Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) Abu Dhabi, UAE ANKABUT HH Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher 10 Education and Scientific Research (centre) in a lively debate with the “virtual” TelePresence conference participants .

Accessible Endpoints for Corporate and Academic use Telepresence Rooms Accessible via Tata’s Telepresence Exchange Corporate and R&E Tata’s Community � Tata’s private room of Public Rooms customers � 12 opened � Cisco’s customers on their Exchange � 15 to open in Q1 10 � Tata’s partners’ private � Additional 15 to open room customers by H1 10 � Intercarrier interconnect � More planned in H2 partners’ customer rooms 10 and beyond � Interconnecting NREN’s Cisco � Internal network of 600+ rooms 11 11

TelePresence Global Meeting Exchange (GMX) IT and 3rd-party Tata-managed Managed Private TelePresence Public Rooms Enterprise Net Other Partner Exchange Public Operator Rooms Arms Length Carrier Exchange Networks Tata Global Meeting Exchange Tata- Managed Public Private TelePresence Meet Me Bridge Carrier Partners GMX Extension Partners Global – Exchange POPs in Mumbai, London and NYC Open – Anyone can join the GMX no matter what network provider is providing the WAN 12

The Value of a Community � Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n 2 ) not n+1. � Metcalfe’s Law applies to the NREN TelePresence Community. Each new member represents yet another end point for a collaborative meeting and a source or destination of distance learning. � The TelePresence systems being implemented represent break through technology but the true value of the NREN TelePresence Community are the closer relationships it enables . 13

Network Reach | Leveraging Major Infrastructure Ownership TGN ‐ Northern Europe TGN ‐ Western TGN ‐ Pacific Europe TGN ‐ Atlantic TGN ‐ Pacific TGN ‐ Eurasia* TGN ‐ Intra Asia TIC OWN NEW PROJECTS • TGN ‐ Atlantic CONSORTIUM • TGN ‐ Eurasia • TGN Western Europe • SMW ‐ 3 • IMEWE • TGN Northern Europe • SMW ‐ 4 • SEACOM • TGN ‐ Pacific • SAFE/SAT ‐ 3 • WACS • TIC • APCN ‐ 2 • TGN ‐ Intra Asia 14

Public Cisco TelePresence Suites Locations Helsinki Brussels Toronto Moscow Astana London Chicago Boston Almaty Munich Paris San Francisco New Delhi Frankfurt Dubai Nagpur Santa Clara Kuwait City Hyderabad New York Hong Kong Doha Thane Los Angeles Nashik Manila Mumbai Mumbai Kuala Lumpur Goa Singapore Chennai Bangalore Our Community of Partners Sydney PLDT Starwood Johannesburg CII Cisco Taj Hotels Neotel Available Under Construction Planned 15 15

Tata Public Cisco TelePresence Suites Community � CII – Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon � Cisco – Santa Clara � Etisalat – Dubai � Neotel – Johannesburg � PLDT – Manila � Starwood – Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Brussels, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong � Taj Hotels – Mumbai, Bangalore, London, Boston � TTML – Mumbai (x4), Thane, Nasik, Nagpur, Goa 16