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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!
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