CIENA HELPS CANARIE SUPPORT DATA-INTENSIVE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN

What Our Customers CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s Are Saying digital infrastructure for research, education, “We were able to transition from 10G to 100G based on a minor and innovation, has deployed a super-fast reconfiguration of our hardware and software infrastructure. As a 100G network infrastructure on its backbone result, we were able to deploy our first 100G wavelength quickly and research and education network powered cost-effectively alongside our existing 10G links, with no downtime by Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform. or disruption for our users.” This new network will help Canadian Damir Pobric´ Senior Network Engineer researchers in the public and private sectors CANARIE use national and global data resources to make discoveries that drive social and economic development.

To meet the needs of increasingly data-intensive research and innovation, CANARIE has deployed Ciena’s 6500, which is equipped with third-generation WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors. The Ciena technology supports 100G data transport, enabling CANARIE to sustain the big data streams used in today’s advanced research, and fostering collaborative innovation, both in Canada and internationally. CANARIE deployed its first Ciena-powered 100G link between Montreal and , providing native 100G connectivity to the Advanced North Atlantic 100G Pilot Project (ANA-100G), the world’s first 100G trans-Atlantic link. In the near future, CANARIE will upgrade all the other major sections of its national network to 100G.

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To cope with exponential data increases in fields such as particle physics, astronomy, Challenges genomics, and neuroscience, National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have > Providing networking resources to ensure their infrastructures are ready to meet growing demands. for Canadian researchers on demand This is the case for Canada’s CANARIE, the organization that designs and delivers digital > infrastructure and drives its adoption for Canada’s research, education, and innovation Fostering collaboration on big data experiments communities. CANARIE’s national network is accessible to over a million researchers, scientists, and students at more than 1,100 Canadian institutions, including universities, > Supporting research that contributes to social and colleges, research institutes, hospitals, and government labs. Stretching from Victoria economic development in British Colombia to St John’s, Newfoundland, CANARIE connects Canada’s twelve provincial and territorial networks to each other and to 100 international peer networks > Upgrading the network to 100G in 80 countries. > Minimizing costs for Canadian taxpayers The traffic on the CANARIE IP network has been persistently rising by at least 50 percent every year. In 2012, CANARIE experienced an unprecedented 83 percent increase in Solution data volumes transported over its network from 46,149 terabytes to 84,630 terabytes. > Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with third-generation Damir Pobric´, Senior Network Engineer at CANARIE, says, “To handle exponential WaveLogic technology data growth and continue providing bandwidth to researchers on demand, we needed > 100G connectivity from Montreal to upgrade our existing 10G infrastructure to 100G. We also wanted to build a 100G to New York connection into New York to connect with the ANA-100G network, the world’s first > 100G connectivity to the 100G trans-Atlantic link for research and education, which will allow Canadians to ANA-100G trans-Atlantic link participate in international projects that require 100G transport speeds.” Benefits Solution > Bandwidth on demand for Canadian researchers CANARIE opted to upgrade its network using the 6500, which supports 88 individual 100G wavelengths, and total throughput of 8.8 terabits per second on a single strand of > Support for big data streams from leading-edge experiments optical fiber. Each 100G link is capable of transporting the data equivalent of a two-hour around the world HD movie in just four tenths of a second. > Super-fast connections to “The 100G capacity allows researchers to share vast datasets very quickly and is scalable Europe via ANA-1ooG enough to meet growing bandwidth needs for years to come,” says Pobric´. > Cost-effective 100G, with only minor hardware and software CANARIE deployed its first 100G wavelength on the 6500 in a major section of its reconfiguration network that connects Chicago, Toronto, , Montreal, and New York, and is > now preparing other major sections of its national network for 100G transport speeds. Scalability to 400G and beyond “We are currently going through the same low-touch upgrade process across our entire > Software-Defined Networking network, which will allow us to deploy several more 100G wavelengths by mid-2014.” (SDN) capabilities

> Strong partnership with Ciena Benefits By upgrading its network to 100G with the 6500, CANARIE is enabling Canadian researchers to access remote big data and collaborate with international colleagues and partners in real time. Researchers can quickly access big data from leading projects such as the Large Hadron Collider, as well as from a range of other national and international research projects.

In particular, native 100G connectivity to the ANA-100G infrastructure will help researchers collaborate more effectively with colleagues internationally. ANA-100G, which was built as a joint venture by six major NRENs including CANARIE, will enable Canadian researchers to take advantage of super-fast connections between North America and Europe, with big data transfers between the continents taking just minutes instead of hours.

2 Ciena technology has helped CANARIE upgrade its network cost-effectively. “We were About the Client able to transition from 10G to 100G based on a minor reconfiguration of our hardware CANARIE designs and delivers and software infrastructure,” says Pobric´. “As a result, we were able to deploy our first digital infrastructure, and drives 100G wavelength quickly and cost-effectively alongside our existing 10G links, with no its adoption for Canada’s downtime or disruption for our users.” research, education, and innovation communities. Ciena has demonstrated its commitment to partnership with CANARIE at a number CANARIE keeps Canada at the of high-profile conferences and events. At the TERENA Networking Conference in forefront of digital research and 2013, participants were able to control a robot arm while simultaneously controlling innovation, fundamental to a an identical remote robot arm located miles away at another global location. vibrant digital economy. The experiment was filmed, and ultra-high-definition video streams were broadcast CANARIE’s roots are in advanced to the event venue and kept in sync with Ciena’s native video transport technology. networking, and CANARIE continues to evolve the national CANARIE’s deployment of Ciena’s advanced networking technologies contributes to the ultra-high-speed backbone ongoing evolution of Canada’s knowledge economy. Kathryn Anthonisen, vice president network that enables data- of External Relations at CANARIE, says, “We partner with private sector technology intensive, leading-edge research and big science across Canada companies to build the infrastructures that support today’s most cutting-edge and and around the world. One data-intensive research and innovation. Our job is to ensure that researchers can access million researchers, scientists, the data and tools they need to create new knowledge that improves the economic and and students at over 1,100 social well-being of Canadians.” Canadian institutions, including universities, colleges, research institutes, hospitals, and Ciena may from time to time make changes to the products or specifications contained herein without notice. Copyright © 2014 Ciena® Corporation. government laboratories have All rights reserved. CS078 3.2014 access to the CANARIE network. CANARIE also leads the development of research software tools that enable researchers to more quickly and easily access research data, tools, and peers. In support of Canada’s high-tech entrepreneurs, CANARIE offers cloud computing services to help them accelerate product development and gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. Twelve provincial and territorial networks, together with CANARIE, collectively form Canada’s National Research and Education Network (NREN). This powerful digital infrastructure connects Canadians to national and global data, tools, colleagues, and classrooms that fuel the engine of innovation in today’s knowledge economy. Established in 1993, CANARIE is a non-profit corporation, with the major investment in its programs and activities provided by the .

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