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Alberta’s Public, Digital Resource
The Quilt - 2018 Winter Member Meeting
Alyssa Moore, Policy & Strategy AnalystFebruary 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 mi²Population: 4 million
Alberta
Albertans Connected to Cybera
Cybera Member Organization Breakdown
665,096Students or Employees (Full Time Equivalent)
K-12 and Post-Secondary Institutions Students Connecting to Cybera
Funding & Finances
Staff: 33Teams: 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)
Numbers
Connect
Cybera Network Initiatives
● Network Growth and Redundancy
● Pilot Project○ Dynamic Bandwidth Control
● Local Internet Exchanges
Bandwidth Increases
Internet Buying Group
Peering Service
Price as of February 2018: $2.25/Mbps
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 ProjectsDynamic 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)
● Piloted with 12 school authorities from December 2015 to November 2017, funded by Alberta Education
● Production ready for this spring
K-12 Identity Federation
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