HEAnet Conference - 2014
Chief Executive’s
Strategic Updates
John Boland
Agenda
• Strategy & Organisational Changes
• Shared Services Developments
• IaaS / Cloud Developments
• Future Proofing the Network Capability
• Schools Broadband Milestones
HEAnet Strategy &
Organisation Changes
Strategic Plan 2014-2016
To realise Ireland's Education and Research Goals
in partnership with our clients
Strategic Plan 2014-2016
Continue to be the trusted provider of networking and infrastructure services Be the preferred broker of cloud and other services to our clients
Be the link that facilitates clients to collaborate on innovative solutions
NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM APPLICATION SERVICES BROKERAGE
Layer 2/IP (RMAN) Equipment Upgrade Planning Schools 100Mb Roll-Out Completion
Backbone Optical Layer Completion EduStorage Expansion
Carriganore High-Power Data Centre IaaS Proof-of-Concept
High-Availability Managed Moodle UCD Webhosting Solution
Vidyo Desktop Conferencing Service
Student Mobile Broadband Deal (with Meteor)
IReL – Irish Research e-Library
Edugate – Standby IdP/Managed IdP/Hosted IdP
Organisation Structure
Developments
New Managed Network Services Structure
Data Centre Colocation Eduroam IaaS Service Development EduStorage Web Hosting Hot Standby Security services System administration Events Streaming Video Conferencing (Desktop, MCU, ISDN, MCU, JVCS) Media Hosting FileSender In house software development & quality assurance Internal Phone system System & repository administration Managed Network Services Brian Boyle Infrastructure Team Orla McGann Hosting Team Aidan Carty Multimedia Team Justin Hourigan Software Dev Team Brian McArdle
Brokerage Structure
Contract Management Edugate Federation IReL Electonic Resources Services BrokerageNew Brokerage Structure
CTO Ronan Byrne Middleware (Edugate) Glenn Wearen Contract Management Garvan McFeeley IReL Rita Panhasi Services Brokerage (Saas / IaaS) (Virtual Team) Garvan McFeeley Robert Hackett Ronan Byrne15 20 25 30 35 40
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Total Live Agreements
New Client Collaboration Role
• We are appointing a Client Collaboration & Delivery
Manager
• This role will report to the Head of Infrastructure and
will be a member of the HEAnet Management Team.
• The fundamental objective of this role is to ensure
that HEAnet is delivering services that support the
business of our clients.
Shared Services
Developments
Shared Services: IReL
• IReL – “Irish Research eLibrary” is a nationally funded
electronic research library, initially conceived to
support researchers in Biotechnology and Information
Technology in mid-summer 2004 (STM phase),
• Following on the success of the STM phase, IReL
expanded in 2006 to support research in the
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS phase).
• IReL was managed from UCD until Spring of 2014, and
came under the HEAnet umbrella in April 2014.
IReL Usage Trend 2007-13
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Millions E-journals E-Book DatabaseShared Services: An Chéim
• An Chéim
• New Approach
-• Establishment of new subsidiary company –
eduCampus Services Ltd
• Memorandum and Articles of Association agreed
by board of HEAnet & An Chéim Board, HEA and
DIT.
• Transition Management to New company
• Next Steps
Shared Services
Waterford Data Centre
• HEAnet hosts ICHEC’s ‘Fionn’
Supercomputer
• 10 Cabinets with high-power
capacity of between 10 and 30kW per cab
• 10Gb connectivity from the
Data centre to HEAnet’s core network
IaaS / Cloud
Developments
HEAnet Cloud - Benefits to Clients
• Utility Computing - servers on demand, no procurement, pay
as you go, no CAPEX
• Compute power without the hassle of infrastructure • Ability to control costs in public clouds
• Simpler / transparent cost model vs public cloud providers • Help clients figure out where the cloud fits – what usecases
POC - Project Status Update
Next
• POC Open - early 2015 for
approx 9 months
• Edugate / Edustorage
integration
• Client onboarding and creating
VMs , testing usecases
HEAnet Cloud – Working Title
Cloud / Compute Infrastructure For Education Research and AcademiaMoodle as a Service
• A resilient, geographically distributed web
platform that is scalable for network, compute
and storage capacity;
• Built on virtual machines running Ubuntu Linux
and utilising our EduStorage SANs;
• SLA of 99.95% availability;
Expanded Web Hosting
• Self-managed Client Portal for hosting small
to medium websites;
• Clients can create and manage Databases,
Applications (Drupal, Wordpress, MediaWiki
etc.) all at the click of a button;
• Access can be provided to other stakeholders
(including 3
rdparty developers) with varying
Future Proofing the
Network Capability
Optical National Backbone
Replacement
and
Replacement MAN Project
RMAN Project
• This project is essential for the future of the network
for the next 10 years.
• The existing metro equipment is nearing end of life.
Over 10 years old and possibly 12 by the time we finish
the project.
• We are seeking €5 Million infrastructure funding from
the HEA for this project.
• Project has been approved by the HEA – for
presentation to DES , we need to make this happen in
2015-2017.
Current and proposed architecture
Item Current Proposed
Number of devices 260 180 Client facing interfaces 315 140 Operation tools 10 6 Services 1 + 2 5 Optical Optical Optical L2/MPLS L2/MPLS L2/MPLS IP IP IP Optical Optical Optical IP/MPLS IP/MPLS IP/MPLS Current Proposed
Schools Broadband
Delivery
Schools 100 Mbit/s
• Rolling out 100Mbit/s broadband connections to every
post-primary school - on behalf of DCENR & DES.
• HEAnet manage the core network & security services as
well as project-managing the procurement process.
• Fibre & wireless links are provided by: enet, Airspeed,
Digiweb, eircom, Vodafone, UPC & Imagine.
• Installation & support services are provided by Agile
Networks.
• The project is now completed with connections delivered to
over 800 post-primary school locations
• HEAnet have delivered this programme on behalf of the
Schools 100 Mbit/s
• Connecting schools to HEAnet serves to leverage the public
investment in the HEAnet education and research network to date.
• In leveraging this investment, HEAnet are very grateful to
those Higher Education Institutes that are facilitating access to their campus locations
• thus enabling delivery of cost-effective backhaul to schools
from regional areas.
• National transit of schools traffic is also being facilitated by
ESB Telecoms which underpins a significant portion of the HEAnet backbone.
International
• 30 Gb Geant connectivity for HEAnet
– Cross-border fibre thru Janet
Capability to upgrade to 100Gb
– Commercial provider – 10Gb wavelength
• Geant Association being formed
– Dante & Terena merged into new org
New Board New CEO
Two Approaches
Reporting Analysis and model development Information gathering Qualitative and Quantitative Report HEAnet Client Perspective Funding Bodies Perspective Tasks Qualitative and Quantitative ReportHEAnet
www.heanet.ie
Improved user experience
– Navigation
– Search engine
– Prioritised contact information
Compatible with mobile devices
Main content divided into 4 Sections
– Network – Services – Projects – Schools
Governance Review
• In keeping with Good Governance practice
– Mazars were appointed to undertake Governance Review
• Mazars noted that HEAnet had good governance practices in
place
• some improvements required to ensure adequate renewal of
Board composition and to facilitate risk management.
• Also improvements required around documentation
– to document governance processes already in existence or to
Delivery Highlights 2014
• 100Gig Capable Optical Backbone in place
• Planning of Layer2/IP Equipment replacement underway
(RMAN Project)
• Primary connections typically 100% available • All Post-Primary Schools @ 100Mb
• HEAnet Leading NREN in Cloud Developments
• HEAnet now hosting Moodle for DCU, WIT & Mary Immaculate • HEAnet now hosting UCD’s full website suite
• Edugate now peaking above 100,000 log-ins daily • IReL merged into HEAnet from 1 April 2014
