University of Windsor © 2004 CS 60-520 Seminar Todd Sands, Ph.D January 30, 2004

University of Windsor © 2004

CS 60-520 Seminar Todd Sands, Ph.DJanuary 30, 2004


Change is Inevitable!

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,

but the ones most responsive to change.”

-- Charles Darwin


What is a “Smart Community” ?

“Smart communities are where leaders and stakeholders have formed alliances and partnerships to develop innovative ways to extract new economic and social value from electronic networks and the public Internet.”

Industry Canada


Putting Together Our“Smart Community” Puzzle

Four Key Components:

1. Smart Organizations

2. Smart Infrastructure

3. Smart Applications

4. Smart Access

Difficult to separate any of the four key pieces

Difficult to sustain in isolation


Identity and MissionIdentity and Mission

. . .. . . a consortium of health, education, a consortium of health, education,

and municipal stakeholders . . .and municipal stakeholders . . .

. . .. . .workingworking togethertogether. . .. . .

. . .to create a SMART community-based and regional . . .to create a SMART community-based and regional platform for the development and use of advanced & platform for the development and use of advanced &

secure electronic technologies, products and services. . .secure electronic technologies, products and services. . .


How it Works!How it Works!

Community collaboration, vision, governance . . .Yes, all those things!

Not-for-profit, R & D, joint venture with contractual obligation, multi-party agreements – service contracts, governance documents, SLE, etc.,

Assists in the competition for services for the purposes of enhancing those services, not to eliminate the market share


Evolving Governance Model

Participation Agreement Joint Venture with Contractural Obligation

Member site connectivity (local loop – OC3 or copper/wireless) Memorandum of Understanding

Network Management (core to customer side of edge) Management Services Contract

Internet (60 Mb and fully scalable) Carrier Services Contract - TELUS

Ontario Ministry Contracts – TAP Program contracts & Connect Ontario Industry Canada CA*net GigaPoP Access (for R & D)

CANARIE Statement of Work (jointly) and with AT&T Software Licencing Contracts – IBM/Lotus Notes Licensing Project funding Contracts– HRDC & various application activities

Information Toolkit Project for other Communities to Gauge Readiness


What has WEDnet Help e-Enabled?

Electronic reserves library project - WERLnet Healthcare network - patient care maps – WRCC Network solution + document imaging- Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital Windsor Regional Hospital - network solution + ADT system GECBSB - (WPB/ECBE) Project labs for student integrated learning WECDSB - (WSSB/ECSSB) Project labs for student integrated learning St. Clair College Manufacturing Design Facility St. Clair College intercampus project to connect remote campuses University backbone network upgrades & high tech labs – VoD delivery University Multimedia Learning and Language Laboratory Real-time H.320 and H.323 videoconferencing among partners Information kiosks - City of Windsor + on-line services Connecting Windsor-Essex for Connect Ontario/GeoSmart Support for Windsor Essex Geomatics Consortium (WEGC) Virtual Tourism Project with virtual tours on-line



ORION’s Infrastructure brings Wave Division Multiplexing for Windsor and Essex County

with direct connection to Larg*net in London, ON


“FROM A COMMUNITYCOMMUNITYOF NEIGHBOURHOODS TO A NEIGHBOURHOODNEIGHBOURHOOD COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE”


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$100,000

$200,000

$300,000

$400,000

$500,000

Cost per kilometre

road water gas electricity

fibre optics coax copper wireless

Relative Construction Costs


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Infrastructure & Applications (Key)Infrastructure & Applications (Key) Expansion of Regional Advanced Network

Fibre Optic PoP in each municipality Ease rural/urban dichotomy of level of service Improved infrastructure to library systems & schools

Connect Ontario Applications: Community Connector – portal (3 - I’s) e-Government/e-Commerce Virtual Tourism

GeoSmart Applications: Directory & Services Locator Emergency Services Routing Tourist Routing




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H.320H.320

ISDNISDNIPIP

FVC CTM FVC CTM

V-GATEV-GATE

Desktop Desktop Polycom IPPolycom IPEth

ernet

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et

VideoconferencingH.323-H.320-H.321H.323-H.320-H.321

H.323H.323

H.321H.321


Public/Private ChatUser Defined Screen Layout Users can also push a

URL in the data window to others inside the conference.

Web Conferencing – Multipoint video, audio, text chat, data collaboration from inside Internet Explorer – No standalone application required!





The Importance of Geospatial References for Conveying Information

Geographic Information Systemshave the potential to respond to questions best answered by acalculated and visual presentationof information

Locations, use, best routes,scatter and correlativereference statistics

For massive amountsdata. . .


VU is a configurable visualization software tool for the display and analysis of numerical solutions.

Immersive

Modelling




Where is e-Enablement Going for Us?

• Link WEDnet to Ontario on ORION’s OC192 backbone• Interface DWDM backbone to the existing RAN• Higher-end router interfaces (Cisco GSR & 7606 layer 3)• Minimum switch interface GbE or OC12 to each member• 20 year fibre IRU for access by members

– 1. equity fibre– 2. condo access

• Install government INP interface with WEDnet as a pilot CBN to demonstrate to others the success of the investments

• Enable BGP6 Network peering, IPv6, multicast


. . . and through its strategic alliances with MISA and others

Help network Ontario’s networking through programs such as Connect Ontario and GeoSmart (Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation, and MNR) and in cooperation with organizations such as . . .


Advanced Networking of People and Equipment



How ORION connects to national backbone


How ORION connects to R&E networks


• ORION represents a new and exciting era of growth for research and discovery in our province.

• Will enable collaborative research, R&D, and education projects and activities across Ontario.

• ORION connects users to each other, and to CA*net4, Internet2 and other R&E networks around the world.

• Operational today between:

Thunder Bay – Toronto

Ottawa – Toronto – London

Toronto - Hamilton


Planned Uses• Once fully deployed, ORION will allow:

- broad range of e-learning opportunities;

- virtual classrooms and laboratories;

- complex multimedia-based interactivity;

- real-time collaborative research;

- shared and ready access to large genomic and biotech data bases; and

- grid computing and large scale computing resources.


Examples ...• Digital resources and databases

Users will gain access to digital resources and databases, ie. Ontario Digital Library; the Ontario Bibliocentre, the UofT Library, as well as genomics databases for genome and DNA analysis and mapping, etc.

• E-health applications

ORION will provide critical connectivity for the new Northern Medical School (Sudbury and Thunder Bay and other locations), to enable delivery of services. The Ontario Cancer Research Centre will be able to utilize ORION to help transmit terrabits of research data to researchers around the world.


Examples ...• Advanced video conferencing

Lakehead University will build a multi-purpose cyberport to provide virtual and simulated environments with the National Research Centre’s virtual classroom project. ORION will allow collaborative teaching in a joint venture between the University of Guelph and Humber College to offer both a university degree and a college diploma to every graduate in four years of study.

• Advanced and grid computing

The SHARCNET project (Guelph, McMaster and Western are connected today) will use ORION to enable collaboration of computing clusters used by researchers in science, engineering, business and social sciences. ORION could bring new partners to Queen’s University’s High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.


Examples ...• E-Learning

ORION connection is key to the York Learning Community Advanced Learning Project, which encompasses both research and development in the area of advanced learning.

• Administrative efficiencies

A college expects that ORION could allow outsourcing of administrative computing to another Ontario college to reduce administrative costs. ORION will facilitate inter-institutional shared resources such as the TRELLIS, the Guelph-Waterloo-Laurier library system and the Tri-University Data Resource Centre.


• Our main challenge in the next few months is to help users and potential members to make the transition to a new advanced network-enabled environment.

• This will take some time as we all learn how to best take advantage of this new and powerful resource.

Moving Ahead


For more information:

http://www.wednet.on.ca

http://www.windsor-essex.info

Email: [email protected]

Todd Sands, Ph.D, Exec. Director

[email protected]

Other sites of interest:

http://www.orion.on.ca

http://www.RNO.on.ca

http://www.canarie.ca

http://www.c3.ca

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University of Windsor © 2004 CS 60-520 Seminar Todd Sands, Ph.D January 30, 2004