AARNet provides high-speed internet connectivity and services for research and education in Australia, having been established in 1991, and owns and operates its own national network connecting universities and research institutions. It partners with other organizations to deliver additional services like wireless access, cloud storage, and videoconferencing to help education and research institutions operate more efficiently. AARNet continues to evolve its services to take advantage of new technologies and work with partners to address trends in online education, research collaboration, and other areas.

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Leadership for Innovation
(A progress driven occasional risk
taker) Green/Orange
James Sankar, Director
AARNet Enterprise Services

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About AARNet
1991 – Via the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee, AARNet 1
(kbps to mbps) was born! The first Internet in Australia
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22 years later, AARNet embarks on its 4th network (AARNet4) with 10-100 Gbps

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About AARNet
• Not for Profit organisation
• Subscription based charging model
(excess traffic charges apply)
• Owned by 38 Australian University
and CSIRO shareholders
• 70 staff (Perth, Adelaide,
Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney,
Brisbane)
• Exclusively for Australian Higher
Education and Research
• Part of a global network of
Research & Education Networks

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A Global Community with Global (G20 CEO) initiatives
Global Network, Global Identity, Global Services, Global Communications
One of 120 Worldwide National Research & Education Networks
Connected
Initiative
Planned

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Our International Connectivity for two-way collaboration, data, cloud services
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4x10Gbps + 2x40Gbps
4x10Gbps + 2x100Gbps
Currently
4x2.5Gbps + 2x10Gbps

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Connecting Research & Education Communities
Universities
Schools TAFEs
Hospitals
Cultural Research

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Our National Connectivity

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FarmerUniversity
Research Centre
Industry
AARNet & the NBN – Complementary Networks
An Example: Armidale

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NBN Business
1989
1995
2000
NOW
2030
10 Mbps
1 Pbps
BANDWIDTH
U P L O A D
D O W N L O A D
1 Gbps
NBN Home
ADSL 2+
ADSL 1
ISDN PRI
Dialup
Media rich interactive cloud services
(new & future web-applications)
1 Pbps
1 Gbps
1x Low-def videoconference
1x HD Videoconference
1 Tbps
1 Tbps
100 Mbps
Education & Research institutions
1 Pbps
= 1,000 Tbps
= 1,000,000 Gbps
NBN
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AARNet & the NBN – Complementary Networks
Connecting large numbers online to University services

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Network Invisibility:
Partnering to deliver more services ….

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Forecast Trends
• Do More with Less $
• Digitising and Partnering for Sales, Delivery,
Back Office
• Growing base of diverse customers served
directly or via partners
• Virtual Tours -
http://www.virtualexcursionsaustralia.com.au
• Mixed mode of delivery – Sales/Distribution –
MOOCs, Cloud CRM,
• Back Office Outsourced “Network-As-A-
Service”? Refocusing ITS to faculty needs
Challenges in a partner digitised world
• Service dependencies on third parties
• Resourcing “on demand” agility
• New ITS Skills – Broker of services and
contracts.
• Understanding the value of data and
services versus costs of the service over
time (and growth forecasts)
• Encouraging cost effective IT Services use
• Refocusing IT staff from generic to genetic
service differentiation
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The Changing University Landscape

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Content Delivery – Peering

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Current
In Progress
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BYOD for zero effort, zero cost, global mobility
service for Health, Education and Researcher
users
Mobility – Worldwide Access to Secure Wireless Hotspots

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Sizeable
Send
YouSendIt MediaFire Box.net Amazon s3 DropBox
Max Size
(File)
Unlimited
(tested to
100GB)
2GB 2GB 7GB 5GB 5TB Limited by
space
Space (Free) Unlimited 2GB 2GB Limited by
distribution
5GB 5GB (pay
for data
delivered)
2GB
Speed*
(100MB
Upload)
25s 3m 11s 2m 35s est 17m 2m 21s 4m 07s 3m 52s
Speed*
(Typical)
4MB/s 0.5MB/s 0.6MB/s 0.2MB/s 0.8MB/s 0.4MB/s 0.4MB/s
$$$$
(Maximum)
FREE POA Up to $175
pa
Up to $600
pa
POA No
maximum
Up to $795
pa
Content Delivery – Shared Data via
* Speed testing comparisons conducted from within the AARNet network
Note: Data accurate as of March 28, 2012.
Large, Fast and Free

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CloudStor+ Speed Test Comparison
CloudStor+ SugarSync SkyDrive Google
Drive
Box.net Amazon
CloudDrive
DropBox
Upload
Speed
(Typical)
30MB/s 0.3MB/s 0.75MB/s 0.75MB/s 0.15MB/s 0.2MB/s 0.55MB/s
“Orders of Magnitude” Faster
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Storage Services initiatives underway – unmetered high performance
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Evolution in services enabled by AARNet
Trusted Network
Performance
Virtualisation
Shared
Data Centre Networks
“The Cloud”
“Peering”
AARNet Services
Direct
connected
“on-Net” via peering

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Partnerships
Creating suitable service delivery models and
contracts, for sped, scale, agility, low cost
End-to-end connectivity
High speed, high performance
SLA compliance, low cost shared
Network of Australasian
Tertiary AssociationsShared infrastructure,
applications and tools for
eResearch
Community of
experts and
leaders
Coordinating best
practice

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Future Experiences

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Remote Interactivity Education into Cultural Institutions
Mobile Telepresence – Guided tours of the National
Museum of Australia with the CSIRO’s (yet to be
named) Robot.
http://tourbot.nma.gov.au/index/overview

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Online Education is taking off – cost effective online courseware delivery is
essential to attract and retain students and researchers
“In less than a month, Melbourne University has secured more than 38,500 enrolments for the courses it will offer next
year through international online course provider Coursera.” Andrew Trounson, The Australian. October 17, 2012

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Online Education is taking off – cost effective online courseware delivery and
learning analytics is essential to deliver on academic outcomes (e.g. Signature
Track)
h t t p : / / l e a n l e a r n i n g . w i k i s p a c e s . c o m / l e a r n i n g _ a n a l y t i c s

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Concerns
• Intellectual Property and Copyright
• Training
• Expense
• Competition eroding revenues
• Quality concerns
• Accreditation
Benefits
• Flipped classroom leads to more support time
• Brand Recognition
• Online pedagogy data to course design
• Lifelong learning aspirations
• Re-engaging alumni
• Educating the masses (community impact)
• IT alignment to the business
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Personal forecast
• Concept is here to stay, business
models are key
• Universities can complement
• Great marketing and engagement tool
• Student experience remains key
• Convergence likely
• On campus immersive virtual
environments
• Online home platforms
• Backend learning analytics

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The Major
MOOC players
are here to stay
Most start ups
are not
expected to
make money in
first 5-7 years
Source: Chronicle.com

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Digital Student Communities appearing

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We are being tracked – how do we harness for ourselves and our institutions?

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Marketing and IT – The CMO?
Source: http://www.hallaminternet.com/2013/digital-marketing-tube-map-a-guide-to-internet-marketing/#ixzz2O5zcJj00

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Virtual Workspaces Off Campus
Collaboration using Smart Services CRC “iSee”

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Trends – IT collides with marketing/faculty, go with ITS or cloud?
1. IT focus on e-Research “Big Data” is changing – MOOCs & Humanities
2. Opportunity to collectively lead L&T community (NATA+) – needs $ not volunteers
3. ITS disconnect with faculty varies by CIO/University – bring us in early, more notice?
4. Many ITS face significant budget cuts
5. Many ITS hope “cloud” is their saviour – short term, generic not genetic, long term $ and risk
(what’s the value of the data?)
6. How important is data and security to your Inst. future competitiveness?
7. ITS want to redeploy server huggers > high touch faculty support
8. ITS can be long term cost effective partner
9. Need new dialogue, new semantics
10. Need to understand each other
11. Need ITS to recognise when Tech is not the answer (its people, process silly) be effective!
12. Look to our schools for future expectations

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• Save on $ - Know if your online service is unmetered (on the AARNet
network) at any time - http://lg.aarnet.edu.au/cgi-bin/traffic.cgi
• Save on $ - Take advantage of OFF Peak between 5pm and 9am
Monday-Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday.
• Check with AARNet if a “we are connected to AARNet” statement is true
(meets a Net+ standard) – call me!
• Use our services today!
• eduroam for free wifi worldwide (Free)
• Cloudstor(+) for fast file transfers (Free and Paid)
• National video conferencing service – for bringing experts to the classroom live (Free
and Paid)
• Develop a community of IT delivered education with NATA and Interactive
Technology in Education (June 2014) events
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Ways we can help you deliver education cost effectively

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• What is your role and contribution to the business?
• What are your unique Inst. Assets that you must protect and
can utilise for short-medium-long term?
• Work Smart, Partner, Focus on need/opportunity
James Sankar, Director – Enterprise Services
Email: consulting@aarnet.edu.au
Phone: 02 9779 6938
Web:
http://www.aarnet.edu.au/services/enterprise-services-consulting
www.jamessankar.com