Presentation by Warrick Mitchell at APRICOT 2019 on Tuesday, 26 February 2019.

1. NEW CABLE SYSTEMS
CONNECTING
AUSTRALIA
Warrick Mitchell
February 2019

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Who is AARNet?
Why this matters!
New Submarine Cable
Systems

3. WHO IS AARNET

4. AARNet’s mission is to enable globally
competitive research, education and
innovation by providing transformational
connectivity and collaboration services to
meet the unique needs of our customers

5. NATIONAL
COMMUNITY
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6. NATIONAL
COMMUNITY
PFRAs
Cultural
Schools K-12,
TAFEs
Instruments
HealthUniversities
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INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK COMMUNITY

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SOME BACKGROUND ON AARNET
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Facts on AARNet
• We are a non-for-profit company
• Owned by the 38 Australian universities and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
• Licensed telecommunications carrier
• Funded through membership subscriptions
• Owns or has direct access to fibre optic cable across Australia and through major capital cities
• Delivers a high performance network across Australia and to International destinations
• Provides a range of value-added network, collaboration, content and mobility services
• Pioneered the arrival of the Internet in Australia in 1989!

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DOMESTIC NETWORK

10. INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
20Gbps
245Gbps
.

11. GuamME & Africa
46%
Europe
29%
North America
25%
Asia
37%
Latin America
21%
WORLD IP TRAFFIC GROWTH FORECASTS
World IP Transit Forecast Growth
2017-2022 CAGR

12. NEW CABLE SYSTEMS

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INDIGO CABLE SYSTEM
AARNet, Google, Indosat,
Singtel, SubPartners and
Telstra
Sydney to Singapore
via Perth
Open, Spectrum Sharing
Solution
Subsea fibre system:
9,000 km
First subsea project
with an NREN partner
Expected lifespan:
25+ Years

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JGA SOUTH PROJECT
RTI, AARNet and Google
Sydney – Guam
Boosts capacity from
Australia to Asia
36Tb Cable system
Subsea fibre system:
6,200 km
Second subsea project
with an NREN partner
Expected lifespan:
25+ Years Sydney
Minami-Boso
Japan
Piti Guam
JGA South
JGA North

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INDIGO CABLE LANDS IN PERTH

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SO WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO AARNET?
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Connectivity towards Asia/Europe to match our traffic volumes
• Our current international traffic is ~55% Asia + Europe and ~45% Americas.
With significant capacity to Asia
• Provides overall greater flexibility
• Low latency and increased redundancy for our international traffic
Terrestrial Diversity
• Indigo Central enables cost effective diversity between Perth and the East Coast of Australia
• Access to fibre underpins AARNet’s ability to provide differentiated price and performance

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NREN REGIONAL CONTEXT
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https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ Updated May 5, 2018
Capacity from a number
of NREN’s flow through
Guam already.
Creation of GOREX
Peering Exchange
(https://gorex.uog.edu/)
The SCCN, Hawaiki and
JGA Cable Systems are
and will provide greater
and more cost effective
connectivity options for
Pacific Island Countries

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WHY THIS MATTERS
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https://blog.geant.org/2017/05/15/taking-it-to-the-limit-testing-the-performance-of-re-networking
Comparative Times for a 100TByte data transfer
Route Path File Size (TB) Data Rate (GBit/s) Time Taken (Hours) Time Taken (Days)
NREN 100 9.27 34.0 1.4
ISP-A 100 1.72 183.2 7.6
ISP-B 100 0.11 2864.3 119.3

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EVOLUTION IN RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS (IRU)
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https://www.iru.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Strengthening-Research-in-Asia-Publication-2016.pdf (SCOPUS)
2745
1490
3185
1145
716
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2020 Proj
Intensive Research Universities Publications:
International Collaborators 2009-2013
USA UK China Germany Canada

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WHY THIS MATTERS
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WHY THIS MATTERS
Genomic sequencing
transforming lives
Modelling the impact of
climate change
Building the square
kilometre array
Facilitating high energy
physics experiments on a
global scales
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22. QUESTIONS

23. THANK YOU