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The Quilt - 2018 Winter Member Meeting Alyssa Moore, Policy & Strategy Analyst February 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 mi² Population: 4 million

Alberta

Albertans Connected to Cybera Cybera Member Organization Breakdown 665,096

Students or Employees (Full Time Equivalent)

K-12 and Post-Secondary Institutions Students Connecting to Cybera

Funding & Finances

Staff: 33 Teams: 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 Projects

Dynamic 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

• bligation
• 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

Thank you!

cybera.ca | @cybera alyssa.moore@cybera.ca