An Applications and Service talk to the Queensland Regional Networking Organisation board of mgt meeting

AARNet Copyright 2011

AARNet Applications and Service Update

James Sankar

QRNO meeting

18 November 2011


AARNet/QCIF Video Workshops

•  Three workshops held (50/50 funded) –  Melbourne (18 November – Rydges/UniMelb), –  Perth (20 November – Curtin) –  Brisbane (24 Nov- UQ)

•  70 Attendees: –  Traditional AV/IT contacts, –  eResearch & Access Grid/EVO user base –  Teaching and Learning community –  Central & faculty IT areas

•  Institutions: –  CSIRO, Curtin, Deakin, ECU, Griffith, IVEC, JCU,

John Paul College, Latrobe, Monash, QUT, SCU, RMIT, UniMelb, UoBallarat, UQ, USQ, UTas, UWA, UWS, Vic Schools, Victoria Univ, VPAC

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Melbourne

Brisbane

Perth


Unified Communications Exchange •  What is it?

–  Communications services beyond the enterprise –  Supports Enterprise Unified Communications – multivendor –  VoIP, Video, Instant Message, Presence beyond enterprise cloud –  Provide better monitoring and measurement of services

•  How does it work? –  Connects “Sessions” together for communication –  Redundancy – Equipment is duplicated with failover support as standard –  Secure – hides critical servers from WWW + Secure connections to customers

(prevents incidents like SIP attacks) –  Scalable – supports 000’s of simultaneous sessions –  Uses SIP & H.323 protocols to provide best VoIP/Video support –  Supports NAT/FireWall Traversal (connects parties together despite these

obstacles) – good where sites don’t have expertise onsite –  Supports IPv6 (Future Proof)


Unified Communications Exchange

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Ins$tu$on A Ins$tu$on B AARNet UCX

Enterprise UC

Enterprise UC

MCU

B2B video without MCU to those you know – our 1st service offering


Unified Communications Exchange

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Ins$tu$on A Ins$tu$on B AARNet UCX

Enterprise UC

Enterprise UC

Service Broker

R&E white pages + presence, click to call..

Find me, connect to me via secure dynamic white pages directory (futures)


Enable video routing via SIP/H.323 on AARNet and beyond 2008-2010

**ACSS - AARNet Conferencing Scheduling System

AARNet 3 network

AARNet UC eXchange for video calls and new and integrated services (New:

community directory, 3rd party & federated presence services)

Migration of Cisco/Polycom

Conferencing, Record, Streaming platforms to lower cost hardware or

cloud services

Interoperable TelePresence

Services (multi-vendor, multi

device + scale)

Extension of Global VoIP/Video SIP

services, with mobile application and

Unified Communications convergence with

other services

Mobile video services platform and gateway with

other services via a secure, scalable.

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Using SIP/H.323 SBCs to enable Point-‐to-‐Point and mul$-‐point (via MCU) video calls from an enterprise based unified communica$ons system (usually point-‐to-‐point calls only support audio)

Using SIP/H.323 SBCs to leverage connec$ons to create a contacts pages portal (searchable) to find experts, see presence, click to call

Using SIP to connect different Cisco TelePresence suites together via the TelePresence eXchange


Enable TelePresence interoperability and move hardware to cloud 2008-2010


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This example (above) uses the Polycom MCU with Cisco’s TelePresence Interoperable Protocol (TIP) support to connect Cisco TP suites to tradi$onal video suites (H.323/IP based), AARNet will explore mul$-‐vendor solu$ons before deciding on the recommended solu$on.

This example (right) uses AARNet’s MCUs to connect non Cisco TelePresence systems from mul$ple vendors together, this example shows Huawei and Polycom suites (view from webstream on leU image, view from Huawei suite to 2 x Polycom suites on right image.


First calls with Monash University •  Point to Point •  Multipoint •  NLR Peering with US sites •  Website/how to join •  Interoperability tests started


Support multiple personal video platforms, ideally behind AUCX 2008-2010


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Cisco Webex offers a collabora$on tool that can integrate with Cisco TelePresence (client and server $)

EVO enables video collabora$on and integrates with Access Grids (server $ and free client)

AARNet Anywhere (ViVu) can connect mul$ple Skype par$cipants together (free client, beta server trial)

Skype is a free client for point-‐to-‐oint video and a[racts a subscrip$on for mul$point calls

Vidyo offers a scalable video codec solu$on for low bandwidth loca$ons, can integrate with H.323 MCUs (server and client $)

Mul5ple Gateways appear today to be the only technical solu5on to connect the mobile applica5on world to the video room based world but the trick will be to do so in a secure, scalable and simple way for the end user


New partnerships •  Open Visual Communications

Consortium (Global) –  First R&E Network operator –  Goal: To enable “meet me” rooms via

SBC/SIP/ENUM based connections for video calls across multi-vendor member networks

–  Members: AT&T, BCS Global, Airtel, BT Conferencing Services, Masergy, Orange, Polycom, Telstra, Verizon, Teliris, Dialogic, AARNet

•  National Networking Initiative (Auz/NZ) –  DEEWR Govt funded –  Building on Australian

Teaching and Learning Council outcomes

–  Goal: Seek ways to support teaching, learning, learning mgt systems

–  Members: ACODE, ascilite, HERDSA, CADAD, ODLAA, AARNet, NetSpot and DEEWR


Bring all the services together where it makes sense to 2008-2010


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Making all room based systems and personal/mobile video systems talk to one another requires careful evalua5on and decisions on 1.  Selec$on of Gateways/traversal solu$ons to reach out to all video

systems across IPv4 and ideally IPv6 2.  Appropriate management, opera$on and scaling of mul$ple services

to avoid N-‐squared complexity and cost 3.  Keeping the system simple and easy to use for the end user 4.  Keeping the costs and complexity low for the customer who supports

the end user 5.  Balancing the avoidance of vendor lock in versus complexity of the

mul$-‐vendor environment 6.  Balancing Open Source versus off the shelf 7.  Future proofing on open standards 8.  Managing and influencing the vendors, encouraging healthy

compe$$on for be[er products at lower prices 9.  Showcasing the benefits of the AARNet network 10. Enabling synergies with collabora$on plahorms used in research,

teaching and learning

Next steps: 1. Establish a communica5ons convergence steering commiHee 2. Develop the overall plan (scope, cost/benefit, risk assessment) 3. Implement work packages, track progress, review overall plan


Possible technical work packages (TBA) 1.  Move current services behind the AUCX, explore Firewall/NAT traversal

solutions for greater security, border traversal access, reach.

2.  Extend the AUCX with ENUM to cater for multi-dial plans on IP/E.164/URI via SIP trunks/gatekeepers for personal video end users to connect to NVCS and TP Suites.

3.  Extend Telepresence Exchange services to interoperate with open standards based H.323/IP via AUCX

4.  Scheduling extended to Telepresence services with AAF access.

5.  Test external cloud based conferencing services (soft MCUs).

6.  Develop and test video applications for mobile devices accessible via 3G/wifi/NBN/AARNet connections.

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Who to call for more information? •  Either enquire at •  [email protected] - 24x7 NOC/Helpdesk Phone: •  1300 APL NOC (1300 275 662)

•  Or Direct to [email protected] or call 1300 11 NVCS (or +61 2 6222 7527)

•  Or Me at [email protected]

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An Applications and Service talk to the Queensland Regional Networking Organisation board of mgt meeting