Bill Efthimiou - AUCX and G-RTC.pptx

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AARNet Copyright 2012

Network Operations

AUCX and G-RTCSpecial Interest Group

fone@RNP 2013Bill Efthimiou


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AUCX What is it? AARNet Unified Communications eXchange

Free National/International VoIP/Video Calls

Research and Education centric

TelePresence eXchange

No TDM. An IP only exchange.

Transparent to the end caller/callee.

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AUCX How does it work? Trust Fabric established

Combination of commercial grade call control equipmentspread across 3 PoPs

Coordinator/Broker of B2B Signaling and Media

Nationally

Internationally

Connects enterprise PABX, UC platforms & SBCs

Coordinating best practice within the enterprise

Dial Plans, External access + security considerations,

interoperability tests

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AUCX SBC redundancy

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AUCX Topology overview (a)

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AARNet TelePresence/UnifiedCommunications eXchange

border proxy/

controller

Call

Control

Media address

Signaling address

Media address

Signaling address

media path

signaling path

University A University BAARNet


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AUCX Topology overview (b)

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AARN t C i ht 2012


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AUCX sample customer topology (a)

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AUCX sample customer topology (b)

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AUCX Dial Plan

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E.164 Well formed carrier pre-allocated numbers only.

Called Number.

Calling Number.

Avoid virtual numbers.

URI Dialing

SIP:[email protected]

H323:[email protected]

SIP:[email protected]

H323:[email protected]

http://sip:[email protected]/http://sip:[email protected]/http://sip:[email protected]/http://sip:[email protected]/


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AUCX - Why Primary driver = To make video calling a reality.

Existing AARNet customer relationship.

Take advantage of NREN strengths.

Massive bandwidth capabilities

Low latency links

Inter-NREN peering

We have an inherent interest to aid our global researchersin their quest for solving problems and bleeding edgeknowledge. Research is increasingly global.

Collectively we have millions ($$$) invested in multimediacommunications equipment. Use it wisely.

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Benefits AUCX resides on the AARNet Network

Easier access into NVCS resources

Our eXchange is flexible Multivendor enterprise platforms (Cisco, Avaya, Microsoft, NEC, ININ, Asterisk,

opensource).

Multiple services

IPv6, QoS

Telephony

Video calling

Telepresence

International R&E reach

Securityfewer firewall ports/IPs open

AUCX platform can add new services Off.net calls

Domain based dialing

Hosted Telephony11

- WebRTC/HTML5- Managed SIP trunk



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AUCX: status - growth

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Year on year growth in minutes



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AUCX: status progress and roadmap

Call accounting and reporting. V2 completed. V3 in planned.

Display of calling numbers. Complete.

Topology Hiding. Complete.

MS Lync signaling interop. In progress.

Managed SIP trunk/peering service. In progress.

Legacy H.323 infrastructure integration. In progress.

SIP Registrar. Planned.

IPv6. Planned.

Selected PSTN to/from USA. Planned but with potential caveats.

ON-Net PSTN access via SIP trunking. Potential.13



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AUCX: How to learn more

https://wiki.aarnet.edu.au/display/UCX/Home

Email: [email protected]


SIP: [email protected]

Phone: +612 97796962

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G-RTC - What Global Real Time Communications exchange

2012 Global NREN CEO Forum

Free International VoIP/Video Calls

Transparent to the end caller/callee.

NRENum.net (ENUM), by TERENA based out of Europe.

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G-RTC Why Participate Save your members on International toll charges.

Utilize the Inter-NREN high speed network infrastructure.

Utilize existing investments in multimedia communicationsequipment. IP-PBX, Video conferencing, TelePresence, etc.

Aid your Research, Teaching and Learning community with

global access to rich media communications.

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Global Collaboration



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G-RTC How does it work SIP and/or H.323 signaling

Ability to make and receive voice and video calls overour existing standards based systems.

By-pass the PSTN and re-route the calls over our

inter-NREN networks. Co-ordinated best practice

Work with your connected members to include themin the infrastructure.

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G-RTC Example

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G-RTC Progress Who is connected

Actively working with Internet2

JANET

NORDUnet

HARNET (CUHK & HKU)

ERNET RNP

REANNZ

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Country NREN

Australia AARNetArgentina INNOVA|RED

Belgium BELNET

Brazil RNP

Croatia CARNet

Denmark NORDUNet

France RENATER

Greece GRNET

Hong Kong HARNET

Hungary NIIF

India ERNETItaly GARR

Latvia SigmaNet

Lithuania LITNET

Netherlands SURFNet

New Zealand REANNZ

North America Internet2

Norway UNINETT

Poland PSNC

Portugal FCCN

Romania RoEduNet

Serbia AMRES

Slovenia ARNES

Spain RedIRIS

Sweden NORDUNet

Switzerland SWITCH

United Kingdom JANET

Source: www.nrenum.net



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How to participate preliminary work Can your Call Control server (SIP, H.323, or other) support ENUM queries?

Does your existing DNS infrastructure support ENUM (NAPTER record)lookup?

Do some testing.

Read the following:

How to Participate:https://confluence.terena.org/display/NRENum/How+to+participate

Service Policy:https://confluence.terena.org/display/NRENum/Service+policy

Delegation Request:https://confluence.terena.org/display/NRENum/Delegation+request

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How to participate production work Dual and redundant production DNS servers required to join NRENum.net

Make a delegation request :https://confluence.terena.org/display/NRENum/Delegation+request

Prepare your country zone to be delegated to you and tested by root servermanagers.

Set a National policy inline with the NRENum.net global policy.

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Network Operations

Thank You

Questions?


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Phone: +612 97796952

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Bill Efthimiou - AUCX and G-RTC.pptx