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The Future
isn’t what it used to be
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What APAN’s future looked like in 1996
Concept
APEC Symposium for Realizing the Information Society,
Tsukuba, Japan, first draft:
proposed to interconnect the regional high-speed
testbeds … at the rate of the fastest testbeds to form
the Asia/Pacific High Speed Network testbed
additional opportunity to establish a bridge from USA
to Asia Pacific Testbed through NSF …
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What APAN’s future looked like in 1996
Network
 Establishment of an Asia-Pacific Network (APAN) broadband
network that could:
 develop Asia-Pacific hubs
 interconnect national broadband test beds in the region
 interconnect national research networks in the region
 support international collaboration between groups in the region
that requires connectivity of this speed
 allow coordinated involvement of the region in GIBN
 contribute to the development of an Asia-Pacific Information
Infrastructure as part of a Global Information Infrastructure
 support connectivity at lower speeds for developing countries
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Application Technologies
“There are various application technologies that could
form the basis of regional collaboration that would
require a broadband network, e.g.:
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Remote virtual reality (telepresence)
Tele-collaborative environments (colaboratories)
Remote access to specialized equipment and facilities
Multimedia
Data access and data fusion”
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Application Areas
“These in turn could be applied to problems in the
following application areas:
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Medicine (telemedicine)
Distance education (virtual university/institute)
Remote sensing data
Environment
Weather
Mining
Infrastructure development
Agriculture and Fishing”
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What APAN’s future looked like in 1996
Data, Storage, Visualisation
Data Will:
 be stored in different places
 be gathered from different kinds of remote satellite sensors
(e.g. photometric, radar infrared, etc.)
 require terabytes and eventually petabytes of massive
storage using advanced database techniques
 be subject to various levels of pre-processing
 require high performance computing systems, sophisticated
visualization techniques (e.g. 3D, VR, etc.) and constantly
changing analytical tools for its processing
 comprise files >1GB in size
 comprise long time-series of data”
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Global Networking in 1996
Europe - TEN-34 (pre-GEANT)
North America - NSFnet (pre Abilene and CANet)
Asia-Pacific connectivity almost entirely US-centric
Global interconnects rudimentary
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Structure of a Global Information Infrastructure 1996
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Asia-Pacific Connectivity - 1996
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Asia-Pacific Connectivity - 2003
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TEIN2 today
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TEIN2 today
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Enormous strides in recent times
 Start of a pan-Asian Network
 Much less US centric
 “This year will mark the first time that intra-Asian bandwidth
usage has significantly outpaced trans-Pacific capacity. “
Telegeography, 21 July 2006
 Massively reduced latency
 Societal Benefit in addition to vastly improved infrastructure
to enhance global collaboration
 But are we getting the message across to those that could
most benefit?
 Are we helping enough for researchers and other potential
users get the most benefit?
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Telepresence on advanced networks
“As good as being there”
Relies on good
Bandwidth
Quality of service
Latency (delay)
Supported by Human Factors
and Computer Human
Interaction research
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Network Technology/Science interface
 In many cases the network is no longer the constraint on
throughput – but do the users know?
 Improving interaction in disciplines with high-end
requirements between network technologists, end-to-end
performance specialists and scientists (HEP,
radioastronomy)
 Is that scalable? Is that enough?
 Who else needs to be involved?
 Discipline/application specific?
 Interactive multimedia…..
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Emerging directions – Telepresence (i)
Complex information spaces,
such as multidimensional
medical images
Support for delivery of
complex procedures over a
distance
Surgery, Emergency medicine
Synchronous interaction
rather than “store & forward”
Not just telehealth…….
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Telepresence - continued
Support of multisensoral
working
High resolution video
Stereoscopic video
Stereophonic sound
Immersive vision for high
situation awareness
Haptic (force) feedback for
interaction with tissue (differing
views)
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Disruptive Technologies and impact
SMS
Blackberry
iPod
In-flight internet access
The wireless environment
Examples if there is time
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Today’s Future and the challenges ahead
The pace of change is increasing
Generational challenges
Keeping pace with our communities, engagement
and mutual understanding
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Governance of APAN
APAN is still very much a volunteer organisation
It doesn’t have the financial backing of it’s
counterparts in Europe or North America
APAN is an organisation of “good intent”, with good
will and collegiate spirit
But with the pace of change, new environment, new
demands and requirements we need to ensure our
structure and processes are robust while still
remaining an “Organisation of Good Intent”
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