Smart Gigabit Communities

Glenn Ricart

January 26, 2016

Chattanooga EPBBurlington TelecomOne Community ClevelandUTOPIA

Verizon FiOsGoogle FiberAT&T GigapowerCenturyLink gigabitComcast 2-gigabit

4 apps have receivedVC funding

Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications (SESA)

Gigabit

Community centric

Interoperable

Interconnected

Attract community investment

Gigabit

Community Centric

What would a Metro Internet look like if it were designed to support:

- Internet of Things (IoT)?- Billions of wireless devices?- Industrial Internet?- Low-cost endpoints? (close digital divide)

Roll that out in cities across the U.S. and globally and use it to leverage innovative applications and services.

Interoperable

Interconnected

Community Investment

Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications (SESA)

Gigabit

Community centric

Interoperable

Interconnected

Attract community investment

Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC)Gigabit

Community centric

Interoperable

Interconnected

Attract community investment

Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC)

Kickoff

Smart Gigabit Communities

Benefits for Participating Cities• A fully interconnected metro gigabit Internet• Smart city brain + smart city applications

• IoT• Industrial Internet (digital manufacturing)• Cyberphysical systems

• Attract entrepreneurs and economic development and tech jobs• Gigabit innovation and ecosystem of gigabit applications• Growing your initial metro gigabit Internet and smart city brain

• Nonpartisan rallying point for business-government-education collaboration

• Digitally self-sufficient communities• Bridge digital divide• Federal seed money• National recognition as a Smart Gigabit Community

A Few Details

• 3 year NSF grant ends September 2018• But it only plants the seed –

we expect sustainable community investment• Grant provides for 3 more communities in the last year• Accepting additional self-funded communities• Interim results at Application Summits – June 13-15, Austin• Community

• Steering group• Support the new metro Internet architecture & apps• Activate the local tech community for sustainable growth

• Technical• Digital Town Square• Smart City Brain

National Community LeaderNishal Mohan, Ph.D.

National Technical LeaderScott Turnbull

Digital Town SquareInterconnect yourislands of gigabit

Google Fiber

CenturyLink

Local K-12Network

Slice Controller

Local datacenter w/

Docker containers

GENI Rack

Local University

Large Local Employer

Local WISP

Internet 2

GENI Rack or equivalent

Interconnected with other communities

Privacy-protected slices

Transition to commercial infrastructure

Smart City Brain

24SMART GIGABIT COMMUNITIES

SGCGigabit Apps

Gigabit Infrastructure

Gigabit Community Activities

More resilient cityEconomic growthBridge digital divideCivic prideInnovation

Digital Town Square

Digital Town SquareInterconnect yourislands of gigabit

Google Fiber

CenturyLink

Local K-12Network

Slice Controller

Local datacenter w/

Docker containers

GENI Rack

Local University

Large Local Employer

Local WISP

Internet 2

Home or Business SDX – Paradrop.io

Chute

ChuteVia carrier to

digital town squareChute

Chute

OpenWRT with Paradrop

Connectivity Options

Connectivity OptionsA wide variety is possible

1.You have a GENI rack in your community – you’re already connected

2.US Ignite provides a GENI rack or equivalenta)State or regional education networkb)Internet2

Examples of Smart Gigabit Community Applications

What are the new applications and what do they need?

G = Gigabit to end user; I = slice Isolation for privacy/security; R= engineered deterministic response time and reliability

• Cloud-based Home Medical Monitoring (I, R, sometimes G)• Cloud-based Control of Home Medical Devices (I, R, sometimes G)• Cloud-based virtual reality headsets for experiential education (G, R)• Stream complex apps from a local cloud to close digital divide (G, R)

• Helping a child of immigrants learn to read by listening / correcting (I, R)

• Visualizing large databases (e.g., pollution sources, transit services, a patient’s own medical scans) (G, R, sometimes I)

What are the new applications and what do they need?

G = Gigabit to end user; I = slice Isolation for privacy/security; R= engineered deterministic response time and reliability

• Coordinating peak energy uses across buildings (R, sometimes I)• Real-time infrastructure for continuous-motion vehicles (V2I) (I, R)• Consumer-based GIS systems (G, R, sometimes I)• Realtime license plate scanning (I, R)• Continuous health monitoring and response (e.g., smart underwear,

embedded sensors) (I, R)• Reduced-cost low-latency Telepresence (G, I, R)• Many more at us-ignite.org and globalcityteams.org

Afternoon – White House Slide

35SMART GIGABIT COMMUNITIES

SGCGigabit Apps

Gigabit Infrastructure

Gigabit Community Activities

More resilient cityEconomic growthBridge digital divideCivic prideInnovation

Backup slides and notes

Technical Observations

• Metro access capacity growing much faster than backbone capacity• Much of the new traffic from the Internet of Things and

Cyberphysical Systems can be acted on locally (within the city)• For latency and reliability purposes, much of that new traffic should

be acted upon locally (within the city)• Slicing (GENI style or multi-tenant style) would aid in security by

isolating traffic• Wireless is as important as wired (or fibered)

What Metropolitan Internet design would best support the above?

Metropolitan Internet Design Objectives

• Keep local traffic local: Locavore / edge• Implies dispersing the cloud for local-only processing• Keep sensitive traffic isolated: Slicing / orchestration• Leverage bandwidth in the local gigabit access networks• Improve perceived quality of service for current customers• Leverage a city’s natural soft organizational infrastructure (mayor, office

of economic development, chamber of commerce, university expertise and student availability, etc.)

• Work with tech corporations to achieve their objectives (local + nat’l)• Focus on win-win actions to keep maximum constituency

Metropolitan Internet Design Advantages

• Any design that meets the previous page also:• Makes a city more resilient (less prone to problems caused by natural

disasters elsewhere)• Attracts new economic development around smart cities, IoT,

cyberphysical systems, entrepreneurs• Establishes a basis for university / city partnerships• Fosters civic pride• Encourages competition in providing local services

Draft: Intended Progression of Digital Town Square

1. Traditional layer 3 exchange pointIP adressing; no flow identification

2. Software-defined layer 2 flow identification / switchingFlows explicitly identified with their desired handlingApplications negotiate w/controllers for their desired flow

handling(also needed for incremental billing)Deterministic handling may mean many things including:

PriorityDrop or queueWhen to re-negotiateWhen to notify application about actual packet handlingFlow isolation for securityEtc.

Local Cloud (Locavore, Edge)

• Bootstrap off existing GENI racks for fast start

• Pivot to newer compute/storage technologies

• Properties• Low initial cost• Incremental additions

• Facilitate a fully commercial future local cloud

Applications Development

• Encourage container apps (e.g., Docker)

• Each participating community agrees to develop two and share them with the other cities

• NSF is offering to fund applications development• Other known sponsors: Intel, IBM, Dept. of Transportation• Recruiting additional sponsors before White House launch

• Some evidence of venture funding already

• Success proof: SmartFuture2015

Outline

• Name Change• Explain SESA – not a project, the beginning of a change in the Internet• Explain SGC• What is a community

• This is the project kickoff• The project – communities / timing• What we’re going to do• The Team• Who is here

• What’s different?• Internet innovation is moving from the “cloud” to cities and communities

• IoT and M2M AT&T: 50 billion by 2020• Vint Cerf• Gigabit access = the new 1%; 50 million devices per community in this room

• Four things a gigabit community can do• Interconnect islands of gigabit – Digital Town Square; franchise digital town square• Execution and storage – GENI• The key is applications – what’s important for your community?• Interoperable and interconnected

Tuesday morning

• Cities are at the center of a new revolution in the Internet• Massive investments by Google, AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, and cities themselves to deploy

affordable gigabit Internet service --replace landline telephone service with gigabit Internet as the expected fourth utility (after electricity, water, gas. Telephone)• Universal broadband service already known to

• Improve learning outcomes• Improve access to government services• Employment

• The Internet of Things appears about to explode

Sustainable Ecosystem of Smart Applications

• Applications leveraging a next-generation Metro Internet• What’s new?

• Interoperable• Interconnected• Sustainable