Day 0: InTAC

This year’s New Zealand Internet Technical Architecture Conference is about the future.

There are other fora for championing current developments – InTAC is purely future-focused.

Collaborative notes for InTAC

Overview

The Architecture layer: above infrastructure, below requirements.

Architecture is sometimes defined as that which sits between WHAT users want and HOW it’s delivered to them. It’s impossible to get that right without considering whats above and below.

Knowledge sharing

Every organisation in this industry faces a unique set of challenges with regard to their Internet connected future. InTAC is the opportunity for architects to share these challenges with their peers as well as how they are overcoming them.

Direction-setting

In trying to bridge the gap between user requirements and technical infrastructure, architects play a large part in setting the future direction of the New Zealand Internet. InTAC is a useful place to tease out these direction changes and validate that the community is comfortable with them.

This year: The NetFlix effect; organic growth or stepchange?

What does the changing face of user demand look like?

What happens when people who previously only used their home connections for email and web, start using it for multiple 4-5Mbps streams? What happens when everyone on their street does that?

Take a drive down any New Zealand street and look at all the Sky dishes on the roof – what if every one of those houses was trying to pull 20Mbps during primetime instead? What would our network do with all that demand?

We take a look at his problem, from the people at one end to the content delivery at the other.

Programme

Introduction

9am
Dean Pemberton, InternetNZ

The People Factor: what users want

9:30am
Paul Brislen, ex-CEO of TUANZ

How are people changing the way they use the net, access content, or basically live their life while interacting with the Internet?

The connected home and the Internet of Things

10am
Amber Craig, ANZ

Once we realise that peoples’ usage patterns have changed, it also means that the infrastructure in their houses will need to change. Multiple screens all streaming content will stress the sorts of networking hardware that people have today. This will be made even more significant if we see an increase in IoT-style devices.

Morning tea

10:30am

Lightbox – content delivery in New Zealand

11am
Kym Nyblock, Chief Executive of Lightbox

What it’s all about. How do you deliver something over the Internet which traditionally used a broadcast mechanism to achieve scale? Our question for content operators is “what do you need from the rest of the sectors (ISP/Access/HomeNetwork)to be able to deliver the NEXT big thing?”.

Quickflix – another view of content delivery in New Zealand

11:45am
Paddy Buckley, MD of Quickflix NZ

What it’s all about. How do you deliver something over the Internet which traditionally used a broadcast mechanism to achieve scale? Our question for content operators is “what do you need from the rest of the sectors (ISP/Access/HomeNetwork)to be able to deliver the NEXT big thing?”.

Lunch

12:30pm

Building an access network for demand and scale – new challenges

2pm
Kurt Rogers, Chorus

Today, access networks are built with the assumption that not everyone will be using their access speed at the same time. What happens if that’s not true anymore?

The new smart ISP

2:45pm
Colin Brown, GM of Networks at Spark

What will ISPs have to do to enable this new mode of usage, and what do ISPs need to do to ensure that they are never the bottleneck?

Afternoon tea

3:30pm