Finnet's Supermatrix

Marko Tyrväinen

T-111.5550 Seminar on MultimediaCloud Computing

About Finnet

consists of 27 locally operating telephone companies + Finnet Association

provides local and national voice calls, data connections and digital television services

Supermatrix -project

started on 17 April 2009 aims to virtualise users’ computers digi-tv STBs and PVRs and will provide the

whole desktop as a service user only needs display, mouse and keyboard provides ”efficient virtual computers and fast

internet connection” (what does this mean?) provides backuping, hardware maintenance,

virus security, OS updates etc.

What?

100 Mbit/s connection inside the Supermatrix core network (also some local services?)

Integrate television, digibox and PC Windows 7 / Linux for users Enable ”probably 3D-(television) programs and

4x HDTV Supermatrix-network could be financially viable

by the year 2016

Why?

free non-computer oriented people from computer problems

currently Finnish internet trunk network can provide HD quality IPTV for 100-10 000 simultaneous viewers

centralized services only viable way to have HDTV available through the internet for everyone

Problems / issues

Huge project → money (est. 1 billion euros in the next 10 years)

First of its kind (at least in Europe) → no place to take examples from

server hardware / software / OS not decided yet additional user hardware (USB-devices, etc.) maintenance user identification security issues juridical issues

Collaborators AinaCom Oy Alcatel-Lucent Suomi Oy BCC Finland Oy BaseN Oy Cisco Oy L M Ericsson Ab FC Sovelto Oyj Fujitsu Services Oy Hewlett-Packard Oy Oy International Business Machines Ab Innofactor Oy Nokia Siemens Networks Oy Otavan Opisto Softera Oy Sun Microsystems Oy Tieto Finland Oy VMware

More

www.supermatrix.fi (only in Finnish) http://www.finnet.fi/english/finnetgroup/supermatrix.html