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Finnet's Supermatrix
Marko Tyrväinen
T-111.5550 Seminar on MultimediaCloud Computing
About Finnet
consists of 27 locally operating telephone companies
provides local and national voice calls, data connections and digital television services
Supermatrix, in theory
started on 17 April 2009 aims to virtualise users’ computers combine digi-tv STBs and PVR and PC to
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.
Architecture
Supermatrix, in practice
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
Timeline
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 application control additional user hardware (USB-devices, etc.) maintenance user identification security issues juridical issues etc.
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
Questions?
References
www.supermatrix.fi (only in Finnish) http://www.finnet.fi/english/finnetgroup/supermatrix.html