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Developments in Internet2 Doug Van Houweling Chinese-American Networking Symposium January 10-14, 1999 University of Maryland Commercialization Privatization 21st Century Networking SprintLink InternetMCI US Govt Networks ANS Interoperable High Performance Research &Education Networks ARPAnet Active Nets wireless WDM gigabit testbeds Research and Development NSFNET Quality of Service (QoS) Internet2, Abilene, vBNS Advanced US Govt Networks Partnerships History of Internet2 September 1995: Monterey Futures Conference August 1996: Cheyenne Mountain Workshop October 1996: Internet2 Project formed January 1997: First Internet2 Member Meeting October 1997: UCAID formed April 1998: Abilene Project Announced September 1998: Middleware Initiative Announced January 1999: Abilene in Production Internet2 Project Goals Enable new generation of applications Re-create leading edge R&E network capability Transfer capability to the global production Internet UCAID Member Universities 135 Members as of November 1998 University of Puerto Rico not shown Internet2 Corporate Partners 3Com Lucent Technologies Advanced Network MCI Worldcom & Services, Inc. Newbridge Networks AT&T Nortel Networks Cabletron Systems Qwest Communications Cisco Systems FORE IBM StarBurst Communications Internet2 Corporate Sponsors Bell South Packet Engines SBC Technology Resources StorageTek Torrent Technologies Internet2 Corporate Members Alcatel Telecom Ameritech Apple Computer AppliedTheory Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecom Compaq/DEC Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Telebeam Teleglobe Williams Communications Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering Internet2 Applications Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of: • Research • Teaching • Learning Require advanced networking Many Disciplines and Contexts Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration … Instruction Collaboration Streaming video Distributed computation Data mining Virtual reality Digital libraries … Virtual Laboratories Interactive research and instruction Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Images courtesy of the University of Michigan Virtual Laboratories Real-time access to remote instruments University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 3-D Brain Mapping Digital Libraries Video and audio Indiana University Variations Project Distributed Computation Multi-site databases Old Dominion University Chesapeake Bay Simulation Image courtesy of Old Dominion University Distributed Computation Large-scale computation University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Image courtesy of UCAR Teleimmersion Shared virtual reality University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone Images courtesy Univ of IllinoisChicago Middleware Challenges Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a precommercial production environment Examples: • Distributed storage - I2DSI initiative • Multicast video tools - I2DVN initiative Engineering Objectives Deploy a production network to support applications R&D Establish quality of service (QoS) • Qbone initiative Support native multicast Establish gigaPoPs as effective service points Network Architecture GigaPoP One GigaPoP Two I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoP Three GigaPoP Four “Gigabit capacity point of presence” an aggregation point for regional connectivity GigaPoPs, cont. University A I2 Interconnect Cloud E.g. vBNS, Abilene GigaPoP One Regional Network University B University C Commodity Internet Connections Internet2 GigaPoPs Abilene Project Provide advanced network testbed Support Internet2 applications development Demonstrate next generation operational and quality of service capabilities Create facilities for network research Abilene Network January 1999 Seattle New York Sacramento Denver Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles Atlanta Abilene Router Node Abilene Access Node Operational January 1999 Planned 1999 Houston Abilene Characteristics 2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192) Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3) IP over Sonet technology Access PoPs very close to almost all of the anticipated university gigaPoPs Abilene Schedule Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting, in pre-production at several universities, connected to Chicago switch for STAR TAP Janurary 1999: Initial set of members connected in production mode By December 1999: around 65 institutions connected For UCAID Members Involvement in the decisions Responsive to continuing needs Driven by member research Potential for increasing connectivity for all UCAID university members wanting to participate in Research Goals. Current Priorities Establish backbone connectivity Facilitate middleware implementation Support network research Identify and develop first phase applications Build international collaboration opportunities US Federal Government: Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program http://www.ngi.gov Established in parallel with Internet2 multi-agency research and development (R&D) program to develop, test, and demonstrate advanced networking technologies and applications via testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today's Internet Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship Similar technical objectives Focused on different, but complementary communities • NGI: Federal Mission agencies • UCAID/Internet2: university research and education community Working to interconnect, make interoperable federal research networks and Abilene Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship cont’d Cooperative programs: • NSF High Performance Connections grants: UCAID universities using to connect to achieve Internet2 connectivity • Abilene <-> Energy, NASA network interconnection: being planned to provide high performance access for universities to research labs • Applications: researchers benefit from numerous federal grants that help develop applications Internet2 International Collaborations Building peer to peer relationships Looking for similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding Signed: CANARIE, Stichting SURF, NORDUnet In process: TERENA, SingAREN, JAIRC, APAN and others What kind of collaborations? Network interconnection • Abilene and CA*net2, SURFnet, NORDUnet, etc. Specific project collaboration • QBone • middleware • research/learning applications Technology transfer • mutual industrial participants? Information exchange International task force • to advise our Board, management on issues of international collaborations Greater participation in international groups • CCIRN • GIBN More Information Internet2 • www.internet2.edu Abilene • www.internet2.edu/abilene UCAID • www.ucaid.edu