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Internet2: what is it and why
should you care?
Heather Boyles
[email protected]
Institutional Opportunities in Advanced
Networking
Austin, TX
Overview
History
Goals
Members
Applications
Engineering
Architecture
Abilene
Technology Transfer
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
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
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
Internet2 Applications
“Enable new generation of 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
Engineering Objectives
“Re-create leading edge R&E network capability”
It’s about end-to-end, to-the-desktop
services
• campus infrastructure
• gigapop infrastructure
• inter-gigapop infrastructure
Establish quality of service (QoS)
Support native multicast
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,
peering with vBNS
January 1999: Initial group of
members in production mode
December 1999: Approximately 65
members plan to be connected
Now I know what it is -- but why
should I care?
“Transfer capability to the global
production Internet”
“Coming Soon!”
Technology Transfer
• Regional community role
• Industry role
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
More Information
Me: Heather Boyles
• [email protected]
• +1 202 331 5342
Internet2
• www.internet2.edu