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Recent Developments
in Networking
Networking Resources for
Collaborative Research in the
Southeast
AAAS Research Competitiveness Program
Douglas E. Van Houweling
[email protected]
Overview
History
Today’s Internet
Barriers to Progress
Advanced Internet Projects
Applications
Internet2 -- What Is It?
Network Requirements and Abilene
Global Issues
Trends
Comments & Questions
History
ARPAnet origins
NSFnet
• Research and development cycle
• Privatization in 1995
Higher ed planning in 1995/1996
• Are our research and education needs
being met by today’s internet?
• If not, what should we do?
History, cont.
October 1996 I2 organizing meeting
• 34 institutions in attendance; all 34
signed up
Membership commitment
• $25,000/year in membership dues
• I2 connectivity and campus upgrades
History, cont.
University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development
• Established in October 1997
• Parent organization for the Internet2 and
Abilene Projects
Commercialization
Privatization
21st Century
Networking
SprintLink
InternetMCI
Agency
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
ESNET, NREN, DREN
Partnerships
Today’s Internet
Growing at 10 - 15% per month
Challenges to higher education
• The “world wide wait”
• Human interaction awkward
• Virtual meetings and seminars
• Shared authoring
• Browsing publications
• Distributed large scale computing and data base
efforts not feasible
Today’s Internet
Inadequate for mission-critical
applications
• Authentication
• “Best efforts” not good enough
Intranets and Extranets instead
• Match capacity and demand
• Provide a more secure environment
• Don’t reach the public at large, though!
Barriers to Progress
Providers swamped attempting to
match capacity to demand
Advanced applications can’t be
deployed
No large scale development
environment available
Negative-sum competitive
environment inhibits investment
Advanced Internet
Projects
Next Generation Internet (NGI)
• Focused on:
• Federal mission agency needs
• Maintaining US Internet leadership
Internet2
• Focused on:
• Higher education needs
• Moving the public Internet to the next level
Advanced Internet
Projects
The whole is greater than the sum of
the parts
• NGI provides partial financial support for
university Internet2 projects
• Internet2 and NGI coordinate technology
development and deployment
• Industry has strong incentive to implement
resulting capabilities
Application Attributes
Large-scale, multi-site computation
and database processing
Real-time access to remote scientific
instruments
Interactive research collaboration
and instruction
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of the above
3D Brain Mapping:
“Watching the Brain
in Action”
University of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Chesapeake Bay Simulation
Source: Old Dominion University and University of Illinois-Chicago
Remote Scanning
Electron Microscope
University of Michigan
Philips XL30
American Sign Language
and English Captions
Gallaudet University
Georgetown University
Distributed Image
SpreadSheet
University of MissouriColumbia
Upper Atmospheric
Research Collaboratory
University of Michigan
Teleimmersion
University of Illinois-Chicago
University of Illinois-NCSA
Old Dominion University
The CAVE
Source: University of Illinois-Chicago
Immersadesk
Source: University of Illinois-Chicago
Virtual Temporal Bone
Source: University of Illinois-Chicago
What it Takes
Engaging the applications
developers
Building a network that delivers the
end-to-end functionality required by
the applications
Internet2:
What Is It?
The University Corporation for
Advanced Internet Development
(UCAID)
• The Internet2 Project
• The Abilene Project
• Future Projects….
UCAID Mission
Provide leadership and direction for
advanced networking development
within the university community.
UCAID Organization &
Budget
University CEO’s are voting
representatives for regular members
Structured as an agile organization
capable of responding to rapid change.
3 Councils with Board seats
• Applications
• Policy & Operations
• Network Research
Member dues provide income base
UCAID Board
 Chair -- David Ward -- Chancellor, University of
Wisconsin/Madison
 Henry Bienen -- President, Northwestern University
 William Bowen -- President, Mellon Foundation
 Molly Corbett Broad -- President, University of North Carolina
 Larry Faulkner -- President, University of Texas/Austin
 Steven Sample -- President, University of Southern California
 Graham Spanier -- President, Penn State University
 Gary Augustson -- Chair, Network Planning and Policy Council
 Tom DiFanti -- Chair, Applications Strategy Council
 Larry Landweber -- Chair, Network Research Liaison Council
 Doug Van Houweling -- President and CEO
Membership
Number
• 126 Regular, 20 Affiliate, 30 Corporate
• open application process
• ~$1m/year regular member commitment
Classes
• Regular, Affiliate, Corporate
• Regular members are only voting class of members
Internet2 Member Universities
127 Members as of May 1998
Anchorage
Juneau
Alaska
Honolulu
Hawaii
Corporate Members/Partners*
• 3Com*
• Advanced Network &
Services*
• Alcatel
• Apple
• Ameritech
• AT&T*
• Bay Networks*
• Bell Atlantic
• Bellcore
• Cabletron*
• Cisco Systems*
• Deutsche Telekom
• Digital Equipment
Corporation
• FORE Systems*
• GTE Internetworking
• IBM*
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Lucent Technologies*
MCI Communications*
Newbridge Networks*
Nokia
Nortel*
Novell
Packet Engines
Perot Systems
Qwest Communications*
SBC Technology Resources
Siemens
Sprint
StarBurst Communications*
Sun Microsystems
Torrent Technologies
William Communications
Internet2 Mission
Facilitate and coordinate the
development, deployment, operation
and technology transfer of advanced,
network-based applications and
network services to further U.S.
leadership in research and higher
education and accelerate the
availability of new services and
applications on the Internet.
Internet2 Goals
Enable new generation of
applications
Re-create leading edge R&E
network
capability
Transfer capability to the global
production Internet
Applications Priorities
Focus on content
• Educational
• Research publications
• Mass media -> personalized media
Attack middleware challenge
• Seek 100% coverage of interoperable scalable
middleware
• In collaboration with industry members
Applications and Engineering
Applications
Motivate
Enables
Engineering
Network Requirements
End-to-end performance guarantees
• Across multiple providers
Application-based performance
Authentication & security
New business models
• Performance related pricing
Single-Lane Road ->
Multi-lane Superhighway
• Special-purpose lanes
• Access control
• Tolls where appropriate
Solutions
Quality of Service (QoS)
• Enable advanced applications without
brute force
• Multi-cloud and multi-provider
Support for Internet-based broadcast
• Scalable
New middleware:
• Connect network to application
• Support application-based charging
• Authenticate users
Support for large delay - bandwidth
products
Bigger pipes
Internet2 Values
in the QoS area
Support applications
Ensure multi-cloud (multi-carrier)
QoS
Ensure multi-vendor (open
standards) QoS
Quality of Service Challenge
A
B
• Does the QoS approach support the applications?
• Are there implementations that work? Only one?
• If cloud ‘A’ and cloud ‘B’ both implement QoS, does the
combined A+B catenation implement QoS?
Internet2 Architecture
Interconnects: connects all the gigaPoPs to each other
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GigaPoPs: connect universities to the Interconnects and
to other services
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Universities: upgrade their LANs to more than 500
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Project Abilene
Announced 14 April
Abilene and Other Networks
A second Internet2 backbone -- the
vBNS is the first.
Intention to establish peering links
with other research networks
• Working with NSF on connection policies
(grant allocation and conditions of use)
• Federal networks
• International links
Project Abilene Objectives
High availability backbone network
for advanced research applications
Separate network to test advanced
network capabilities
Separate network to do network
research
Project Team
Overall direction by UCAID
Qwest Corporation
Nortel (Northern Telecom)
Cisco Systems
Open to other contributors
Collaborate with related efforts in
network or applications research
Abilene Characteristics
2.4 gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs,
increasing to 9.6 gbps (OC192)
Most connections at 622 (OC12) or
155 mbps (OC3)
IP over Sonet technology
Access PoPs very close to almost all
of the anticipated university
GigaPoPs
Schedule
Spring ’98: Cost/enrollment
discussions
Fall ’98: demos and pre-production
Initial group connected by Jan ’99
Others as mutually planned in ’99
Computer Science &
Network Research
Support
Provides foundation for supporting
the continuous contribution of the
higher education community to
Internet development
May be able to share elements of the
inter-gigapop infrastructure for
network research activities
Global Issues
Focus on researcher partnerships
working on advanced applications
Cooperate on QoS, etc. to maintain
global interoperability
Use STARTAP (Science, Technology,
and Research Transit Access Point)
for connectivity
International Membership Policy
• MOU’s with organization comparable to
UCAID
• Announcement at INET ‘98
• Establishment of International Membership
Committee
CANARIE Relationship
Canadian Network for the
Advancement of Research, Industry
and Education
Sponsors CA*net II
Memorandum of Understanding
executed 10/8/97
STARTAP Connection Operational
Scholarly Collaboration Initiated
• Digital Music
• Teleimmersion
Trend -Information -> Collaboration
Today’s Internet focuses on access
to and delivery of information and
entertainment
Tomorrow’s Internet will support
human collaboration in an
information and media rich
environment
Dramatic implications for the cable
industry
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