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The Internet2 Project Heather Boyles [email protected] NCTT Technology Transfer Conference Springfield, MA April 8, 1999 Overview History Goals Members Applications Engineering Architecture Abilene Technology Transfer History ARPAnet origins 1987 -- NSFnet • Privatization in 1995 Higher ed planning in 1995/1996 • Are our research and education needs being met by today’s internet? 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 Internet2 Universities 146 Members as of March 1999 University of Puerto Rico not shown Internet2 Corporate Partners 3Com Advanced Network & Services Ameritech AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE Systems IBM ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies MCI Worldcom Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks Packet Engines Qwest Communications Sprint StarBurst Communications Internet2 Corporate Sponsors Bell South SBC Technology Resources StorageTek Torrent Networking Technologies Internet2 Corporate Members Alcatel Telecom Apple Computers, Inc. AppliedTheory Communications Inc. Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecommunications Compaq Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu Laboratories of America GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications Inc. KDD Litton Network Access Systems Nexabit Networks Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) Nokia Research Center Novell Pacific Bell Project Oxygen, Ltd. RR Donnelley and Sons Company Siemens Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. TeleBeam Inc. Teleglobe TransMedia Communications Williams Communications Group WorldPort Communications Inc. Advanced Internet Benefits Richer content through higher bandwidth • Video, audio • Virtual reality • Dynamic not static More interactivity via minimal delay Reliable content delivery through quality of service model Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering 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 Middleware Initiative Objective: a “Services Rich” Network Environment Functional services available to users and developers • Enabling new collaborations and applications • Supported as production quality • An integrated framework Scaled to the size of the research and education community Applications: Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions Standard APIs Middleware: Security, Directory, Quality of Service, Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting, Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast Standard APIs Operating system and network services Interoperable Protocols Technology Scope QoS Digital video/audio Security Collaboration Directories Multicast File systems Measurement Remote instruments IMS Transaction systems Meta-computing Management IP telephony Accounting/billing E-commerce Object brokers Search mechanisms Printing 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 February 1999 Seattle NGIX North Startap New York NGIX West Sacramento Chicago Denver NGIX East Kansas City D.C. Indianapolis Los Angeles Atlanta Peering Point Abilene Router 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 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. 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 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 More Information Me: Heather Boyles • [email protected] • +1 202 331 5342 Internet2 • www.internet2.edu
