Internet2

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www.internet2.edu
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Internet2 an Overview

• Heather Boyles
• Director, International Relations
• heather_at_internet2.edu
• Ana Preston
• Program Manager, International Relations
• Apreston_at_internet2.edu

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Outline

• Background why and who?
• Focus areas and activities what?
• International partnerships how?
• Your questions..

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Success of the Internet
Millions of People
SourceNua Internet Surveys
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History

• ARPAnet origins
• 1987 -- NSFnet
• Privatization in 1995
• 1996
• Telecomm Act
• The WWW explodes
• Federal Next Generation Internet Initiative
• NSF provides grant funding to universities for
  network infrastructure
• Internet2 founded
• 1999
• Abilene in production

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Todays Internet Doesnt

• Provide reliable end-to-end performance
• Encourage cooperation on new capabilities
• Allow testing of new technologies
• Support development of revolutionary
  applications

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Internet2 Mission and Goals

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows Internet.
• Enable new generation of applications
• Create leading edge RE network capability
• Transfer technology and experience to the global
  production Internet

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Internet Development Spiral
Commercialization
Privatization
Todays Internet
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships
Source Ivan Moura Campos
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Internet2 Universities190 Universities as of
January 2002
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Internet2 Corporate Partners
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Additional Membership

• Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members
• Over 40 Affiliate Members
• Government Research Agencies
• National Institutes of Health
• National Science Foundation
• NASA
• NOAA
• USGS (Earth Resources Observations Systems)

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Organization

• Member Liaisons
• Executive
• Engineering
• Applications
• Middleware
• UCAID not-for-profit corporation
• Staff of 80
• Large number leased from universities
• Facilitate, coordinate, provide collective
  infrastructure where required

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Leadership

• University presidents/chancellors are the voting
  representatives
• Strong board
• Advisory councils with board seats
• Applications Strategy
• Network Planning and Policy
• Network Research Liaison
• Industry Liaison Council

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Why University Leadership?

• The Internet came from the academic community
• Stanford -- the Internet protocols
• NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet
• CERN -- the WWW protocols
• University of Illinois -- the Web browser
• Universities research and education mission
  require an advanced Internet and have
  demonstrated they can develop it

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Internet2 Partnerships

• Internet2 universities are recreating the
  partnerships that fostered the Internet in its
  infancy
• Industry
• Government
• International

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Internet2/U.S. Government Separate but
Interdependent

• U.S. Next Generation Internet
• Led by U.S. government agencies
• Focused on agency needs
• Internet2
• Led by higher education
• Focused on research and education needs
• Interdependent
• Government agency funding to research,
  connections, applications development
• Science and engineering funded projects
  increasingly dependent on persistent,
  high-performance infrastructure provided by
  Internet2

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Internet2 Goals

• Enable new generation of applications
• Re-create leading edge RE network capability
• Transfer technology and experience to the global
  production Internet

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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How Internet2 works

• Universities commit
• Engineering lead connect university to rest of
  Internet2 community, deploy new technologies
• Applications lead support apps development on
  campus
• Middleware architect work with I2MI to implement
  middleware infrastructure
• Working groups
• Of expert/interested individuals within community
• Chaired by volunteer (sometimes by staff)
• Staff support

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How Internet2 works, contd

• Projects, e.g. Abilene
• Executive team and Project team
• Qwest, Cicso, Nortel
• Indiana University supplies NOC
• Projects, e.g. Shibboleth
• IBM providing coding
• Designed by MACE (volunteers from community)
• Supported by Staff
• Internet2 Staff
• Primarily facilitate, coordinate, flywheel
• 80

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Different Disciplines/Contexts

• Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
• Health care
• Business/Law
• Administration

• Library
• Classroom
• Clinic
• Office
• Laboratory
• Dorm room

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Application Attributes

• Interactive collaboration
• Real-time access to remote resources

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Remote Scanning Electron Microscope

• The University of Michigan

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Philips XL30
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Real-Time Tele-Operation of Remote
EquipmentNorth Carolina State
Universityhttp//CARL.ce.ncsu.edu/
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Tele-vator

• Excavation backhoe operated remotely over
  Internet2
• Used in hazardous rescue situations
• Sophisticated two-way feedback using stereovision

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Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory

• University of Michigan

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Attributes, cont.

• Large-scale, multi-site computation and data
  mining
• Shared virtual reality
• Any combination of the above

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Grid Projects
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What is the Grid?

• Global resources available to communities of
  researchers
• The protocols, services, and applications that
  enable new forms of collaboration

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Grid Resources
Instruments
Libraries
Workstations
People
Data sets
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Examples

• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
• Collaboration environment for earthquake
  researchers (e.g., structural engineers,
  geotechnical and tsunami scientists)

• Grid Physics Network
• Petabyte scale environment for data-intensive
  applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan
  Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer
  Gravitational Wave Observatory)

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Grid Projects

• NEESGrid
• www.neesgrid.org
• GriPhyN
• www.griphyn.org
• S/W infrastructure
• www.gridforum.org
• Research Sensornets
• Networked nanotechnology

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High Fidelity Digital Video/Audio
Teaching Music
University of Oklahoma
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Video Futures

• Tele-immersive Office of the Future

Source University of North Carolina
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The Internet2 Commons

• An effort to encourage and support large-scale,
  distributed collaboration for the research and
  education community
• Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and
  group-to-group collaboration
• Supporting personal communications, meetings,
  conferences, and teaching and learning
• For Internet2 members and their international
  counterparts

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Data Sharing
Instant Messaging
Voice/IP
Electronic Notebooks
Peer to Peer
Collaboratories
Others
H.323
VRVS
Videoconferencing Technologies
AG
MPEG2
Others
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Internet2 Commons Work

• Initial focus on H.323
• Set of MCU equipment available to members
• Training and certifying Commons Coordinators on
  campus
• Working with VIDE on numbering/directory schema
• Next move
• Additional collaborative technologies (e.g. T.120)

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Middleware

Applications
Authentication, Identification, Authorization,
Directories, Security
Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network
Middleware)
Advanced Physical Network Infrastructure
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Middleware
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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

• Focus on core middleware as infrastructure
• Interoperability
• 190 universities will never buy the same software
• Getting stuff implemented
• Best practices
• Integrate across applications
• Discourage islands of middleware infrastructure
• E.g. core middleware just for this particular
  grid project
• Enable community to share resources
• Grid, remote instruments, shared classes

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I2MI core middleware activities

• Identifiers
• Early Adopters - survey/docs about how campuses
  are assigning and relating identifiers
• Authentication
• WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on) share expertise,
  code
• Directories
• DoDHE Dir. of Directories for HE
  inter-institutional directory searching, using
  eduPerson and LDAP Recipe
• eduPerson an LDAP object class that includes
  widely-used person attributes in higher education
• LDAP Recipe promote common design
• Authorization
• Certificates and PKI
• Internet2 PKI Labs

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Engineering

• Scalable IP Multicast
• http//www.internet2.edu/multicast/
• IPv6
• Quality of Service
• End to end at IP layer
• Network Security
• Measurement
• End to End Performance

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Native Multicast
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Native Multicast
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Internet2 Network Infrastructure

• Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity
  today, upgrade to 10Gbps in progress
• GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance
  aggregation points
• Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the
  desktop

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Download of The Matrix DVD(Comparison of the
Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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Network Architecture
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Typical Internet2 University Network Connection
University Campus
University Campus
155 Mbps 2.4 Gbps
Department
155 Mbps 2.4 Gbps
100 Mbps
Regional Network622 Mbps-2.4 Gbps
Lab or Classroom
155 Mbps 2.4 Gbps
University Campus
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Internet2 GigaPoPs28 as of October 2001
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Internet2 Backbone Networks

• vBNS NSF project in cooperative agreement with
  MCI (now Worldcom)
• Funding ended April 2001
• Program extended to April 2003, but no NSF
  funding
• Abilene UCAID project with support of Qwest,
  Cisco, Nortel, Indiana University
• Renewed Qwest support through 2006
• Future backbones?
• Discussions with various national fiber providers

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Internet2 Backbone Networks
Donna Cox,Robert Patterson, NCSA
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Abilene NetworkCore Map, October 2001
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Abilene Network Logical Map
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Internet2 International Goals

• Ensure global interoperability
• of the next generation of Internet technologies
  and applications
• Enable global collaboration
• in research and education providing/promoting the
  development of an advanced networking environment
  internationally

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International Partners

• Build effective partnerships in other countries
• With organizations of similar goals/objectives
  and similar constituencies
• Mechanism Memoranda of Understanding

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MoU in brief

• Provide/promote interconnectivity between
  communities
• Collaborate on technology development and
  deployment
• Facilitate collaboration between members on
  applications
• Encourage technology transfer

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Internet2 International Partnership

• International Task Force
• Representatives of Internet2 International
  Partners
• Meets twice per year at Internet2 Member Meetings
• Cross-participation in working groups, mailing
  lists, projects

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International MoU Partners
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Abilene International Peering
09 January 2002
STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC, Canet3, CERN,
CERnet, FASTnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2,
NORDUnet, RNP2, SURFnet, SingAREN, TAnet2
Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC, CAnet3,
TANET2
NYCM BELNET, CAnet3, GEANT, HEANET, JANET,
NORDUnet
SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE
LOSA UNINET
OC3-OC12
AMPATH ANSP, REUNA, RNP2 RETINA
San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI
El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI
ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, RENATER,
RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN,
RedIRIS
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Abilene ITN service

• Transit to vBNS and non-US peers of Abilene
• Example
• Peer with Abilene
• Send/receive traffic to all Abilene participants,
  plus
• vBNS participants
• All non-US network peers of Abilene (over 25)

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Americas

• Canada, U.S. and Mexico connected at multiple
  points
• Connections via Miami to Argentina, Brazil, Chile
• Building infrastructure between research and
  education communities

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Americas Connectivity(March 2002)
Country Network BW(mbps) Interconnect
Canada CAnet3 1310 S.T., Pacific Wave, NYC
Mexico RED-CUDI 255 Tijuana-San Diego (CALREN2), Juarez/El Paso
Chile REUNA 45 AmPATH
Brazil RNP2 45 AmPATH
Brazil ANSP 45 AmPATH
Argentina RETINA2 45 AmPATH
Puerto Rico To Abilene-U.S. Via South Florida GigaPoP
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CAnethttp//www.canarie.ca

• Currently building CAnet4 network
• Wavelength-based
• Connects provincial networks

Source Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE
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Mexicohttp//www.cudi.edu.mx

• Connecting 30 members in Mexico at 155mbps
• Connecting to U.S.
• via Tijuana San Diego (with transit from
  CALREN2 to Abilene) at 155mbps
• 100mbps between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso
• Convenios internacionales with CANARIE,
  Internet2/UCAID, CENIC and REUNA

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AmPATHhttp//ampath.fiu.edu

• Florida International University with Global
  Crossing as primary partner
• Global Crossing provides potential to connect 10
  countries at 45mbps each
• Service area includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
  Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, US
  Virgin Islands, Venezuela
• An Internet2 international interconnection point
• Facilitates peering with Abilene, other research
  and education networks
• Open to connections from other carriers
• NAP of the Americas, downtown Miami

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Chilehttp//www.reuna.cl

• Red Universitaria Nacional REUNA
• 10 POPs from Arica to Valdivia
• 155 Mbps ATM/SDH Network
• Centrally operated from Santiago
• REUNA3 Gigabit Backbone Project

Geographical Distribution of REUNA2 POPs
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Brazilhttp//www.rnp.br

• Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP
• Connecting 27 Brazilian states at 155 Mbps.
• RNP2 AmPATH via DS-3

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Argentinahttp//www.retina.ar

• Red Teleinformática Académica
• Red RETINA
• Connecting 25 institutions
• Retina2 via AMPATH

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Costa Ricahttp//www.crnet.cr

• National Research Network - CRNet

• Internet2 connectivity possibly through Los
  Arcos

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More Internet2 Information

• On the Web
• www.internet2.edu
• Email
• apreston_at_internet2.edu
• heather_at_internet2.edu

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