Internet2 Overview

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Internet2 Overview

• Internet2 Day
• Pennsylvania State University
• Douglas E. Van Houweling
• DVH_at_Internet2.edu

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Overview

• Introduction
• History Background
• Todays Internet
• Organization
• Internet2/NGI
• Applications
• Engineering
• International Efforts
• 1999 ...

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History
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History

• ARPAnet origins with Defense Dept. funding of
  university research
• NSFnet-National Science Foundation
• Merit cooperative agreement in 1987
• Privatization in 1995
• Higher ed planning in 1995/1996
• Are our research and education needs being met by
  todays internet?
• If not, what should we do?

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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
• Assign applications, engineering, and executive
  contacts

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History, cont.

• October 1997 formed the University Corporation
  for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID)

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Todays Internet

• Growing at 10 - 20 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

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Todays 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
• Dont reach the public at large, though!

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Barriers to Progress

• Providers swamped attempting to match capacity to
  demand
• Negative-sum competitive environment inhibits
  investment
• No large scale development environment available
• Advanced applications benefits not demonstrable

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Organization
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Internet2 Goals

• Enable new generation of research and education
  applications
• Re-create leading edge research and education
  network
• Transfer capability to production internet

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Membership

• 132 university members
• 20 affiliate members
• 44 corporate members

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Internet2 Member Universities132 Members as of
October 1998
Hawaii
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Campos Technology Development Spiral
Privatization
Commercialization
Interoperable High Perf RE nets
SprintLink, InternetMCI
21st Century Networking
Agency Nets ANS
ARPAnet
NSFNET
Active Nets wireless WDM
Partnerships
gigabit testbeds
vBNS, ESnet, NREN, DREN
QoS
Research and Development
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Internet2 Corporate Partners

• Lucent Technologies
• MCI Worldcom
• Newbridge Networks
• Nortel Networks
• Qwest Communications
• StarBurst Communications

• 3Com
• Advanced Network Services, Inc.
• ATT
• Cabletron Systems
• Cisco Systems
• FORE
• IBM

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Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

• Bell South
• Packet Engines
• SBC Technology Resources
• StorageTek
• Torrent Technologies

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Internet2 Corporate Members

• Alcatel Telecom
• Ameritech
• Apple Computers
• AppliedTheory
• Bell Atlantic
• Bellcore
• British Telecom
• Deutsche Telekom
• GTE Internetworking
• Hitachi
• IXC Communications
• KDD
• Nexabit Networks
• Nokia Research Center

• Novell
• Pacific Bell
• RR Donnelley
• Siemens
• Sprint
• StorageTek
• Sun Microsystems
• SylvanLearning
• Telebeam
• Williams Communications

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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 Council

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Board of Trustees

• David Ward, Chair (UW-Madison)
• Henry Bienen (Northwestern)
• William Bowen (Mellon Foundation)
• Molly Corbett Broad (UNC)
• Larry Faulkner (UT-Austin)
• Steven Sample (USC)
• Graham Spanier (Penn State)

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Board, cont.

• Gary Augustson (Penn State, Network Planning and
  Policy)
• Tom DeFanti (UI-Chicago, Applications Strategy)
• Larry Landweber (UW-Madison, Network Research
  Liaison)
• Doug Van Houweling (CEO)

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Internet2/NGI Relationship

• Separate but interdependent
• U.S. Next Generation Internet
• Led by Federal government
• Focused on Federal agency needs
• Internet2
• Led by higher education
• Focused on research and education needs

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Internet2/NGI, cont.

• Cooperation examples
• NSF High Performance Connection Grants (100
  institutions connected at speeds 100 times faster
  than today)
• www.cise.nsf.gov/anir
• I2 staff on NGI Joint Engineering Team and High
  Performance Network Applications Team