Internet2

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Internet2
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Internet2 Mission

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows Internet.

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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 Universities202 University Members,
March 2003
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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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Additional Participation

• Over 50 Internet2 Corporate Members
• Over 30 Affiliate Members
• Over 30 International Partners

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Internet2 Corporate Partners
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Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

• Arbor Networks
• BellSouth
• Ford Motor Company
• Foundry Networks
• inSORS Integrated Communications

• Ixia
• Opnix, Inc.
• Polycom Worldwide
• RADVision
• VBrick Systems

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Internet2 Corporate Members

• Community of Science, Inc.
• EBSCO Information Services
• Eli Lilly Corporation
• Enterasys Networks, Inc.
• Fujitsu Laboratories of America
• General Motors
• Hewlett-Packard
• JalaaM Tehcnologies

• Advanced Infrastructure Ventures
• American Fiber Systems
• Apple Computer, Inc.
• Aventis
• Blackboard, Inc
• C-SPAN
• Ceyba, Inc.
• CIENA Corporation

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Internet2 Affiliate Members

• Altarum
• American Distance Education Consortium
• Association of Universities for Research in
  Astronomy (AURA)
• CENIC
• CERN
• Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
• Cleveland Institute of MusicCleveland Museum of
  Art

• Department of Commerce, Boulder
• Desert Research Institute
• EDUCAUSE
• Food and Drug Administration
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications
  System (IHETS)

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Sponsored Education Group Participants
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People on the Internet
Millions of People
SourceNua Internet Surveys
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Yesterdays Internet

• Thousands of users
• Remote login, file transfer
• Interconnect mainframe computers
• Applications capitalize on underlying technology

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Todays Internet

• Millions of users
• Web, email, low-quality audio video
• Interconnect personal computers and servers
• Applications adapt to underlying technology

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Tomorrows Internet

• Billions of users and devices
• Convergence of todays applications with
  multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV)
• Interconnect personal computers, servers, and
  embedded computers
• New technologies enable unanticipated
  applications (and create new challenges)

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Why Internet2?

• The Internet was not designed for
• Millions of users
• Congestion
• Multimedia
• Real time interaction
• But, only the Internet can
• Accommodate explosive growth
• Enable convergence of information work, mass
  media, and human collaboration

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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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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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Internet Development Spiral
Commercialization
Privatization
Todays Internet
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships