ISRC Future Technology Briefing:

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ISRC Future Technology Briefing
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Todays Internet

• Dramatic growth of users and devices
• Restrictive IP addressing systems
• Unreliable performance
• Subnetworks with varying speeds
• No packet prioritization
• Unicast communication system

Source 12.32.10.154/applications/ ip_multicast
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Internet2

• A university-led non-profit consortium project
  to
• Create and sustain network capability for
  research community
• Enable advanced technology development
• Transfer new technology to the existing Internet
• Operated by the University Corporation for
  Advanced Development (UCAID)
• Diverse Members (www.internet2.edu)

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Benefits of Internet2

• Speed
• Operate at 2.5 Gbps today and are expected to
  grow to 10Gbps
• Consider downloading the movie The Matrix,

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Benefits of Internet2

• Internet Protocol Version 6 (Ipv6)
• 128-bit IP address system
• 3.4 x 1038 IP addresses
• 5.7 x 1028 addresses per person
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Multicasting

Source 12.32.10.154/applications/ ip_multicast
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Internet2 Backbone Networks
Source www1.ics.uci.edu/develop/rs2001/teitelbau
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Application Tele-immersion

• Virtual meetings among institutions
• Tele-diagnosis through sharing of patients 3D
  images at the University of Illinois, Chicago
• Remote concert performance at the University of
  Oklahoma

Source www.internet2.edu, www1.ics.uci.edu/devel
op/rs2001/teitelbaum
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Application Virtual Laboratories

• Distributed nanomanipulator at the University of
  North Carolina
• 3-D Brain Mapping at the University of Pittsburgh
• Space Physics Aeronomy Research Collaboratory
  (SPARC) at the University of Michigan

Source www1.ics.uci.edu/develop/rs2001/teitelbau
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Application Digital Libraries

• Digital music library at the Indiana University
• Digital video library project at Carnegie-Mellon
  University
• Digital library of vertebrate morphology at the
  University of Texas, Austin

Source www.dlib.indiana.edu, www.informedia.cs.cm
u.edu, www.dli2.nsf.gov
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Costs in Implementing Internet2

• New infrastructure
• Financial commitment
• University participants 500,000/year
• Corporate partners 1 million/3-year
• Corporate sponsors 100,000/3-year
• Connection to the Abilene network 110,000/year

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Besides Internet2

• Next Generation Internet Initiative (NGI)
• Government led
• Focus on infrastructure development
• Collaborate with Internet2
• Geant
• European based
• Compatible with Internet2

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How Can My Firm Benefit from Internet2?

• Some capabilities such as multicasting may come
  as early as 2002
• Transfer of new technologies developed to the
  commercial Internet by 2005

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An Example Ford and the University of Michigan
Business School

• Multi-site TV-quality videoconferencing
• Potential benefits for Ford
• First-hand experience with Internet2
• Harness the technology to improve products and
  services

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At the University of Houston

• Texas GigaPoP
• High performance network
• Computational steering
• Interactive collaborative virtual reality
• Problem solving environment
• Research channel

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At the University of Houston

• Virtual reality lab

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At the University of Houston

• Our industrial partners include
• Compaq
• SUN
• IBM
• HP
• Cicso
• Alcatel

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