Annual Update

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Annual Update

• Thomas A. DeFanti
• Principal Investigator, STAR TAP
• Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory

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STAR TAP Global Interconnectivity
STAR TAP is made possible by major funding from
NSF, award ANI-9980480, to UIC. www.startap.net
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Who is Connected to STAR TAP?

• Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative is a US
  Government RD funding program for
  high-performance networks and applications
• STAR TAP is the international component of
  US government agency research networks
• DREN DOD Research Education Network
• ESnet DOE Energy Science research network
• NREN NASA Research Education Network
• NISN NASA Information Science Network
• vBNS NSF very-high-speed Backbone Network Service

www.ngi.gov
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Who is Connected to STAR TAP?

• Internet2 is a consortium of over
  180 universities working in
  partnership with industry and
  government to develop and deploy advanced
  network applications and technologies
• Abilene, an Internet2 backbone network,
  interconnects at STAR TAP (as well as other
  peering locations) with several National Research
  Education Networks with whom Internet2
  collaborates.

www.internet2.edu
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STAR TAPScience Technology And Research Transit
Access Point
Canada
Japan Korea (2) Taiwan Singapore (2) Australia
(2) China
Norway Iceland Sweden Finland Denmark Russia Franc
e Netherlands CERN Israel Ireland Belgium Europe/D
ANTE United Kingdom
Chile, Brazil ANSP, Brazil RNP, Mexico
US Abilene, DREN, ESnet, NISN, NREN, vBNS/vBNS
www.startap.net http//www.ucaid.edu/abilene/html/
itnpeerparticipants.html (Abilene
ITN) http//www.canet3.net/optical/peering_info/in
tl_peering.html (CAnet3 ITN)
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What is STAR TAP?

• Infrastructure
• Engineering support
• Engineering advanced services
• QoS testbeds
• Marketing
• Documentation
• Conference participation
• Host annual meetings
• Education and outreach
• Team building
• Liaison to network consortia
• Application communities

• Connection Point
• Racks at AADS NAP
• front/back views

Managed by UIC in collaboration with Argonne
National Laboratory, Northwestern (MREN/iCAIR)
and Indiana University operated by Ameritech
Advanced Data Services
www.startap.net
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STAR TAP Engineering Support

• STAR TAP Engineers
• Global NOC

www.startap.net/ENGINEERING noc.startap.net
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STAR TAP Engineering Advanced Services

• IPv4 Router
• IPv6 Router (6TAP with ESnet)
• Multicast
• Globus Middleware/Grid Services Package
  (with Argonne/ISI)
• Network Measurement (NLANR AMP)
• Web Caching (NLANR)
• QoS testbeds
• Application-level network performance metrics
• Distributed STAR TAP (Teleglobe, CW)
• Abilene/CAnet3 International Transit Networks
• DWDM (optical switching with CAnet4 and SURFnet)

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STAR TAP Documentation

• Internet Dissemination
• www.startap.net
• General information
• Engineering information
• Application information
• Publications

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Team Building iGrid 2000 at INET 2000July
18-21, 2000, Yokohama, Japan

• 14 regions Canada, CERN, Germany, Greece, Japan,
  Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain,
  Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA
• 24 demonstrations featuring technical innovations
  in tele-immersion, large datasets, distributed
  computing, remote instrumentation, collaboration,
  streaming media, human/computer interfaces,
  digital video and high-definition television, and
  grid architecture development, and application
  advancements in science, engineering, cultural
  heritage, distance education, media
  communications, and art and architecture

www.startap.net/igrid2000
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STAR TAP ActivitiesAnnual Advisory Committee
Meetings
STAR TAP International Advisory Committee
Meeting INET 2000, Yokohama, July
2000 www.startap.net/ABOUT/meetings.html
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• For more information
• www.startap.net

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