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The Internet2 Project
Heather Boyles
[email protected]
NCTT Technology Transfer Conference
Springfield, MA
April 8, 1999
Overview
History
Goals
Members
Applications
Engineering
Architecture
Abilene
Technology Transfer
History
ARPAnet origins
1987 -- NSFnet
• Privatization in 1995
Higher ed planning in 1995/1996
• Are our research and education needs
being met by today’s internet?
History of Internet2
September 1995: Monterey Futures Conference
August 1996: Cheyenne Mountain Workshop
October 1996: Internet2 Project formed
January 1997: First Internet2 Member Meeting
October 1997: UCAID formed
April 1998: Abilene Project Announced
September 1998: Middleware Initiative Announced
January 1999: Abilene in Production
Commercialization
Privatization
21st Century
Networking
SprintLink
InternetMCI
US Govt
Networks
ANS
Interoperable
High Performance
Research &Education
Networks
ARPAnet
Active
Nets
wireless
WDM
gigabit
testbeds
Research and
Development
NSFNET
Quality of Service
(QoS)
Internet2, Abilene, vBNS
Advanced US Govt Networks
Partnerships
Internet2 Project Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network
capability
Transfer capability to the global
production Internet
Internet2 Universities
146 Members as of March 1999
University of Puerto Rico not shown
Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network
& Services
Ameritech
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
Cisco Systems
FORE Systems
IBM
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Packet Engines
Qwest
Communications
Sprint
StarBurst
Communications
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South
SBC Technology
Resources
StorageTek
Torrent Networking
Technologies
Internet2 Corporate Members
 Alcatel Telecom
 Apple Computers, Inc.
 AppliedTheory Communications
Inc.
 Bell Atlantic
 Bellcore
 British Telecommunications
 Compaq
 Deutsche Telekom
 Fujitsu Laboratories of America
 GTE Internetworking
 Hitachi
 IXC Communications Inc.
 KDD
 Litton Network Access Systems
 Nexabit Networks
 Nippon Telephone and Telegraph
(NTT)
 Nokia Research Center
 Novell
 Pacific Bell
Project Oxygen, Ltd.
 RR Donnelley and Sons
Company
 Siemens
 Sun Microsystems
 Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc.
 TeleBeam Inc.
 Teleglobe
 TransMedia Communications
 Williams Communications Group
 WorldPort Communications Inc.
Advanced Internet Benefits
Richer content through higher
bandwidth
• Video, audio
• Virtual reality
• Dynamic not static
More interactivity via minimal delay
Reliable content delivery through
quality of service model
Applications and Engineering
Applications
Motivate
Enables
Engineering
Internet2 Applications
“Enable new generation of applications”
Deliver qualitative and quantitative
improvements in the conduct of:
• Research
• Teaching
• Learning
Require advanced networking
Many Disciplines and Contexts
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration
…
Instruction
Collaboration
Streaming video
Distributed
computation
Data mining
Virtual reality
Digital libraries
…
Virtual Laboratories
Interactive
research and
instruction
Real-time access
to remote
scientific
instruments
Images courtesy of the
University of Michigan
Virtual Laboratories
Real-time access
to remote
instruments
University of
Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh
Supercomputing
Center
3-D Brain Mapping
Digital Libraries
Video and audio
Indiana University
Variations Project
Distributed Computation
Multi-site
databases
Old Dominion
University
Chesapeake Bay
Simulation
Image courtesy of Old Dominion University
Distributed Computation
Large-scale
computation
University
Corporation
for
Atmospheric
Research
Image courtesy of UCAR
Teleimmersion
Shared virtual
reality
University of
Illinois at
Chicago
Virtual
Temporal
Bone
Images courtesy
Univ of IllinoisChicago
Middleware Initiative
Objective: a “Services Rich”
Network Environment
Functional services available to
users and developers
• Enabling new collaborations and applications
• Supported as production quality
• An integrated framework
Scaled to the size of the research
and education community
Applications:
Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions
Standard APIs
Middleware:
Security, Directory, Quality of Service,
Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting,
Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast
Standard APIs
Operating system and network services
Interoperable Protocols
Technology Scope
 QoS
 Digital video/audio
 Security
 Collaboration
 Directories
 Multicast
 File systems
 Measurement
 Remote instruments
 IMS
 Transaction systems
 Meta-computing
 Management
 IP telephony
 Accounting/billing
 E-commerce
 Object brokers
 Search mechanisms
 Printing
Engineering Objectives
“Re-create leading edge R&E network capability”
It’s about end-to-end, to-the-desktop
services
• campus infrastructure
• gigapop infrastructure
• inter-gigapop infrastructure
Establish quality of service (QoS)
Support native multicast
Network Architecture
GigaPoP
One
GigaPoP
Two
I2 Interconnect
Cloud
GigaPoP
Three
GigaPoP
Four
“Gigabit capacity point of presence” an
aggregation point for regional connectivity
GigaPoPs, cont.
University A
I2 Interconnect
Cloud
E.g. vBNS, Abilene
GigaPoP
One
Regional Network
University B
University C
Commodity
Internet
Connections
Internet2 GigaPoPs
Abilene Project
Provide advanced network testbed
Support Internet2 applications
development
Demonstrate next generation
operational and quality of service
capabilities
Create facilities for network
research
Abilene Network
February 1999
Seattle
NGIX North
Startap
New York
NGIX West
Sacramento
Chicago
Denver
NGIX East
Kansas City
D.C.
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Peering Point
Abilene Router Node
Operational January 1999
Planned 1999
Houston
Abilene Characteristics
2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs,
increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192)
Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or
155 Mbps (OC3)
IP over Sonet technology
Access PoPs very close to almost all
of the anticipated university
gigaPoPs
For UCAID Members
Involvement in the decisions
Responsive to continuing needs
Driven by member research
Potential for increasing connectivity
for all UCAID university members
wanting to participate in Research
Goals.
Now I know what it is -- but why
should I care?
“Transfer capability to the global
production Internet”
“Coming Soon!”
Technology Transfer
• Regional community role
• Industry role
Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship
Similar technical objectives
Focused on different, but complementary
communities
• NGI: Federal Mission agencies
• UCAID/Internet2: university research and education
community
Working to interconnect, make
interoperable federal research networks
and Abilene
Internet2 International
Collaborations
Building peer to peer relationships
Looking for similar goals/objectives and
similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
Signed: CANARIE, Stichting SURF,
NORDUnet
In process: TERENA, SingAREN, JAIRC,
APAN and others
More Information
Me: Heather Boyles
• [email protected]
• +1 202 331 5342
Internet2
• www.internet2.edu