Transcript 990209-LSN-DVH

Internet2: directions for
1999 and opportunities for
collaboration with NGI
Doug Van Houweling
[email protected]
LSN Meeting
9 February 1999
Internet2 Project Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network
capability
Transfer capability to the global
production Internet
Progress
2.5 years ago:
Internet2 Project formed
October 1996
1.5 year ago:
UCAID Incorporated
October 1997
10 months ago:
Abilene Launched
April 1998
Today
141 universities
47 corporations
7 gigapops connected to vBNS
Abilene in service w/ 20 institutions
connected
Abilene peering with vBNS, ESnet
QoS -- QBone initiative launched
Middleware initiative launched
UCAID Member Universities
141 Members as of January 1999
University of Puerto Rico not shown
Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network
& Services
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
Cisco Systems
FORE
IBM
ITC^DeltaCom
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest
Communications
StarBurst
Communications
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South
Packet Engines
SBC Technology
Resources
StorageTek
Torrent
Technologies
Internet2 Corporate Members
 Alcatel Telecom
 Ameritech
 Apple Computer
 AppliedTheory
 Bell Atlantic
 Bellcore
 British Telecom
 Compaq/DEC
 Deutsche Telekom
 Fujitsu
 GTE Internetworking
 Hitachi
 IXC Communications
 KDD
 Nexabit Networks
 Nokia Research Center
 Novell
 NTT Multimedia
 Pacific Bell
 RR Donnelley
 Siemens
 Sprint
 Sun Microsystems
 Sylvan Learning
 Telebeam
 Teleglobe
 Williams
Communications
Abilene
Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at
member meeting
January 1999: Abilene in full service
• peering with: vBNS, ESnet
By December 1999: around 65
institutions connected
Abilene Network
February 1999
Seattle
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Abilene Router Node
Abilene Access Node
Operational January 1999
Planned 1999
Houston
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
Avoiding Balkanization
Physics
Applications
Digital Library Instructional
Applications Applications
Data Mining
Applications
Physics
QoS
Digital Library Instructional
QoS
QoS
Data Mining
QoS
Physics
Security
Digital Library Instructional
Security
Security
Data Mining
Security
Physics
Directories
Digital Library Instructional
Directories
Directories
Data Mining
Directories
Physics
Storage
Digital Library Instructional
Storage
Storage
Data Mining
Storage
TCP/IP Network
Initiative Overview
Deliverables
• Identification of a small number of key
community projects
• Information dissemination
• Demos
• Workshops
Principles
Focus on problems where
• We have a unique incentive to solve
• The benefit to our community is clear and
compelling
• Results are attainable in a reasonable
timeframe
QBone Initiative
An interdomain testbed for differentiated
services
Goals:
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Grow a snowball of interoperable DiffServ clouds
Grow a community of participants
Foster pre-standards interoperability
Collaborate to solve problems and share experiences
Initial participants have been identified
and met in several cases
Initial Participants
• Abilene
• CAnet*2
• iCAIR Consortium
 APAN, CTIT, EVL, Indiana University,
MREN, Nanyang Technological University,
National University of Singapore,
Northwestern University, SingAREN
(Backbone network), STAR TAP, SURFnet
(Backbone network), TransPAC (Backbone
interconnect)
Initial Participants - cont’d
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IPPM Surveyor Project
Merit / University of Michigan
NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative
NREN
NYSERNet
PSC / NLANR / CMU
Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP
UMN
UPenn/ UMass
vBNS
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, TERENA*, SingAREN, JAIRC
In process: UK, Italy, Germany, France
International collaborations cont’d
Network interconnection
• Interconnection at STAR TAP (CAnetII,
SURFnet, NORDUnet, SingAREN underway)
• Second interconnection directly with Abilene
(NY - NORDUnet, SURFnet)
Specific project collaboration
• QBone (e.g. SURFnet an initial participant)
• middleware
• research/learning applications
Next Steps
Continue to interconnect member
desktops and servers at high speed
Continue to support advanced
applications development
• focus on multi-campus implementations
Adopt, develop and implement
• QoS end-to-end
• middleware end-to-end
• new business models
Internet2 and NGI
collaboration
JET
• Internet2 participation (Guy Almes, Paul Love)
• JET + I2 Topology WG joint meetings: NGIX
HPNAT
• Internet2 participation (Ted Hanss)
Internet2 Working Groups
• NGI network or agency participation in
Internet2 WGs: IPv6, QoS, Measurement,
Routing, Topology
I2-NGI cont’d
Abilene
• NSF HPNSP network serving HPC awardees
Network interconnection
• Abilene and vBNS peering
• Abilene and ESnet peering
• Abilene and vBNS at Chicago NGIX
Demonstrations
• cross-participation in Oct97, Mar98, Apr98
demonstrations at Highway 1
I2-NGI collaboration cont’d
Are there other opportunities for
collaboration?
• Engaging researchers on campus
• greater collaboration in identifying and
developing applications
We’re interested in discussing!