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Internet2 Status Update
Ted Hanss
Director, Applications Development
TERENA - 23 May 2000
Topics
Organization
Applications
The Network
Organization
Internet2 Mission
Facilitating the development and deployment
of advanced applications and network
services for research and education,
accelerating the next generation of the
internet.
Organization Overview
Not-for-profit consortium
• 178 U.S. university members
• 70+ corporate members
• 40+ non-profit members
• Board made up primarily of university
presidents
Separate from, but cooperates with,
Federal Government’s Next Generation
Internet initiative
Applications
Internet2 Applications
What are “I2 applications”?
They deliver qualitative and quantitative
improvements in how we conduct research
and engage in teaching and learning
They require advanced networks to work
Different Disciplines/Contexts
Sciences
Instruction
Arts
Collaboration
Humanities
Streaming video
Health care
Data mining
Business/Law
Virtual reality
Administration
Digital libraries
…
…
Application Attributes
Interactive
collaboration and
instruction
Real-time access to
remote resources
Attributes, cont.
Large-scale, multisite computation and
database processing
Shared virtual
reality
Any combination of
the above
Digital Video Applications
MPEG2 video conferencing
MPEG1 broadcast distribution and
archiving
HDTV-based digital cinema, web cams,
network-based studio production, …
Multicast video conferencing
• VRVS with CERN/Caltech
• Access Grid room-based environments
Health Sciences Initiative
First Internet2 domain focus area
Variety of potential initiatives
• Education
• Clinical
• Research
 Roadmap in part from “Networking Health:
Prescriptions for the Internet”
• National Research Council report,
www.nap.edu
Help Needed
How to best reach the disciplines?
• “Joint Techs” experience versus reaching
faculty
What are the next areas of opportunity?
• 3G mobile phone applications in research
and education?
Middleware
Middleware
Focus areas
• Identification
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Directories
I2 Middleware Initiative
Education community has unique needs
and capabilities
• Middleware Architecture Committee for
Education (MACE)
• Early Harvest and Early Adopters
Best Practices
Identification
Knowledge transfer
Best Practices
Implementation
I2 Middleware Initiative
• PKI
– Certificate policies
• Shibboleth
– inter-realm authentication for web
content
• Medical middleware
• Directories
– edu-Person schema
– lookup of ted@“higher education”
Abilene Network
Abilene Characteristics
Production net for applications R&D
2.4 gbps (OC48) increasing to 9.6 gbps
(OC192)
Connections at 2.4 gbps, 622 (OC12) or
155 mbps (OC3)
IP over Sonet technology
Peering points evolving through
“International Transit Network”
Abilene Network
Seattle
Cleveland
Sacramento
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Denver
New
York
Indianapolis
Washington
Washington,
DC
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Houston
Characteristics, cont.
End-to-end services focus
• Multicast
• IPv6
• Advanced measurement
• Quality of service
Quality of Service
Initiating “Abilene Premium Service” to
enable loss/jitter intolerant applications
• Reference implementation of QBONE
architecture
• Uses Expedited Forwarding (RFC2598)
• Contract: leased line emulation at a
specified peak rate
– Near-zero loss
– Low, bounded jitter
Internet2 Land Speed Record
832 mbps across 5262 kilometers
Team
• Information Sciences Institute at USC
• Microsoft
• Qwest
• University of
Washington
International Activities
www.internet2.edu/international
MoU Partners
AAIREP (Australia)
APAN (Asia-Pacific)
APAN-KR (Korea)
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CANARIE (Canada)
CESnet (Czech Republic)
CUDI (Mexico)
DANTE (Europe)
DFN-Verein (Germany)
Fundacion Internet 2 Argentina
(Argentina)
GIP RENATER (France)
GRNET (Greece)
HEAnet (Ireland)
HUNGARNET (Hungary)
INFN-GARR (Italy)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
JAIRC (Japan)
NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
POL-34 (Poland)
RCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
REUNA (Chile)
RNP2 (Brazil)
SingAREN (Singapore)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
TERENA (Europe)
JISC/UKERNA (UK)
Distributed STAR TAP
NGIX-Chicago/ STAR TAP
Abilene
CA*net3
APAN
vBNS
CERN
SURFnet
ESnet
MIRnet
SINET
DREN
RENATER2 SingAREN
NREN/NISN IUCC
TANet2
NORDUnet
GEMnet
Seattle
Abilene
CA*net3
Esnet
DREN
Los Angeles
Abilene
SingAREN
New York City
vBNS
DFN
Abilene
JAnet
ESnet
SURFnet
INFN
NORDUnet
DANTE
CA*net3
Miami
More Information
Meetings
Joint Techs
• 21-25 August in Toronto (joint with
CANARIE)
• 28-31 January in Hawaii (joint with APAN)
Member Meeting
• 29 October - 1 November in Atlanta
Contact Info ...
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Ted Hanss
Internet2
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