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Introduction to Internet2
Laurie Burns
Director of Member Activities, Internet2
University of Maryland Internet2 Day
March 30, 2001
What is Internet2?
A member-based organization focused on advanced
applications and advanced networking in research and
education
A project of the University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development (UCAID)
More than “a network” – it’s an umbrella term for many
activities undertaken by the organization and the
membership
The organization its staff work for
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Why Internet2?
Yesterday’s Internet
 Thousands of users
 Remote login, file transfer
 Applications capitalize on underlying technology
Today’s Internet
 Millions of users
 Web, email, low-quality audio & video
 Applications adapt to underlying technology
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Today’s Internet Doesn’t
Provide reliable end-to-end performance
Encourage cooperation on new capabilities
Allow testing of new technologies
Support development of revolutionary
applications
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Tomorrow’s Internet
Billions of users and devices
Convergence of today’s applications and
services
New technologies enable unanticipated
applications (and create new challenges)
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Higher Education’s Role
History of leadership for advanced networking
nationally
Collaborative research is a primary driver for
development of advanced applications
Diversity of institutions, disciplines, and
people
Large-scale testbed environment
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Internet2 Beginnings and Growth
Fall 1996
• Internet2 project is created as a collaboration among 34 leading
research universities
Fall 1997
• University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development is
incorporated
Spring 1998
• 123 regular University members, 30 Corporate members, and 22
Affiliate members
Today
• 185 regular University members, 74 Corporate members, and 41
Affiliate members
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Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network
applications and technologies, accelerating
the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
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Internet2 Goals
1: Enable new generation of applications not
supported in current commodity Internet
2: Re-create leading edge R&E network
capability
3: Transfer technology and experience to the
global production Internet
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Internet2 Membership
Regular
• US institutions of higher education
Corporate
• Members
• Sponsors
• Partners
Affiliate
• Non-profit and other research or education
organizations
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Internet2 Membership
Expectations:
• Engage in the activities and goals of
Internet2
• Commit to the sustained deployment of
high-performance network infrastructure
• Contribute to the advancement of research
and educational uses of high-performance
networking
• Self select
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University Members by Carnegie
Classification
131 Doctoral Research/Extensive (out of 148)
40 Doctoral Research/Intensive (out of 105)
5 Masters I
2 Engineering schools
5 Medical schools
2 System Offices
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Internet2 Universities
185 Universities as of March 2001
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Corporate Membership
Corporate Membership by Type
• 16 Partners
• 9 Sponsors
• 49 Members
Diversity of Corporate Membership
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telecommunications and networking companies
educational content providers
application service providers
pharmaceuticals
start-ups
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Internet2 Affiliate Members
14 research organizations (e.g., UCAR, CERN)
8 universities or system offices
8 federal labs (e.g., NASA, NOAA)
8 regional or state networking organizations
1 performing arts organization (New World
Symphony)
1 digital archive (Visual History Foundation)
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International Connectivity
International MOU Partners
• Over 30 networks in countries around the
world
• Memoranda of Understanding are
established with international networking
organizations that share Internet2’s goals
and objectives
• MOU’s define the interconnection
agreements between these networks and
Abilene
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Internet2 International MoU Partners
AAIREP (Australia)
APAN (Asia-Pacific)
APAN-KR (Korea)
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CANARIE (Canada)
CARNET (Croatia)
CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)
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)
JISC/UKERNA (UK)
JUCC (Hong Kong)
NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
POL-34 (Poland)
RCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
REUNA (Chile)
RPN2 (Brazil)
SENACYT (Panama)
SingAREN (Singapore)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
TERENA (Europe)
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Internet2 Governance Structure
UCAID Board of Trustees
Four Advisory Councils:
Applications
Industry
Strategy Council
Networking
Network
Strategy Council
Planning and Policy Advisory Council
Research Liaison Council
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Internet2 Goals
Enable a new generation of applications
• Collaborative or group process support
• Access to remote resources
• Distributed computation and data handling
• Immersive data visualization and virtual
reality
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Virtual Laboratories
Real-time access to remote
instruments
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
3-D Brain Mapping
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Distributed Computation
Large-scale computation
University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research
Image courtesy of UCAR
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Digital Libraries
Video and audio
Indiana University
Variations Project
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Applications Initiatives
Health Sciences
• Focus on telemedicine, electronic medical
records, imaging, etc.
Arts and Humanities
• Focus on performing arts, fine arts,
multimedia
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Internet2 Goals
2: Re-create leading edge R&E network
capability
 End-to-End
 Core
Environments
Middleware
 Advanced
Network Services (Multicast, QoS, IPv6)
 Testbed
network environment for networking
research use
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Internet2 Network Infrastructure
Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48)
capacity today
GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance
aggregation points
Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps (or
better) to the desktop
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Internet2 Network Architecture
Internet2 Interconnect
Cloud
University A
GigaPoP
Regional Network
University B
Commercial
Internet
Connections
University C
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Internet2 GigaPoPs
27 as of March 2000
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Advanced Networks
• Abilene
• vBNS
• vBNS+
• ESnet
• NREN
• DREN
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Internet2 End-to-End Performance
Initiative
Goal: To enable the end-user to obtain optimal
performance from the available current and future
infrastructure on a routine basis.
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Network
Host
Applications
Distributed and coordinated support
Knowledge building and dissemination
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Middleware
A layer of software between the network and
the applications
 Authentication
 Identification
 Authorization
 Directories
 Security
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Internet2 Middleware Initiative
 Early
Harvest and Early Adopters
 PKI
 Shibboleth
(authentication)
 Computational middleware (Beta Grid)
 Medical middleware
 Directories (eduperson)
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Abilene
10,000 miles of national backbone operating at 2.4
Gbps (OC48) among GigaPoPs
Connections to Abilene at 155 Mbps (OC3), 622 Mbps
(OC12), and 2.4 Gbps (OC48)
Packet/IP over SoNet technology (PoS)
Supported and operated by a partnership among
Qwest, Cisco Systems, Nortel, and Indiana University
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Abilene
History
 April
1998: Abilene Network announced
 February 1999: Abilene Network launched
 March 2000 - ~180 signed Participation
Agreements
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Abilene Conditions of Use
Governs

the types of organizations that can connect
 the types of traffic that can be sent/received
Promotes
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traffic that primarily and clearly serves the teaching,
learning, research, and clinical missions of US higher
education
 traffic that is primarily the result of collaboration and other
related work on instructional, clinical, and/or research
projects, content, and services
 Internet2's goal of encouraging and enabling the
development of advanced network applications
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Abilene Participation
Participation vs. Membership
Primary Participation
• Regular Members
• Affiliate and Corporate Members with
Collaboration Site Status*
*Collaboration Site Status: Allows Affiliate Members and
Corporate Members to designate a physical location, such
as a research lab, to connect to Abilene.
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Abilene Participation
Sponsored
• Sponsored Individual Institutions
Individual educational or research-oriented
institutions, museums, art galleries, libraries,
hospitals, etc. who are sponsored by a Regular
University member
• Sponsored Educational Groups
State networks of predominantly educational
organizations, such as state K-12 networks who are
sponsored by a Regular University member in the
same state
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Internet2 Goals
3: Transfer technology and experience to the
global production Internet
 Collaborating
on advanced applications
 Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and
protocols
 Establishing expertise and human capital
 Supporting large-scale proof of concept
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Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Marconi Communications
Advanced Network & Services
Microsoft
Alcatel
Nortel Networks
AT&T
Qwest Communications
Cisco Systems
SBC Communications
IBM
Spirent Communications
ITC^Deltacom
WCI Cable
Lucent Technologies
Worldcom
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Internet2 Working Groups
•IPv6
•Measurement
•Multicast
•Network
Management
•Quality of Service
•Routing
•Security
•Topology
•Digital Video
•Digital Imaging
•ResearchChannel
•Video Conferencing
•Voice over IP
•Network Storage
•MACE (Architecture)
•MACE-DIR (Directories)
•HEPKI-TAG
•HEPKI-PAG
http://www.internet2.edu/html/working-groups.html
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Advanced Networking on the Web
General Internet2:
 http://www.internet2.edu
Abilene:
 http://www.internet2.edu/abilene/
Federal Next Generation Internet:
 http://www.ngi.gov
vBNS:
 http://www.vbns.net
National Teleimmersion Initiative:
Quality of Service: QBone
 http://www.internet2.edu/qbone/
Scalable IP Multicast
 http://www.internet2.edu/multicast/
Digital Video: I2-DV
 http://dv.internet2.edu/
I2MI: GlueWorks
 http://www.internet2.edu/middlewar
e/
 http://www.advanced.org/teleimmer
sion
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Thank you!
Laurie Burns
[email protected]
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Membership Dues
Regular
• $25,000/year
Affiliate
• $10,000
• $25,000 including Collaboration Site Status*
*Collaboration Site Status: Allows Affiliate Members and
Corporate Members to designate a physical location, such
as a research lab, to connect to Abilene.
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Membership Dues
Corporate Members
• $10,000-$25,000 depending on annual revenues
and on Collaboration Site Status
Corporate Sponsors
• Dues plus in-kind contributions of $100,000 or more
Corporate Partners
• Dues plus in-kind contributions of $1,000,000 or
more
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Abilene Fees
Primary Participants
• $20,000/year
Sponsored Individual Institution
Participants
• no fees to Internet2
Sponsored Educational Group
Participants
• $30,000/year, plus $2,000/congressional
representative, paid by the connector to Internet2
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