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Developments in Internet2
Heather Boyles
Director, Government and International
Relations
[email protected]
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
133 as of September 1998
University of Puerto Rico not shown
Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Lucent Technologies
Advanced Network MCI Worldcom
& Services, Inc.
Newbridge Networks
AT&T
Nortel Networks
Cabletron Systems Qwest
Communications
Cisco Systems
FORE
IBM
StarBurst
Communications
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South
Packet Engines
SBC Technology
Resources
StorageTek
Torrent
Technologies
Internet2 Corporate Members
Alcatel Telecom
Ameritech
Apple Computers
AppliedTheory
Bell Atlantic
Bellcore
British Telecom
Deutsche Telekom
GTE Internetworking
Hitachi
IXC Communications
KDD
Nexabit Networks
Nokia Research Center
Novell
Pacific Bell
RR Donnelley
Siemens
Sprint
StorageTek
Sun Microsystems
Sylvan
Learning
Telebeam
Williams
Communications
Applications and Engineering
Applications
Motivate
Enables
Engineering
Internet2 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 Challenges
Identify technologies that are
scalable and interoperable
Increase deployment of middleware
technologies as part of a precommercial production environment
Examples:
• Distributed storage - I2DSI initiative
• Multicast video tools - I2DVN initiative
Engineering Objectives
Deploy a production network to
support applications R&D
Establish quality of service (QoS)
Support native multicast
Establish gigaPoPs as effective
service points
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
January 1999
Seattle
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Abilene Router Node
Abilene Access 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
Abilene Schedule - the latest
Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at
member meeting, in pre-production
at several universities, connected to
Chicago switch for STAR TAP
January 1999: Initial group of around
65 members connected in production
mode
1999: Other members connected as
mutually planned
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.
Current Priorities
Establish backbone connectivity
Facilitate middleware implementation
Support network research
Identify and develop first phase
applications
Build international collaboration
opportunities
US Federal Government:
Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program
http://www.ngi.gov
Established in parallel with Internet2
multi-agency research and development
(R&D) program to develop, test, and
demonstrate advanced networking
technologies and applications
via testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times
faster end-to-end than today's Internet
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 <--> NGI Relationship
cont’d
Cooperative programs:
• NSF High Performance Connections grants:
UCAID universities using to connect to achieve
Internet2 connectivity
• Abilene <-> Energy, NASA network
interconnection: being planned to provide high
performance access for universities to research
labs
• Applications: researchers benefit from numerous
federal grants that help develop applications
The QBone - What is It?
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
QBone Call for Participation
CFP issued September 25th, 1998
Proposals due October 16th
Review complete October 30th
Participant Types
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Networks
Network Engineering / Advanced Development
Applications and Middleware Developers
Corporate Partners
Phase 0 Recommendations
13 Proposals recommended for initial QIG
• Abilene (Backbone network)
• CAnet*2 (Backbone, GigaPoPs, Campuses,
Bandwidth Broker Prototyping)
• iCAIR Consortium (Backbone, GigaPoP,
Campuses, Engineering, Applications)
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 Recommendations - cont’d
• IPPM Surveyor Project (Measurement Support)
• Merit / University of Michigan (GigaPoP, Campus,
Measurement, Application, BB)
• NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative (Backbone,
GigaPoP, Campuses, Engineering, Applications)
• NREN (Backbone , NGIX, Application)
• NYSERNet (Backbone, GigaPoP, Performance
measurement)
• PSC / NLANR / CMU (GigaPoP, Campus, Measurement,
Application)
• Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP (GigaPoP,
Campus, Measurement)
• UMN (GigaPoP, Campus, Application)
• UPenn/ UMass (GigaPoP, Measurement, Policy)
• vBNS (Backbone)
QBone Structure
QBone Interoperability Group (QIG)
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Actively building pre-production interdomain DiffServ infrastructure
Works on nuts-and-bolts interoperability issues
Specific phased demonstrations of interdomain QoS
Participation staged to keep group focused
QBone Solutions Group (QSG)
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Broader discussion of engineering and deployment issues
Includes teams that plan to join the QIG
Focus on intradomain engineering issues
Participation open to the Internet2 community
I2 QoS Working Group
• Architectural guardians
• Nurture QIG and QSG
Review Process
QBone Facilitation Committee (QFC)
• 13 members of the Internet2 QoS Working Group
• First, reviewed proposals individually
• Then, met in Armonk to finalize
Principles and Guidelines
• Emphasis on forming productive
partnerships/groupings, rather than
selecting/rejecting
• “Small is beautiful” w.r.t Phase 0 QIG
• Objective and subjective evaluations of proposals
Internet2 QoS Resources
QoS Working Group
• Home Page:
http://www.internet2.edu/qos/wg
• Interest Mailing List:
[email protected]
QBone
• Home page:
http://www.internet2.edu/qbone
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
What kind of collaborations?
Network interconnection
• Abilene and CA*net2, SURFnet, NORDUnet,
etc.
Specific project collaboration
• QBone
• middleware
• research/learning applications
Technology transfer
• mutual industrial participants?
Information exchange
International task force
• to advise our Board, management on issues of
international collaborations
Greater participation in international
groups
• CCIRN
• GIBN
More Information
Me: Heather Boyles
• [email protected]
• +1 202 331 5342
Internet2
• www.internet2.edu