SALON A

This session will highlight exemplary collaborations between Internet2 members and partners from around the world that are taking advantage of international connectivity. Specifically, the session will include:

• One short presentation on current global infrastructure and available tools and resources that can enable international collaborations (ongoing and just getting started) and contacts. (Ana Preston, Internet2) [ppt] [htm]
• Two presentations made by Internet2 members on their experiences with a series of international collaborative projects. In the format of "case studies", the presenters will share their projects and lessons learned while engaging in international collaborations. At the end of the session, we will have a brief question and answer session for all participants to share their perspectives on what are the opportunities and challenges that emerge in order to sustain true global collaborations.

Case Study I:
Texas A&M and working with Mexico and Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges [ppt] [htm]
Walt Magnussen, Texas A&M University.

Mr. Magnussen will provide an overview of ongoing projects between his university and several universities within Mexico and in other Latin American countries.

Case Study II:
Duke University and International Connection with Germany [ppt] [htm]
Nevin Fouts, Associate Dean for Information Technology, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business recently announced its use of "telepresence across Internet2 networks" at its campuses in both Durham, NC and in Frankfurt, Germany. As an alternative to the typical lower-speed videoconferencing connections, Fuqua has now begun using super-fast Internet2 networks in the United States and DFN, the German high-performance research and education network, to carry the video and audio content of its Global Conference System telepresence environment between Durham and Frankfurt. Fuqua's Global Conference System telepresence environment allows staff and faculty to meet on an as-needed basis by just walking into a conference room that is connected to another conference room across the ocean, via Internet2 networks and DFN

SALON J

Network Engineering
IPv6 Deployment: Experiences from the European 6NET and Euro6IX projects and Japanese WIDE IPv6 project Salon J

Tim Chown, University of Southhampton
Hiroshi Esaki, WIDE Project, Japan
Dale Finkelson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

This session will provide insights into IPv6 development and implementation work in Europe and Japan as well as within the Internet2 community. The European Commission has recently funded two three-year, large-scale IPv6 deployment projects, each with a budget of over 15M Euros. In 6NET, over a dozen National Research and Education Networks will be connected with high-speed native IPv6 links; this work will be a precursor to a production IPv6 service on GEANT, the pan-European research network. In Euro6IX, the major European telcos are deploying a number of IPv6 exchanges; the work will focus on how such exchanges can work for the mutual benefit of the telcos. The presentation will overview both projects, putting them in the context of wider IPv6 research and deployment initiatives in Europe. Both projects will seek to establish relationships with other IPv6 initiatives, including those within Internet2/Abilene and within Japan and Korea. By presenting the activities of the projects at this Spring Meeting, we hope to promote collaboration between the projects and Internet2 members and its IPv6 Working Group. The WIDE project is a research consortium regarding the internet technology. WIDE has more than 400 active researchers related with internet technology and has around 200 industrial and academic memberships. WIDE leads the IPv6 deployment for the JGN (Japan Gigabit Network), Japan's federal government- funded nationwide research and development network. The WIDE project has a lot of research projects related with internet technology. Basically, all of these projects are based on IPv6 technology. Also, WIDE has initiated four projects, purely focusing on the IPv6 core technology; e.g., KAME (IPv6 stack for *BSD*), USAGI (IPv6 stack for Linux), THAI (IPv6 comformance test suite), and JB (nationwide IPv6 research testbed). The WIDE project has initiated another IPv6 testbed that is funded by the Japanese government, and is collaborating with a lot of commercial players, e.g., NTT-Communications, yusen, eAccess, Panasonic and SONY. This testbed is not only focusing on the PC-based IPv6 deployment, but also on the network appliances (e.g., sensor-node, PDA) with IPv6.