| Heather Boyles | |
| heather@internet2.edu | |
| CUDI2000 | |
| Puerto Vallarta, México | |
| Abril 2 el 4 |
| Overview of Internet2 project | ||
| Who | ||
| What | ||
| How | ||
| Following presentations will provide more detail on | ||
| Campus experience | ||
| Regional network/gigapop | ||
| Applications | ||
| 170+ universities | ||
| 64 corporations | ||
| 37 other research organizations | ||
| Federal government labs | ||
| Regional networks and gigapops | ||
| Federal agency partnerships | ||
| International partners | ||
| Staff of circa 25 | ||
| Members | ||
| Deploying advanced networks; supporting applications development on their campuses | ||
| Contributing services to other members – Indiana University provides Network Operations Center | ||
| Industry partnership | ||
| Qwest, Cisco, Nortel provide equipment and services for Abilene network | ||
| Government partnership | ||
| vBNS network funded by National Science Foundation | ||
| Central Staff | ||
| Funded by member dues | ||
| Facilitate, coordinate activities; focus resources | ||
| Enable new generation of applications | |
| Re-create leading edge R&E network capability | |
| Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet |
| Advanced Applications Development and Use | |
| Middleware Infrastructure for Higher Education and Research | |
| Advanced Network Infrastructure | |
| New Networking Capabilities | |
| Technology Transfer | |
| Partnership and Awareness |
Enabling advanced applications...
| Collaboration | |
| Virtual Laboratories | |
| Visualization and virtual reality | |
| Digital Libraries | |
| All of the above in combination |
| Sciences | |
| Arts | |
| Humanities | |
| Health care | |
| Business/Law | |
| Administration | |
| … | |
| Instruction | |
| Collaboration | |
| Streaming video | |
| Distributed computation | |
| Data mining | |
| Virtual reality | |
| Digital libraries | |
| … |
| Functional services available to users and developers | ||
| Enabling new collaborations and applications | ||
| Supported as production quality | ||
| An integrated framework | ||
Examples of Services and Internet2 Initiatives
| Digital Video: I2-DV | ||
| i2dv.nwu.icair.edu | ||
| Middleware: I2-MI | ||
| www.internet2.edu/middleware | ||
| Distributed Storage: I2-DSI | ||
| dsi.internet2.edu | ||
| Multicast | ||
| Quality of Service: QBone | ||
| www.internet2.edu/qbone | ||
The Core of Middleware Infrastructure
| Identifiers for people, objects, groups | |
| Authentication for people, objects and groups | |
| Directories to store common information | |
| Authorization to express and manage privileges | |
| Applications that use all of the above |
Re-creating leading edge networking capabilities...
| Campus networks | |
| GigaPoPs | |
| National backbones |
| Internet2 Backbone Networks | ||
| vBNS | ||
| Abilene | ||
| Federal Government Backbone Networks | ||
| DREN | ||
| ESnet | ||
| NREN | ||
| … | ||
| vBNS | ||
| cooperative agreement between MCIWorldcom and NSF | ||
| 101 institutions connected | ||
| 22 peer networks | ||
| Abilene | ||
| UCAID with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortelnetworks and Indiana University | ||
| 96 participants, 75 connected | ||
| 15 peer networks | ||
| http://www.abilene.iu.edu/images/logical.pdf |
Transferring technology and experience...
| Collaborating on advanced applications | |
| Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols | |
| Establishing expertise and human capital |
| Education Community | ||
| Internet2 universities working with other universities, secondary, primary schools | ||
| Commercial Internet | ||
| Internet2 Corporate members take experience, technology to marketplace | ||
| International Community | ||
| Internet2’s international peers ensure global interoperability | ||
| 3Com | |
| Advanced Network & Services | |
| Alcatel | |
| Ameritech | |
| AT&T | |
| Cabletron Systems | |
| Cisco Systems | |
| FORE Systems | |
| IBM | |
| ITC^Deltacom | |
| Lucent Technologies | |
| MCI Worldcom | |
| Microsoft | |
| Newbridge Networks | |
| Nortel Networks | |
| Qwest Communications | |
| WCI Cable | |
| 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), SingAREN (Singapore), Stichting SURF (Netherlands), SWITCH (Switzerland), TAnet (Taiwan), TERENA (Europe), JISC/UKERNA (UK) | |
For More Internet2 Information
| On the Web | ||
| www.internet2.edu | ||
| info@internet2.edu | ||