Internet2
Heather Boyles
heather@internet2.edu
CUDI2000
Puerto Vallarta, México
Abril 2 el 4

My presentation
Overview of Internet2 project
Who
What
How
Following presentations will provide more detail on
Campus experience
Regional network/gigapop
Applications

Who is Internet2?
170+ universities
64 corporations
37 other research organizations
Federal government labs
Regional networks and gigapops
Federal agency partnerships
International partners
Staff of circa 25

How does Internet2 work?
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

Internet2 Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

Internet2 Activity Areas
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...

Advanced Applications
Collaboration
Virtual Laboratories
Visualization and virtual reality
Digital Libraries
All of the above in combination

Many Disciplines and Contexts
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration
Instruction
Collaboration
Streaming video
Distributed computation
Data mining
Virtual reality
Digital libraries

From “circuits” to “services”
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...

Applications and Engineering

End-to-End Networks
Campus networks
GigaPoPs
National backbones

Internet2 GigaPoPs

National Networks
Internet2 Backbone Networks
vBNS
Abilene
Federal Government Backbone Networks
DREN
ESnet
NREN

Internet2 backbone networks
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

Abilene Network

Abilene map
http://www.abilene.iu.edu/images/logical.pdf

Gigapop Role

Transferring technology and experience...

Technology Transfer
Conduits
Collaborating on advanced applications
Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols
Establishing expertise and human capital

Important Communities
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

Internet2 Universities

Internet2 Corporate Partners
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

International 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), SingAREN (Singapore), Stichting SURF (Netherlands), SWITCH (Switzerland), TAnet (Taiwan), TERENA (Europe), JISC/UKERNA (UK)

For More Internet2 Information
On the Web
www.internet2.edu
Email
info@internet2.edu

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