Notes
Outline
Internet2
Douglas Van Houweling
President & CEO, UCAID
ACUTA Annual Conference
19 July 1999
Computers on the Internet
People on the Internet
Internet Economy
Facts and Figures
64 Million US Adult Regular Users
Seven new people every second
$301 Billion in 1998 revenue
Doubling every 9 months
Internet Advertising generated $1.92 billion in 1998
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
Tomorrow’s Internet
Billions of users and devices
Convergence of today’s applications and services
New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)
Slide 8
Internet2 Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
Enabling advanced applications...
Advanced Applications
Digital Libraries
Virtual Laboratories
Collaboration
Visualization and virtual reality
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
…
Digital Libraries
Informedia Project
Carnegie Mellon University
Digital Libraries
Television News Archive
Vanderbilt University
Virtual Laboratories
Distributed nanoManipulator
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Virtual Laboratories
Real-time 3-D Brain Mapping
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Collaborations
Link instruments, data sources, researchers and students
The CAVE
Teleimmersion
Virtural Temporal Bone
University of Illinois at Chicago
Distributed Computation
Large-scale computation
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Re-creating leading edge networking capabilities...
Middleware Initiatives
Quality of Service: QBone
www.internet2.edu/qbone
Multicast
Distributed Storage: I2-DSI
dsi.internet2.edu
Digital Video: I2-DV
I2MI: GlueWorks
www.internet2.edu/middleware
Internet2 Working Groups
IPv6
Measurement
Multicast
Network Management
Network Storage
Quality of Service
Routing
Security
Topology
Applications and Engineering
Internet2 GigaPoPs
Abilene Network
Abilene Characteristics
2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today
13,000+ miles of circuits
70+ universities connected by end of 1999
National testbed for leading edge technologies
Interconnecting with other national
R&E networks
Transferring technology and experience...
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Board of Trustees
David Ward, (Chair, Board of Trustees) University of Wisconsin
Henry S. Bienen, Northwestern University
William G. Bowen, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Molly Corbett Broad, University of North Carolina
Larry R. Faulkner, University of Texas at Austin
Steven B. Sample, University of Southern California
Graham B. Spanier, Pennsylvania  State University
Eric Bloch, (Chair, Industry Strategy Council)
Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Chair, Applications Strategy Council)
James Bruce, MIT
(Chair, Networking Policy and Planning Advisory Council)
David Meyer, Cisco & Univ. of Oregon
(Chair, Networking Research Liaison Council )
Douglas E. Van Houweling
Internet2 Corporate Partners
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Microsoft
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Packet Engines
Qwest Communications
StarBurst
WCI Cable
Xylan
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Ameritech
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
Cisco Systems
FORE Systems
IBM
ITC^Deltacom
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South
Compaq
Ericsson (formerly Torrent Networking Technologies)
Litton Network Access Systems
Novell
SBC Technology Resources
StorageTek
Internet2 Corporate Members
Alcatel Telecom
Apple Computer
AppliedTheory Communications
Bell Atlantic
British Telecom
Deutsche Telekom
Fujitsu Laboratories of America
GTE Internetworking
Hitachi
IXC Communications
KDD
Motorola
Nexabit Networks
Nokia Research Center
NTT Multimedia
Pacific Bell
Project OXYGEN
RR Donnelley
Siemens
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Sylvan Learning
Tachyon
Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore)
Telebeam
Teleglobe
TransMedia Communications
VTEL
Williams
Communications Grp.
Worldport
     Communications Inc.
Technology Transfer
Conduits
Collaborating on advanced applications
Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols
Establishing expertise and human capital
Innovating to Close the Gap
Network Convergence
Ubiquitous Connectivity
Unanticipated Innovation
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