Internet2: Advancing Networking for Education
Douglas Van Houweling
President & CEO, UCAID
School Technology Management
19 October 1999
Washington, DC

People on the Internet

Computers on the Internet

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)

Internet Development Spiral

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
Collaboration
Virtual Laboratories
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
>2000 hours
50,000 stories

Digital Libraries
Video and audio
Indiana University




Variations Project

Collaborations
Link instruments, data sources, researchers and students

Virtual Laboratories
Real-time access to remote instruments
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Distributed nanoManipulator

Teleimmersion
Shared virtual reality
University of Illinois at Chicago

Virtual
Temporal
Bone

Distributed Computation
Large-scale computation
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Re-creating leading edge networking capabilities...

Applications and Engineering

Initiatives
Quality of Service: QBone
www.internet2.edu/qbone
Multicast
Distributed Storage: I2-DSI
dsi.internet2.edu
Digital Video: I2-DV
i2dv.nwu.icair.edu
I2MI: Glue Factory
www.internet2.edu/middleware

Internet2 Working Groups
IPv6
Measurement
Multicast
Network Management
Network Storage
Quality of Service
Routing
Security
Topology

End-to-End Networks
Campus networks
GigaPoPs
National backbones

Internet2 GigaPoPs

Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative

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

Abilene Network

Transferring technology and experience...

Internet2 Universities
163 Members as of September 1999

Internet2 Corporate Partners
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Microsoft
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
StarBurst
WCI Cable
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
Ameritech
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
Cisco Systems
FORE Systems
IBM

International Activities
Ensure global interoperability of advanced networking technologies and applications
Enable collaborations between US researchers at Internet2 institutions and their non-US counterparts

Drivers for advanced global research networks
Global access to shared resources
Instruments and facilities
Genome, video, economic, and demographic databases
Data collection and dissemination
Earth observation
High Energy Physics
Collaboration support
Video, audio, tele-immersion

Internet2 International Collaborations
Building peer to peer relationships
Looking for similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
Implementation: Peering and Connection Agreements
Collaboration: Projects and Applications

MOU Signatories
Signed:
CANARIE (Canada)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
TERENA (pan-European association)
UKERNA (UK)
INFN-GARR (Italy)
DFN-Verein (Germany)
GIP RENATER (France)
JAIRC (Japan)
SingAREN (Singapore)
CUDI (Mexico)
APAN (Asia-Pacific region)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
DANTE (European network)
AAIREP (Australia)
HEAnet (Ireland)
CESnet (Czech Republic)
Under discussion
RNP2 (Brazil)
EnRED (Latin American association)
REDIris (Spain)
SWITCH (Switzerland)

Network Convergence
Common bearer service (IP)
End to end capability
Applications driven
Media types integrated for natural interpersonal interaction

Information Ž Collaboration
Today’s Internet focuses on access to and delivery of information and entertainment
Tomorrow’s Internet will support human collaboration in an information and media rich environment
Dramatic implications for the K-12

Ubiquitous Connectivity
Steadily lower prices
Task-specific and everyday devices
Machine-to-machine network traffic
Nomadic connections

Unanticipated Innovation
Lesson of the Web
Network growth and value are non-linear
New technologies enable qualitatively different uses
Users become innovators

Technology Transfer
to K-12
Direct university collaboration
Regional gigaPoP activities
Corporate partner commercialization

Implications for K-12
Advanced networking will provide:
Expanded access to remote resources for instruction
Increased need to collaborate with broader educational community on IT
Continued need to ensure broad deployment of new capabilities

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

www.internet2.edu