Internet2: A Tutorial Part 1 of 4 17th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks Paul Love, Internet2 Chair, I2 Topology WG epl@internet2.edu

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Outline Background & Overview Applications Abilene Network Gigapop Architecture Working Groups IPv6 Multicast Middleware http://www.internet2.edu Network Storage QoS SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 Background and Overview

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil History ARPAnet origins 1987 -- NSFnet Backbone: 56kbps to 45mbps Privatizated in 1995 Higher education planning in 1995/1996 Are our research and education needs being met by today’s (1996’s) Internet? SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil History of Internet2 September 1995: Monterey Futures Conference August 1996: Cheyenne Mountain Workshop October 1996: Internet2 Project formed 34 Institutions attended - all joined January 1997: First Internet2 Member Meeting October 1997: UCAID formed University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development April 1998: Abilene Project Announced September 1998: Middleware Initiative Announced January 1999: Abilene in Production SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 “Structure” Affiliate Members Corporate Members & Partners University Members UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) Internet2 Project Abilene Middleware Initiative SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

History of Internet2, cont. Current Membership University 154 Affiliate 27 Corporate 50 Membership commitment Membership dues End-to-end high performance connectivity HPNSP connectivity Campus upgrades Highend applications development Retain commodity Internet connectivity SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 Project Goals Enable new generation of applications Re-create leading edge R&E network capability Transfer capability to the global production Internet SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 Universities 154 Members as of May 1999 SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil University of Puerto Rico not shown 25-28 May 99

Internet2 Primary Technical Innovations Needed Stated a year ago Quality of Service Enable advanced applications without brute force Multi-cloud and multi-provider Multicast Scalable Selection among emerging technologies Support for large delay - bandwidth products IPv6 As a means to important ends SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99 6

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Network Architecture GigaPoP One GigaPoP Two I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoP Three GigaPoP Four “Gigabit capacity point of presence” an aggregation point for regional connectivity SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Internet2 Backbones Multiple Backbones Initially just vBNS Partnership of National Science Foundation & MCIWorldcom April 1995 through March 2000 Joined by Abilene Project of UCAID Begun 1998 Initial Parners - Internet2, Qwest, Cisco, Nortel Possible others HPNSPs in future SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

vBNS Backbone Network Map Seattle C Boston National Center for Atmospheric Research Ameritech NAP Cleveland C Chicago C New York City C A C C A C C Sprint NAP Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center C Perryman, MD A San Francisco C Denver C C C National Center for Supercomputing Applications C J Washington, DC MFS NAP Los Angeles J C A C Atlanta C San Diego Supercomputer Center Ascend GRF 400 Cisco 7507 Juniper M40 FORE ASX-1000 NAP A C DS-3 OC-3C OC-12C OC-48 J C Houston  1999 MCIWORLDCOM SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil US Federal Government: Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program http://www.ngi.gov Established in parallel with Internet2 Multi-agency research and development (R&D) program to develop, test, and demonstrate advanced networking technologies and applications via testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today's Internet SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

ESnet as example NGI net SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship Similar technical objectives Focused on different, but complementary communities NGI: Federal Mission agencies UCAID/Internet2: university research and education community Working to interconnect, make interoperable federal research networks and Abilene SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship cont’d Cooperative programs: NSF High Performance Connections grants: UCAID universities using to connect to achieve Internet2 connectivity Abilene <-> Energy & NASA network interconnections: provides high performance access for universities to research labs (One NASA network still to be peered with) Applications: researchers benefit from numerous federal grants that help develop applications SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Internet2 International Activities Why? Ensure global interoperability of new technologies and applications Enable collaboration between US researchers/faculty/students and colleagues outside US. using advanced networking capabilities SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil International How? Form mutually beneficial relationships with organizations outside the US with: Similar projects goals to Internet2 Similar constituencies (institutions of higher education/research) Establish interconnectivity International networks come to US to peer Establish collaborations in technology, applications development activities SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil International Who? CANARIE (Canada) SURFnet (Netherlands) NORDUnet (Nordic countries) TERENA (pan-European association) CUDI (Mexico) JAIRC (Japan) UKERNA (UK) DFN-Verein (Germany) RENATER (France) INFN-GARR (Italy) SingAREN (Singapore) ... Anticipate More SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Information Exchange International task force To advise our Board & management on issues of international collaborations Representatives invited to be members of Internet2 Working Groups Internet2 participates in related international groups such as CCIRN SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Applications

Internet2 Applications What are “I2 applications”? They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning They require advanced networks to work SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Different Disciplines/Contexts Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration … Instruction Collaboration Streaming video Distributed computation Data mining Virtual reality Digital libraries … SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Application Attributes Interactive research collaboration and instruction Real-time access to remote scientific instruments SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Attributes, cont. Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

Variations/Music Archives Indiana University

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American Sign Language and English Captions Gallaudet University

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Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory University of Michigan

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Remote Scanning Electron Microscope University of Michigan

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3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action” University of Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute GeoWorlds University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

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Teleimmersion University of Illinois-Chicago University of Illinois-NCSA Old Dominion University

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil The CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

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SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Immersadesk Source: University of Illinois-Chicago SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

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SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Engaging Developers Outreach Go to faculty on campus and at discipline meetings See http://apps.internet2.edu/i2-day.html Educating about development issues Portability, interoperability, scaling, ... Adaptive apps, multicast, QoS, … E.g., see http://dast.nlanr.net/ SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99

SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil The End SBRC99 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 25-28 May 99