Internet2 Tutorials Everything You Wanted To Know About Internet2 and Where To Find It Lee Perlis, Adam Csillag, Louis Biely This is a general overview presentation about Internet2. Internet2 is a consortium, led by US universities, which is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today’s Internet in its infancy. 28 November 2001

Internet2 Brief History Started in 1996 as a project with 34 universities. Abilene launched – Feb. 1999 (Partnership w/ Qwest, Cisco, Nortel, and Indiana University (NOC)) Did you know? The first person “in charge” of the Internet2 project was…? Who managed the organizational structure of Internet2 at the beginning…? The first Internet2 employee was…? 11/30/2018

Internet2 Membership 190 University Members 70+ Corporate (3 levels) -Partners, Sponsors, Members 40+ Affiliate Members (2 types) -Collaboration Sites (affiliates or corps w/ connections to Abilene) *Only organizations in these three categories are considered “members” of Internet2. 11/30/2018

Internet2 Examples of Relationships 11/30/2018

Internet2 Membership and Abilene Structure 11/30/2018

Internet2 Membership and Abilene Dues $$$ University - $25,000/yr ex)Boston University Corporate - $10,000/yr (under $1B revenue) ex) Akamai Technologies Corporate - $25,000/yr (over $1B revenue) ex) Cisco Systems Affiliate - $10,000/yr ($25,000 if collaboration site) ex) Merit – Affiliate National Institutes of Health - collabsite Abilene Participant - $20,000/yr Connectors – (fee varies depending on connection speed) SEGP – ($30,000 + {2x (#of congressman)}/yr Sponsored Participants (no fee) 11/30/2018

Other Internet2 Relationships National Science Foundation- (NSF) International MoU Partners – no fee Sponsored Education Group Participants (SEGP) - ($30,000 + {2x (#of congressman)} Sponsored Participants – no fee gigaPoPs – may or may not be members, a conduit for passing traffic over Abilene Peer Networks- There are high performance networks other than Abilene. 11/30/2018

Important Internet2 URLs Membership Database: http://fmaker.internet2.edu Client version 192.52.179.230 User Name: Your Initials Password: updateme Staff Only website http://www.internet2.edu/staff User Name: staff Password: Abilene Online calendar http://www.internet2.edu/calendar/main.php *Please let us know what events you are attending (lperlis@internet2.edu) 11/30/2018

Communication Pet Peeves Internet2 vs. Internet 2 vs. I2 “The Internet2,” “The Internet2 Network,” “The Sequel” What is UCAID? “The Internet2 Project” Will Internet2 replace the Internet? When-to-use-the-dashes---- Logo Use 11/30/2018

Communication Pet Peeves Solutions Use: Internet2 - no space between ‘t’ and ‘2’ Never abbreviate with I2. Internet2 backbone network – There are other high performance backbones, Abilene is not the only one. Others vBNS, NREN, DREN, ESnet. Or just plain Internet2 UCAID – Parent organization of Internet2, Abilene, and the Quilt Internet2 Project – Internet2 is no longer a project. It is a membership organization leading the next generation of advanced Internet development End-to-End Performance Initiative, Peer-to-Peer Logo Use – Keep it simple, unaltered, use ®, see styleguide for more info 11/30/2018

Logo Evolution 11/30/2018

Internet2 Styleguides and Info Kit -Download Logos, Presentation Templates, Branding Glossary (http://www.internet2.edu/resources/i2gsg.shtml) - Definitions and Terms Info Kit (http://www.internet2.edu/html/infokit.html) Info Sheets, Presentation Archives, Press Kits, Maps News Releases (http://www.internet2.edu/news/) - Latest Press Releases and Related Internet2 News Articles 11/30/2018

Other Stuff Send outside inquires about Internet2 to (info@internet2.edu). Mailing Lists http://mail.internet2.edu (Web mail, over 70 mailing lists.) 11/30/2018

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