Internet2: What It Is and Why You Care Mary Kratz Manager, Internet2 Health Sciences RSNA November 2001

Agenda Internet2 as an Organization National High Performance Networks Advanced Internet Applications Internet2 Health Science Initiatives Hot Topics 12/9/2018

Why Internet2? The Internet was not designed for: Millions of users Congestion Multimedia Real time interaction But, only the Internet can: Accommodate explosive growth Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future 12/9/2018

Today’s Internet Doesn’t Provide reliable end-to-end performance Encourage cooperation on new capabilities Allow testing of new technologies Support development of revolutionary applications 12/9/2018

Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. Enable new generation of applications Re-create leading edge R&E network capability Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet This is the Internet2 mission. 12/9/2018

Internet2 Universities 187 Universities as of July 2001 This is the latest map of Internet2 universities. Each Internet2 university commits to providing the high performance networking on their own campus, connecting to a high-performance backbone network, and supporting advanced applications development on their own campus. 12/9/2018

Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative NGI University-led Federal agency-led Developing education and research driven applications Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Internet2 works closely with the federal agencies involved in the Next Generation Internet initiative. Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications 12/9/2018

Internet2 Corporate Partners 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel AT&T Cisco Systems IBM Intel Corporation ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies Marconi Communications Microsoft Nortel Networks Qwest Communications SBC Communications Sprint Communications WCI Cable WorldCom This is the latest list of Internet2 Corporate Partners. Corporate partners have committed to providing over US$1million in support of collaborations with Internet2 universities. 12/9/2018

Internet2 International Partners http://www. internet2 This is the latest map of Internet2 universities. Each Internet2 university commits to providing the high performance networking on their own campus, connecting to a high-performance backbone network, and supporting advanced applications development on their own campus. 12/9/2018

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Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record) 12/9/2018

Advanced Application Attributes Interactive research collaboration and instruction Real-time access to remote resources Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above 12/9/2018

Advanced Applications Distributed computation Virtual laboratories Digital libraries Distributed learning Digital video Tele-immersion All of the above in combination Advanced applications com in many flavors, and those flavors can be combined. Advanced applications share the characteristic that they require advanced network capabilities to work—they either don’t work at all, or won’t work well on today’s Internet. Enabling advanced applications is at the heart of Internet2. 12/9/2018

Grid Projects NEESGrid GriPhyN Infrastructure www.neesgrid.org www.griphyn.org Infrastructure www.gridforum.org 12/9/2018

The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup includes clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness in the Public. Enigma Machine and Bombe Armed forces have always been dependent on communications. During World War II, the German Army and Navy tried to keep their communications secret by using encryption devices called Enigma machines. These sophisticated coding devices could generate over 1 trillion different coding patterns. The Germans believed they were too sophisticated for Allied forces to break them. But in one of the best-kept secrets of the war, first the Poles, and later the British and Americans succeeded in deciphering messages. The wooden device in the foreground is a 4 rotor German Enigma machine, used for encoding. The large machine in the background is a "Bombe," used for breaking the code. Working out the details of codebreaking machines was one of the developments that fostered electronic computers. Smithsonian Photo by Laurie Minor-Penland.

With an Emphasis On: Medical applications on the Internet. Development of application tools to take advantage of Internet2 advanced network services. Leverage and influence Internet2 resources to apply solutions to the medical domain. Inform the medical community of these activities. 12/9/2018

Goals and Objectives Focus on research partnerships for advanced applications Enhance collaboration and information sharing Collaboratories Training Workshops Development of demonstrations and tools Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability 12/9/2018

Roadmap Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet National Research Council Report Current and future Internet Released 24 February 2000 National Academy Press ISBN 0-309-06843-6 12/9/2018

Health Science Working Groups Middleware Security – HIPAA Guidelines Distance Medical Education Veterinary Medical End to End Performance Visible Human Project Collaboratory Biomedical Informatics Research Network Open Source Electronic Health Record Collaboratory Clinical Trials Research Network Access Grid for Health Sciences Virtual Tumor Boards 12/9/2018

Challenges to Health Sciences "The medical research revolution is happening!  90% of data collected today will never be seen by a human eye.  This is everyone's problem. We must manage a growing amount of data to secure knowledge for the future." - Michael Marron, NIH 12/9/2018

Hot Topics Network of the Future Middleware Computational Science as an interdisciplinary field Optical Transport Technology matures Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Important distinction: transport vs. switching Transcontinental Conduits Middleware NSF funded integration role Global Grid Forum (http://www.gridforum.org/) Medical Middleware End to End Performance Initiative 12/9/2018

More Internet2 Information On the Web www.internet2.edu Email Mkratz@internet2.edu info@internet2.edu For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact info@internet2.edu directly by email. 12/9/2018

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