What is Internet2? Mary Kratz, Internet2 http://www.internet2.edu/health What is Internet2? Mary Kratz, Internet2 SICOT/SIROT 2002 XXII World Congress Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie San Diego Convention Center - San Diego, CA, USA 29 August 2002 Introduction What is Internet2? Mission Advanced Research and Education Network Consortium # Members [Network Map] current backbone topology and speeds - GigaPOPs Relationship with other networks - National Peering Arrangements - Local Networks - International Peering Arrangements Future of the backbone - upgrade to OC-192 - etc What is an Internet2 Application Current Applications Attributes - Examples - NEES - HENP - STAR How Astronomy will work - eVLBI

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 2/22/2019

Challenges for Today’s Internet Provide reliable end-to-end performance Cooperate on developing and deploying new capabilities Allow testing of new technologies Support development of revolutionary applications 2/22/2019

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. 2/22/2019

Leadership University presidents/chancellors are the voting representatives Strong Board of Directors Advisory councils with board seats Applications Strategy Council Network Planning and Policy Network Research Liaison Industry Liaison Council 2/22/2019

Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization ANS/Core PSI MichNet Today’s Internet AOL UUNet SURANet InternetMCI NYSERNet ANS Intelligent Networks GigaBit Testbeds ARPANet NSFNet NGI MBone Internet2 Research and Partnerships Development 2/22/2019

Internet2 Partnerships Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy Industry Government International Partnerships are the foundation of how the Internet developed and they are also a part of the foundation of Internet2. 2/22/2019

Internet2 Universities 200 University Members, September 2002 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. 2/22/2019

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 2/22/2019

Internet2 Corporate Partners 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. 2/22/2019

International MoU Partners Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand) SingAREN (Singapore) TAnet2 (Taiwan) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CUDI (Mexico) CRNET2 (Costa Rica) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP2 (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) 2/22/2019

Abilene 2/22/2019

Abilene Backbone Network 2/22/2019

International Transit Network STAR TAP APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERnet, GEMNET, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, RENATER, REUNA, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2, (ANSP, RNP2) NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, JANET, NORDUnet, SURFnet, TEN-551, (HEAnet) AmPATH (REUNA, RNP2, ETINA) UT El Paso (CUDI) 1 ARNES, BELNET, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS STTL CA*net3, AARnet SNVA GEMNET, (SINET) LOSA SingAREN, SINET, UNINET CALREN2 CUDI OC 3-12 OC 12 2/22/2019

Advanced Application Attributes Interactive collaboration and instruction Real-time access to remote resources Large-scale, multi-site computation Distributed data storage and data mining Shared virtual reality Dynamic data visualization Any combination of the above 2/22/2019

Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record) 2/22/2019

Healthcare in the Information Age

Health Science Activities The scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup includes clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness in the public. 2/22/2019

Health Science Activities Medical Middleware Working Group Security Working Group HIPAA Guidelines Veterinary Medical Working Group Visible Human Project Collaboratory Orthopedic Surgery Working Group ** Bioethics BOF Multi Center Clinical Trails SIG Virtual Grand Rounds; Tumor Board; Radiology Board Knowledge Management Systems Health Surveillance and disease prevention Health promotion and education Pharmaceutical information management BOF Telesurgery SIG Biomedical Research Network and Testbeds 2/22/2019

Security and Privacy Guidelines 2/22/2019

Distributed Medical Informatics Education Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh Covers a broad range of fields including electronic medical records and information retrieval Distance learning provides students with access to faculty, expertise, and other students Medical informatics is a broad field spanning electronic medical records, telemedicine, information retrieval, image processing and analysis, bioinformatics, and evaluation methodologies. Using Internet2 high-speed networking and distance learning modalities, students in the informatics programs within Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh have access to a broader range of faculty, areas of subject expertise, and other students with whom to collaborate. http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ http://www.cbmi.upmc.edu/ 2/22/2019

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) http://birn.ncrr.nih.gov/ http://www.nbirn.net/ 2/22/2019

Virtual Tumor Board 2/22/2019

Support of Community through Knowledge Sharing Internet2 acts as a clearinghouse to help distribute information Technical meetings Virtual presentations Development of demonstrations and tools Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability Technical Support Software tools (monitoring, diagnostic) Loaner hardware (Vbrick, Cakebox, Access Grid) Access to expertise (working groups) Internet2 “Commons” 2/22/2019

Lessons of the Web Unanticipated innovation Network growth and value are non-linear New technologies enable qualitatively different uses Users become innovators 2/22/2019

More Internet2 Information On the Web www.internet2.edu www.internet2.edu/health Email Mary Kratz, Health Sciences Project Manager (mkratz@internet2.edu) info@internet2.edu health@internet2.edu For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact info@internet2.edu directly by email. 2/22/2019

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