Heather Boyles heather@internet2.edu Internet2: an overview Heather Boyles heather@internet2.edu 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. 09 October 2001

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. 4/7/2019

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. 4/7/2019

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 Spirent 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. 4/7/2019

Internet2 Goals Enable new generation of applications Re-create leading edge R&E network capability Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet These are the three primary goals of Internet2. 4/7/2019

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 4/7/2019

Why University Leadership? The Internet came from the academic community Stanford -- the Internet protocols NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet CERN -- the WWW protocols University of Illinois -- the Web browser Universities’ research and education mission require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop it 4/7/2019

Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Applications Middleware Engineering Advanced Network Infrastructure Partnerships These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. 4/7/2019

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. 4/7/2019

Virtual Laboratories Real-time access to remote instruments University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 3-D Brain Mapping Here are some examples of various applications already in use: This application links an MRI machine with a supercomputer to produce 3-D visualizations of the neurons in a patient’s brain firing in real-time. The resulting animation can be viewed by any doctor that has access to high-performance networking. These capabilities transform the process of visualizing a patient’s brain—a process that normally takes days—and allows doctor’s to work in ways not previously possible. 4/7/2019

Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago Tele-immersion Shared virtual reality University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone This is a program that allows a doctor to share a 3-D image of a complex piece of anatomy (the inner ear) with students in a way that makes teaching the anatomy much easier. By making this interactive capability available over the network, a doctor can teach students remotely. Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago 4/7/2019

Virtual Laboratories Real-time access to remote instruments University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Distributed nanoManipulator This is an application which allows remote control of an electron microscope that can actually move molecules around. The application also provides “force feed-back” to the remote operator. 4/7/2019

Music Teaching University of Oklahoma 4/7/2019

Collaboration Source: University of Illinois-Chicago Tele-cubicles and CAVEs are different interfaces used for some advanced applications. Immersion in a virtual world, or interaction among people using these interfaces allows people to interact with applications in new ways. The requirements of network applications using these kinds of displays generally require advanced networking. 4/7/2019 Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

Internet2 Backbone Networks This is an illustration of the (currently) two Internet2 backbone networks, the vBNS developed by MCI Worldcom and the National Science Foundation and Abilene, developed by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Qwest, Cisco and Indiana University. Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NCSA 4/7/2019

Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record) 4/7/2019

Abilene International Peering 22 August 2001 Abilene International Peering SEA/SNNAP AARNET, CA*net3 (TANET2, TransPAC) CHICAGO/STAR TAP APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, MIRnet, NORDUnet, RENATER, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2 (ANSP, RNP2) OC12 NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, HEANET, JANET, NORDUnet, SURFnet, TEN-155* SNVA GEMNET, SingAREN, WIDE (SINET) LOSA SINET, UNINET CALREN2 CUDI OC3 AmPATH REUNA, RNP2 (RETINA) UT El Paso CUDI 4/7/2019 * ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS

My role in Internet2 Direct international relations Develop and manage relationships with 38 countries Scout for technology developments; evangelize Internet2 work Handle international connections for Abilene network Work with engineering Thinking about the global achitecture 4/7/2019

Middleware A layer of software between the network and the applications Authentication Identification Authorization Directories Security Key: inter-institutional Middleware is a layer of software between the network and applicaitons 4/7/2019

Engineering Quality of Service Scalable IP Multicast IPv6 Original internet: best effort QoS: designating certain packets for different treatment Scalable IP Multicast IPv6 These are some of the new network capabilities that advanced networks will need to implement and which the Internet2 community is working on. 4/7/2019

Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization Today’s Internet As this diagram shows, we expect Internet2 to continue to support the partnerships that help new technologies and capabilities move from the research and development phase into commercial deployment. As further cycles of innovation and technology develop, Internet2 will continue to play this role. Internet2 Research and Development Partnerships 4/7/2019 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

More Internet2 Information On the Web www.internet2.edu Email info@internet2.edu For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact info@internet2.edu directly by email. 4/7/2019

What I’ve learned as a woman in technology No lines for the bathroom at meetings! 4/7/2019

Don't worry about the road blocks -- get in the car and drive. "What hurts women most is going into the world with a chip on their shoulder. You can do a lot more by just going out and assuming you can do it, instead of worrying about what will stop you." - Judy Estrin, founder PacketDesign and former CTO, Cisco 4/7/2019

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