Pfizer Internet2 Day Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID Internet2: an overview Pfizer Internet2 Day Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID 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. 11 January 2002

What Is Internet2? A project of the university community working with our corporate colleagues and government to close the gap between the potential and reality of the Internet 4/24/2019

Internet2 Universities 190 Universities as of January 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. 4/24/2019

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. 4/24/2019

Internet2 Corporate Partners 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel AT&T Cisco Systems IBM Intel Corporation ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies Microsoft Nortel Networks Qwest Communications SBC Communications Spirent Communications 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. 4/24/2019

Additional Participation Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members Over 40 Affiliate Members Over 30 International Partners There are also over a total of 70 corporate members (including corporate partners) in Internet2, and over 30 affiliate members. 4/24/2019

Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. This is the Internet2 mission. 4/24/2019

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. 4/24/2019

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 4/24/2019

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 Today’s Internet has serious shortcomings. Some of them are performance or technically related, which limit the kinds of applications and capabilities the Internet can support. Other limitations affect the ability to innovate new capabilities that would address some of the performance and technical limitations. 4/24/2019

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 4/24/2019

Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization Today’s Internet This spiral represents one way of looking at the development of the Internet. As the Internet moved from a research project to a commercial service, a set of partnerships fostered its development. During this process, the Internet grew in a number of ways: size, complexity, bandwidth, etc. Internet2 is forming the partnerships needed for technologies in a second cycle of innovation make their way into the commercial Internet. Internet2 Research and Development Partnerships 4/24/2019 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware Engineering Advanced Applications Partnerships These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. 4/24/2019

Internet2 Network Infrastructure Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today, Abilene now being upgraded to 10 Gbps (OC192) GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop This is a broad generalization of the Internet2 network infrastructure. 4/24/2019

Abilene Network Logical Map 4/24/2019

Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record) 4/24/2019

Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware Engineering Advanced Applications Partnerships These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. 4/24/2019

Middleware A layer of software between the network and the applications Authentication Identification Authorization Directories Security Middleware is a layer of software between the network and applicaitons 4/24/2019

Internet2 Middleware Initiative Internet2 community has unique needs and capabilities Middleware Architecture Committee for Education Early Harvest and Early Adopters Internet2 PKI Labs Shibboleth (authentication) Computational middleware (Beta Grid) Medical middleware Directories The commercial development of middleware has lagged. These are some of the activities and work underway within the Internet2 community. 4/24/2019

Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware Engineering Advanced Applications Partnerships These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. 4/24/2019

Engineering Working Groups http://www.internet2.edu/html/working-groups.html IPv6 Measurement Multicast Quality of Service Routing Security Topology These are some of the new network capabilities that advanced networks will need to implement and which the Internet2 community is working on. 4/24/2019

Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware Engineering Advanced Applications Partnerships These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. 4/24/2019

Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware Engineering Advanced Applications Partnerships These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. 4/24/2019

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. 4/24/2019

National Networks Internet2 Backbone Networks vBNS Abilene Federal Backbone Networks DREN ESnet NREN SuperNet … 4/24/2019

Technology Transfer Conduits Collaborating on advanced applications Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols Establishing expertise and human capital Large-scale proof of concept A primary goal of Internet2 is to ensure the rapid adoption of new capabilities in the global Internet. Internet2 Corporate Partners play an important role in ensuring these technologies are broadly deployed. The Internet2 community provides a way for new capabilities to be tested. Many of the students at universities take the experience and expertise they gain through their university’s participation in Internet2 with them when they move into the commercial world. 4/24/2019

International Partnerships Ensure global interoperability of advanced networking technologies and applications Enable collaborations between US researchers at Internet2 institutions and their non-US counterparts 4/24/2019

International MoU Map 4/24/2019

Unanticipated Innovation Lesson of the Web Network growth and value are non-linear New technologies enable qualitatively different uses Users become innovators 4/24/2019

More Internet2 Information On the Web www.internet2.edu www.internet2.edu/html/lists.html Email info@internet2.edu For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact info@internet2.edu directly by email. 4/24/2019

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