Internet2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher Education Greg Wood Director of Communications

Internet2 Project Goals  Enable new generation of applications  Re-create leading edge R&E network capability  Transfer capability to the global production Internet

Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization NSFNET Abilene, vBNS Advanced US Govt Networks ARPAnet gigabit testbeds Active Nets Broadban d Wireless SprintLink MCI/Worldcom US Govt Networks ANS Interoperable High Performance Research &Education Networks 21st Century Networking Quality of Service (QoS) Source: Ivan Moura Campos

Current Internet2 Priorities  Identify and develop first phase applications  Establish nationwide high performance end-to-end connectivity  Facilitate middleware implementation  Support network research  Build international collaboration opportunities

Internet2 Universities 133 as of September 1998 University of Puerto Rico not shown

Internet2 Corporate Partners  3Com  Advanced Network & Services, Inc.  AT&T  Cabletron Systems  Cisco Systems  FORE  IBM  3Com  Advanced Network & Services, Inc.  AT&T  Cabletron Systems  Cisco Systems  FORE  IBM  Lucent Technologies  MCI Worldcom  Newbridge Networks  Nortel Networks  Qwest Communications  StarBurst Communications  Lucent Technologies  MCI Worldcom  Newbridge Networks  Nortel Networks  Qwest Communications  StarBurst Communications

Internet2 Corporate Sponsors  Bell South  Packet Engines  SBC Technology Resources  StorageTek  Torrent Technologies

Internet2 Corporate Members  Alcatel Telecom  Ameritech  Apple Computers  AppliedTheory  Bell Atlantic  Bellcore  British Telecom  Deutsche Telekom  GTE Internetworking  Hitachi  IXC Communications  KDD  Nexabit Networks  Nokia Research Center  Alcatel Telecom  Ameritech  Apple Computers  AppliedTheory  Bell Atlantic  Bellcore  British Telecom  Deutsche Telekom  GTE Internetworking  Hitachi  IXC Communications  KDD  Nexabit Networks  Nokia Research Center  Novell  Pacific Bell  RR Donnelley  Siemens  Sprint  StorageTek  Sun Microsystems  Sylvan Learning  Telebeam  Williams Communications  Novell  Pacific Bell  RR Donnelley  Siemens  Sprint  StorageTek  Sun Microsystems  Sylvan Learning  Telebeam  Williams Communications

Advanced Internet Benefits  Richer content through higher bandwidth Video, audio Virtual reality Dynamic, not static  More interactivity via minimal delay  Reliable content delivery through quality of service (QoS) model

Internet2 Applications  Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of: Research Teaching Learning  Require advanced networking

Many Disciplines and Contexts  Sciences  Arts  Humanities  Health care  Business/Law  Administration  …  Instruction  Collaboration  Streaming video  Distributed computation  Data mining  Virtual reality  Digital libraries  …

Application Attributes  Interactive research collaboration and instruction  Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Images courtesy of the University of Michigan

Attributes, cont.  Large-scale, multi- site computation and database processing  Shared virtual reality  Any combination of the above Images courtesy of Old Dominion University and Univ of Illinois-Chicago

Middleware Challenges  Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable  Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a pre- commercial production environment  Examples: Quality of Service Multicast Audio/Video Frameworks

Recent Initiatives  Qbone Quality of service testbed  I2-DVN Internet2 Digital Video Network  I2-DSI Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure  DoGBone Digital video over GigaPoP

Applications Engineering MotivateEnables Applications and Engineering

 Deploy a production network to support applications R&D  Establish quality of service (QoS)  Support native multicast  Establish gigaPoPs as effective service points Engineering Objectives

I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoP One GigaPoP Four GigaPoP Two GigaPoP Three “Gigabit capacity point of presence” an aggregation point for regional connectivity Network Architecture

I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoPs, cont. GigaPoP One University A University BUniversity C Regional Network Commodity Internet Connections

GigaPoPs  Variety of services and styles Technical and organizational differences Mixture of technologies  Some things must be the same IP as common bearer service Inter-gigaPoP routing policy and design Measurement Trouble tickets among network operations centers

Internet2 GigaPoPs

Interconnect  vBNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service) NSF and MCI cooperative agreement Operating at OC12 Peers with other federally sponsored networks  Abilene Network (January 1999)

Abilene Project Goals  Support Internet2 applications development  Demonstrate next generation networking capabilities  Create facilities for network research

Abilene Project Participants  UCAID  Qwest Communications  Cisco Systems  Nortel Networks  Indiana University

Abilene Project Timeline  April 1998: Project Announced  September 1998: Prototype demonstration  January 1999: Operations begin

Abilene Network January 1999 Cleveland New York Atlanta Indianapolis Kansas City Houston Denver Los Angeles Sacramento Seattle Abilene Router Node Abilene Access Node Operational January 1999 Planned 1999

Abilene Characteristics  2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192)  Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3)  IP over Sonet technology  Access PoPs very close to university gigaPoPs

For more information...  On the Web  Internet2 Applications apps.internet2.edu  Abilene Project  Questions?