Internet2: Developments and Directions CANARIE Third Annual Advanced Networks Workshop December 15-16, 1998 Doug Van Houweling

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

Outline  Review of progress  Directions for 1999  Status Updates on: Abilene QBone Middleware  Internet2 in a global context

Progress  2+ years ago: Internet2 Project formed October 1996  1+ year ago: UCAID Incorporated October 1997  8 months ago: Abilene Launched April 1998

Today  135 universities  44 corporations  7 gigaPoPs connected to vBNS  Abilene demonstrated/nearing production  Abilene peering with vBNS, CANARIE  QoS -- QBone initiative launched  Middleware initiative launched

Challenges  Maintain focus on advanced Internet Production Internet rapidly gaining strength through incremental improvements Intranets and extranets growing  Higher education needs a production Internet capable of serving mission- critical applications and so does the rest of the world!  Internet2 implements advanced capabilities

Next Steps  Continue to interconnect member desktops and servers at high speed  Continue to support advanced applications development focus on multi-campus implementations  Adopt, develop and implement QoS end-to-end middleware end-to-end new business models

Abilene

Objectives for the Abilene Network  High availability backbone network for advanced research applications  Separate network to test advanced network capabilities  Quality of Service standards to guarantee types of availability  Multicasting and advanced security  “Separate network” to do network research

Progress  Demonstrated September 1998  In production January 1999  Add participants during 1999  Agreement to peer with vBNS, CA*net II  Interconnecting at STAR TAP/NGIX/Chicago, NGIX West, NGIX East (when decided)

Seattle Los Angeles Sacramento Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Pittsburgh Minneapolis Columbus Washington Phoenix Raleigh Oakland Anaheim Trent on Salt Lake City Wilmington Dallas Eugene New Orleans Lincoln New Haven Detroit Miami Westfield Nashville Philadelp hia Indianapolis Access NodeRouter Node Abilene Albuquerque Oklahoma City Planned 1999 Newar k Peering Point - NGIX The Abilene Network 33 Total Access Points

Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Pittsburgh Minneapolis Columbus Washington Phoenix Raleigh Trent on Salt Lake City Wilmington Dallas New Orleans Lincoln New Haven Detroit Miami Westfield Nashville Philadelp hia Indianapolis Newar k UW Pacific North West Great Plains MREN Texas One Net Directly Connected Participant MAGPI Pittsburgh (CMU) MERITMAX MCNC Abilene GigaPoPs CENIC OARnet Westnet Albuquerque Oklahoma City GigaPop Connected Participant (ALL COLORS) Access NodeRouter Node Seattle Sacramento Oakland Eugene Los Angeles Anaheim The Abilene Network 33 Total Access Points Serving 64 Members

The QBone Initiative

What is “the QBone”  Vision Significant subset of the Internet implements well- defined notions of QoS and is regarded by users as infrastructure  Testbed Interdomain DiffServ testbed being built by R&E networks Infrastructure only a graduate student could love  Initiative Internet2 initiative that includes  QBone testbed (QIG)  Intradomain solutions group (QSG)

QBone Call for Participation  CFP issued September 25th, 1998  Proposals due October 16th  Review complete October 30th  Participant Types Networks Network Engineering / Advanced Development Applications and Middleware Developers Corporate Partners

Initial Participants  13 Proposals recommended for initial QBone Interoperability Group (QIG) Abilene CAnet*2 iCAIR Consortium  APAN, CTIT, EVL, Indiana University, MREN, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, SingAREN, STAR TAP, SURFnet, TransPAC

Initial Participants (QIG) - cont’d IPPM Surveyor Project Merit / University of Michigan NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative NREN NYSERNet PSC / NLANR / CMU Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP UMN UPenn/ UMass vBNS

QBone Structure  QBone Interoperability Group (QIG) Actively building pre-production interdomain DiffServ infrastructure Works on nuts-and-bolts interoperability issues Specific phased demonstrations of interdomain QoS Participation staged to keep group focused

QBone Structure -cont’d  QBone Solutions Group (QSG) Broader discussion of engineering and deployment issues Includes teams that plan to join the QIG Focus on intradomain engineering issues Participation open to the Internet2 community  I2 QoS Working Group Architectural guardians Nurture QIG and QSG

QBone Milestones  Sep 25th - call for participation issued  Oct 27th - QFC met to finalize recommendations  Nov 30th - 1st Meeting of QBone BB Advisory Council  Dec 1st - QBone Networking Kickoff Meeting  Jan 1st - Revised QBone Architecture from I2QoSWG  Jan 26th - Next QIG Networking Meeting

Internet2 QoS Resources  QoS Working Group Home Page: Interest Mailing List:  QBone Home page:

Middleware

Middleware Challenges  Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable  Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a pre- commercial production environment  Examples: Distributed storage - I2-DSI initiative Multicast video tools - I2-DVN initiative

Applications: Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions Middleware: Security, Directory, Quality of Service, Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting, Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast Operating system and network services Standard APIs Interoperable Protocols

Technology Scope  Emphasis is on technologies that enable developing and deploying advanced research and education applications across our institutions

Technology Scope  QoS  Digital video/audio  Security  Collaboration  Directories  Multicast  File systems  Measurement  Remote instruments  IMS  Transaction systems  Meta-computing  Management  IP telephony  Accounting/billing  E-commerce  Object brokers  Search mechanisms  Printing

Initiative Overview  Deliverables Identification of a small number of key community projects Information dissemination Demos Workshops

Principles  Focus on problems where we have a unique incentive to solve the benefit to our community is clear and compelling results are attainable in a reasonable timeframe

I2-Digital Video Network

Ubiquitous Digital Video  Scalable and easy to use  Integrated into applications  Streaming and interactive  Real-time and asynchronous (stored)  Unicast and native multicast  Single source to multi-source  Resolutions up to HDTV

Distributed Storage Initiative

Objective  Develop and deploy a reliable, scalable, high performance network storage capability enabling broad access to stored video, very large data sets, etc.

Internet2 in a global context

Internet2 International Collaborations  Building peer to peer relationships  Looking for similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies  Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding  Signed: CANARIE, Stichting SURF, NORDUnet  In process: TERENA, SingAREN, JAIRC, APAN and others

Focus and Goals  Enable collaboration between researchers and educators  Ensure global interoperability of advanced technologies  Interconnect high-performance networks Abilene CA*net II/3 interconnection/peering agreement  Deploy QoS and other technologies across networks CANARIE participation in QBone initiative Joint working group meetings between CANARIE and Internet2