The Future of the Internet and Internet2 IEC Executive 2001 Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID IEC Executive 2001 Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID June 5, 2001

6 de Abril de 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

6 de Abril de Tomorrow’s Internet Billions of users and devices Convergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV) Support mission-critical applications Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computers New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

6 de Abril de Why Internet2? The Internet was not designed for: More than 100 million 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

6 de Abril de Why University Leadership? The Internet originated in the higher education & research community Stanford -- the Internet protocols NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet CERN -- The WWW protocols University of Illinois -- The Web browser Universities require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop new Internet capabilities

6 de Abril de Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

6 de Abril de Status Current members: 187 U.S. universities 70+ for-profit corporations 40+ not-for-profit organizations In partnership with: U.S. government 30+ national networking organizations of other countries

6 de Abril de Internet2 Universities 187 Universities as of June 2001

6 de Abril de Internet2 Corporate Partners 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel AT&T Cisco Systems IBM ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies Marconi Communications Microsoft Nortel Networks Qwest Communications SBC Communications Spirent Communications WCI Cable WorldCom

6 de Abril de Internet2 Accomplishments A high-performance network for members Backbones – vBNS (NSF, Worldcom), Abilene (Qwest, Nortel, Cisco, Indiana University) Regional connectivity via gigaPoPs Campus & enterprise connectivity by members 2.4 gigabit capacity, tuned for >100 megabit streams Over 190 participating sites nationwide Linked to similar networks worldwide

6 de Abril de Internet2 Accomplishments Member development and deployment of applications requiring high performance networking Multimedia Remote operation Collaboration Large scale computation & data mining Virtual reality Peer to peer computing

6 de Abril de What We Have Learned High performance infrastructure is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient of high performance network capability. Middleware is required to scale up advanced network capabilities and applications. The Internet marketplace is slow to deploy advanced capabilities. The biggest challenges are organizational, not technological

6 de Abril de What We Are Doing End-to-End Performance Initiative Measurement, diagnostic tools, best practices, multicast, Quality of Service Internet2 Middleware Project Authentication, shared directories, PKI, security Expanded Access Sponsored by members K-20 education, libraries, museums, startup companies

6 de Abril de Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2 NSFNetARPANet NYSERNet SURANet MichNet ANS/Core PSI UUNet InternetMCI AOL GigaBit Testbeds MBone NGI Intelligent Networks

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