Dulce Carrillo, Samantha Howald, Jayson Slama 6 April 2011

 Internet 2 is basically an innovated way faster version of the regular Internet we all use. This internet is limited to many few users and who knows when we will use it in the future.  Pulls down files in a touch instead of minutes  Limited  and its backbone is made up entirely of large- capacity fiber-optic cables. Rather than Internet1  As a result, Internet2 moves data 100 to 1,000 times faster than the old-fashioned Internet.  More than 200 universities, 70 private companies, 45 government agencies, and 45 international organizations log on to Internet2 every day.

History, Goals & Strategies…Oh My!

 In 1996 Internet2 was formed by 34 university researchers ◦ Michael M Roberts, project director  Promotes the missions of over 300 members  Provides both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities  Beyond just providing network capacity, Internet2 actively engages our community in the development of important new technology Michael M Roberts excepting his position as project director for Internet2. President and CEO H. David Lambert

 4 goals have been identified that fulfill the mission of Internet2: o Goal I – To design, operate, and continually advance a leading-edge research and education network as a national asset o Goal II – To provide researchers and scholars with the tools and support they need to envision and execute the next generation of collaborative discovery o Goal III – To maintain vigorous partnership, outreach, and advocacy programs to mutually develop, promote, and share the transformational power of cyberinfrastructure throughout various communities o Goal IV – To operate the Internet2 organization as a commendable membership organization with empowered leadership, financial simplicity and member engagement at all levels in order to achieve the membership's shared objectives as communicatived through participatory governance and continuous assessment

 Operate the national research and education network  Ensure user access to standards-based tools and services  Leverage our leadership in middleware and security  Develop a clear model for enabling network research  Become the “community commons” for cyberinfrastructure  Develop an effective advocacy program to advance cyberinfrastructure  Promote innovation and technology transfer with corporate members  Ensure that members embrace their shared commitments

The Internet2 Network's physical implementation is made up of several robust, logically different, but related networks, each on its own overlaid infrastructure.

“Internet2 was never designed to replace the Internet most of us are using now. It's more like a beach or a restaurant—great when not too many people know about it, frustrating when everybody and his mother starts to show up. “

Applications

 The focus of Internet2 is on enabling applications. It isn't possible to forecast all the applications we will see, however a sample of current ideas and applications will give us a taste of the future.

 Digital libraries featuring streaming high-quality audio and video content, large bitmap scanned images that appear instantaneously on the screen, and new forms of data visualization.  Music instruction with high-quality, multi-channel, multi- party audio and video; interactivity, to support ensemble playing and music/dance improvisation; and synchronization of audio, video, and annotations.  Tele-medicine, including remote diagnosis and monitoring.

Remote Surgery Columbus, OH -- January 7, An audience watched a surgeon sew up a herniated bladder as another surgeon, two miles away in the Rhodes State Office Tower, collaborated with him as part of a live demonstration of Internet2 technology on January 11.

 Remote surgery is made available through advances in advanced networking applications such as haptics (touch-sensitive or tactile enabling technologies.  Internet2 is enabling pioneering scientists in medical and technical fields to make minimally-invasive, Internet-based surgery techniques a future reality

 The Office of the Future project is striving to to bring together geographically distant persons in a realistic, tele-collaborative environment  Using real-time computer vision techniques, dynamic 3D images of your colleague in their office surroundings are captured and transmitted to your Office of the Future where virtual reality technology is used to create a life-size, visual portal into the distant space.

Tele-vator is a computerized excavation backhoe that can be remotely operated over Internet2 High Performance networks.

 Tele-vator requires a high level of sophisticated two-way feedback, including adequate depth of vision provided via high-definition stereovision.  Guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS) — such as network bandwidth, latency (delay) control, and jitter (variability in delay) control — are essential to insure the quality of the 3D image, audio, and equipment control channels required by Tele- vator´s remote operators

The Nano-Manipulator is an interface to scanning probe microscopes (SPM) allowing users to see, feel, and manipulate samples ranging in size from DNA to single atoms.

 A nanoManipulator can be used collaboratively by scientists in a "virtual laboratory" environment that allows remote access to a shared microscope and previously collected data.  the typical scientific experiment using the nanoManipulator lasts for many hours, creating a long-lived high demand on the network.

 The possibilities of internet 2 are endless and are changing daily.  Overall internet 2 is much faster an more capable than our current form of internet yet with more power comes more responsibility.

 Is Internet2 a separate network? Will Internet2 replace the current commercial Internet?  How will Internet2 benefit current Internet users?  How much is being invested in Internet2 and where is the money coming from?  What are some of Internet2's long-term goals?

 Internet2 is a lot faster than the internet we use today, but we can’t use it..yet! Internet2 members and institutions are aiming to share their knowledge to many computer users today. This approach characterized the first Internet and it can work again today.

Thank you very much!