Internet2 Douglas Van Houweling President & CEO, UCAID ACUTA Annual Conference 19 July 1999

Computers on the Internet Source: Internet Domain Survey Millions of Computers

People on the Internet Source: Nua Internet Surveys Millions of People

Internet Economy Facts and Figures  64 Million US Adult Regular Users  Seven new people every second  $301 Billion in 1998 revenue  Doubling every 9 months  Internet Advertising generated $1.92 billion in 1998 Sources: Internet Indicators, Internet Advertising Bureau

Yesterday’s Internet  Thousands of users  Remote login, file transfer  Applications capitalize on underlying technology

Today’s Internet  Millions of users  Web, , low-quality audio & video  Applications adapt to underlying technology

Tomorrow’s Internet  Billions of users and devices  Convergence of today’s applications and services  New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization NSFNET Internet2, Abilene, vBNS Advanced US Govt. Networks ARPAnet gigabit testbeds Active Wireless DWDM SprintLink InternetMCI US Govt. Networks ANS Interoperable, High Performance Research &Education Networks 21st Century Networking Quality of Service (QoS)

Internet2 Universities 159 Members as of July 1999 University of Puerto Rico not shown

Board of Trustees  David Ward, (Chair, Board of Trustees) University of Wisconsin  Henry S. Bienen, Northwestern University  William G. Bowen, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  Molly Corbett Broad, University of North Carolina  Larry R. Faulkner, University of Texas at Austin  Steven B. Sample, University of Southern California  Graham B. Spanier, Pennsylvania State University  Eric Bloch, (Chair, Industry Strategy Council)  Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chair, Applications Strategy Council)  James Bruce, MIT (Chair, Networking Policy and Planning Advisory Council)  David Meyer, Cisco & Univ. of Oregon (Chair, Networking Research Liaison Council )  Douglas E. Van Houweling

Internet2 Goals  Enable new generation of applications  Re-create leading edge R&E network capability  Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

Enabling advanced applications...

Advanced Applications  Digital Libraries  Virtual Laboratories  Collaboration  Visualization and virtual reality  All of the above in combination

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

Digital Libraries  Informedia Project  Carnegie Mellon University

Digital Libraries  Television News Archive  Vanderbilt University

Virtual Laboratories  Distributed nanoManipulator  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Virtual Laboratories  Real-time 3-D Brain Mapping  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Collaborations  Link instruments, data sources, researchers and students

The CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

Teleimmersion  Virtural Temporal Bone  University of Illinois at Chicago Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois- Chicago

Distributed Computation  Large-scale computation  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Image courtesy of UCAR

Re-creating leading edge networking capabilities...

Applications and Engineering Networked Applications Network Engineering Enables Motivate

Initiatives  Quality of Service: QBone Quality of Service  Multicast  Distributed Storage: I2-DSI dsi.internet2.edu  Digital Video: I2-DV  I2MI: GlueWorks

Internet2 GigaPoPs

Abilene Network 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) capacity today  13,000+ miles of circuits  70+ universities connected by end of 1999  Interconnects with other national R&E networks  Built on contributions from Qwest, Nortel, Cisco, and Indiana Univ.

Transferring technology and experience...

Internet2 Corporate Partners  Lucent Technologies  MCI Worldcom  Microsoft  Newbridge Networks  Nortel Networks  Packet Engines  Qwest Communications  StarBurst  WCI Cable  Xylan  3Com  Advanced Network & Services  Ameritech  AT&T  Cabletron Systems  Cisco Systems  FORE Systems  IBM  ITC^Deltacom

Internet2 Corporate Sponsors  Bell South  Compaq  Ericsson (formerly Torrent Networking Technologies)  Litton Network Access Systems  Novell  SBC Technology Resources  StorageTek

Internet2 Corporate Members  Alcatel Telecom  Apple Computer  AppliedTheory Communications  Bell Atlantic  British Telecom  Deutsche Telekom  Fujitsu Laboratories of America  GTE Internetworking  Hitachi  IXC Communications  KDD  Motorola  Nexabit Networks  Nokia Research Center  NTT Multimedia  Pacific Bell  Alcatel Telecom  Apple Computer  AppliedTheory Communications  Bell Atlantic  British Telecom  Deutsche Telekom  Fujitsu Laboratories of America  GTE Internetworking  Hitachi  IXC Communications  KDD  Motorola  Nexabit Networks  Nokia Research Center  NTT Multimedia  Pacific Bell  Project OXYGEN  RR Donnelley  Siemens  Sprint  Sun Microsystems  Sylvan Learning  Tachyon  Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore)  Telebeam  Teleglobe  TransMedia Communications  VTEL  Williams Communications Grp.  Worldport Communications Inc.  Project OXYGEN  RR Donnelley  Siemens  Sprint  Sun Microsystems  Sylvan Learning  Tachyon  Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore)  Telebeam  Teleglobe  TransMedia Communications  VTEL  Williams Communications Grp.  Worldport Communications Inc.

Technology Transfer Conduits  Collaborating on advanced applications  Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols  Establishing expertise and human capital

More Time Performance Less hype technological potential actual performance reality gap Innovating to Close the Gap

Network Convergence  Common bearer service (IP)  End to end capability  Applications driven  Media types integrated for natural interpersonal interaction

Ubiquitous Connectivity  Steadily lower prices  Task-specific and everyday devices  Machine-to-machine network traffic  Nomadic connections

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

Higher Education Leadership  Virtual organizations  Distributed management  Global reach  Intangible value for the knowledge economy  Collaboration with industry & government to push the frontier together

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