October 2000 © The JNT Association JISC / UKERNA Initiative Internet2 Collaborative Programme in the UK Rina Samani

October 2000 © The JNT Association Contents Page JISC / UKERNA / JANET/SuperJANET The Current Network – SuperJANET III The Next Network - SuperJANET4 The SuperJANET4 Development Programme Internet2 / JANET partnership Internet2 Collaborative Programme

October 2000 © The JNT Association Who & What is ?

October 2000 © The JNT Association Current Network (SuperJANET III) Current Network – SuperJANET III Came into service – early 1990’s Backbone – 155 Mbit/s ATM

October 2000 © The JNT Association The Next Network (SuperJANET4) Technology: IP over SDH initially, then IP over DWDM (2001/2002) Backbone – 2.4 Gbit/s (2001) going upto 20 Gbit/s (2002) Provision of a National Testbed Network Cisco GSR routers will be deployed within the core and edge of the backbone

October 2000 © The JNT Association core PoP location backbone links access links Topology

October 2000 © The JNT Association SuperJANET4 Development Programme The aim of this programme is to underpin the development of SuperJANET4, evolving over the coming years to support the applications used by the community, which is served by the network.

October 2000 © The JNT Association JANET / Internet2 partnership MoU signed between UKERNA / JISC / Internet2 on 16 th February 1999 Connectivity between JANET and Abilene established in January 2000 Areas for collaboration seen

October 2000 © The JNT Association Connectivity between JANET & Abilene established JANET have presence in New York JANET have 4 * STM 1 links to the US By mid 2001 – 6 * STM 1 links to the US

October 2000 © The JNT Association Areas for Collaboration Middleware Distributed Storage & Digital Video General Application Development Technology Development e.g. IPv6, QoS, Multicast etc Specific Collaborations

October 2000 © The JNT Association Internet2 Collaborative Programme UK & US Universities collaborating on development projects UK have contributed £600K ($1 Million) towards this programme Internet2 (US) Involvement

October 2000 © The JNT Association Stages of the Programme Call for Expressions of Interest JISC Internet2 Open Event (UK) Project Selection

October 2000 © The JNT Association Stages of the Programme Call for Expressions of Interest JISC Internet2 Open Event (UK) Project Selection

October 2000 © The JNT Association Stages of the Programme Call for Expressions of Interest JISC Internet2 Open Event (UK) Project Selection

October 2000 © The JNT Association Internet2 Collaborative Projects Project NameUK InstitutionUS Partner(s) Investigate effectiveness of QoS Daresbury LabsSLAC DIRECTUniversity of Edinburgh Tracking Standards – Internet2 Middleware Committee VIDOSUniversity of Oxford Internet2 DVI Committee Collaboration in Tele- immersive Environments University College, London University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & MIT

October 2000 © The JNT Association Internet2 Collaborative Projects Project NameUK InstitutionUS Partner(s) M3i – Pricing NetworksUniversity College, London University of California, Berkeley, BT & HP Labs LDAP, X.509 & Middleware Leeds UniversityConsortium of Universities in the NorthWest of USA Bermuda2University of Southampton CAIRN, 6INIT, NASA, CRC, BT, Microsoft & QTPv6 Establishing a Global SuperComputer University of Manchester Pittsburgh SuperComputing Centre

October 2000 © The JNT Association Sources of Information JANET publications on the Internet2 Collaborative Programme: JISC publications: Internet2 mailing list on Mailbase: SuperJANET4:

October 2000 © The JNT Association Contact Information For further information contact: –Rina Samani – –Tel:

October 2000 © The JNT Association Thank you & Questions