Internet2: nuevas aplicaciones gracias a la banda ancha Heather Boyles INTERNET’99 4 de febrero Madrid

History  ARPAnet origins  NSFnet Privatization in 1995  Higher ed planning in 1995/1996 Are our research and education needs being met by today’s internet?

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

What is Internet2?  a project  led by universities  to develop and deploy new Internet applications and technologies  in order to meet the university mission of research and education

History of Internet2  1986/ : NSFnet  1994/5: NSFnet privatized  1995/6: universities articulate requirements for next generation networking  October 1996: Internet2 Project formed  October 1997: UCAID formed  April 1998: Abilene Project Announced  September 1998: Middleware Initiative Announced  January 1999: Abilene in Production

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

UCAID Member Universities 141 Members as of January 1999 University of Puerto Rico not shown

Internet2 Corporate Partners  3Com  Advanced Network & Services, Inc.  AT&T  Cabletron Systems  Cisco Systems  FORE  IBM  3Com  Advanced Network & Services, Inc.  AT&T  Cabletron Systems  Cisco Systems  FORE  IBM  Lucent Technologies  MCI Worldcom  Newbridge Networks  Nortel Networks  Qwest Communications  StarBurst Communications  Lucent Technologies  MCI Worldcom  Newbridge Networks  Nortel Networks  Qwest Communications  StarBurst Communications

Internet2 Corporate Sponsors  Bell South  Packet Engines  SBC Technology Resources  StorageTek  Torrent Technologies

Internet2 Corporate Members  Alcatel Telecom  Ameritech  Apple Computer  AppliedTheory  Bell Atlantic  Bellcore  British Telecom  Compaq/DEC  Deutsche Telekom  Fujitsu  GTE Internetworking  Hitachi  IXC Communications  KDD  Alcatel Telecom  Ameritech  Apple Computer  AppliedTheory  Bell Atlantic  Bellcore  British Telecom  Compaq/DEC  Deutsche Telekom  Fujitsu  GTE Internetworking  Hitachi  IXC Communications  KDD  Nexabit Networks  Nokia Research Center  Novell  NTT Multimedia  Pacific Bell  RR Donnelley  Siemens  Sprint  Sun Microsystems  Sylvan Learning  Telebeam  Teleglobe  Williams Communications  Nexabit Networks  Nokia Research Center  Novell  NTT Multimedia  Pacific Bell  RR Donnelley  Siemens  Sprint  Sun Microsystems  Sylvan Learning  Telebeam  Teleglobe  Williams Communications

Internet2 Applications  Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of: Research Teaching Learning  Require advanced networking

Advanced Networking  Richer content through higher bandwidth Video, audio Virtual reality Dynamic not static  More interactivity via minimal delay  Reliable delivery through quality of service model

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

Virtual Laboratories  Interactive research and instruction  Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Images courtesy of the University of Michigan

Virtual Laboratories  Real-time access to remote instruments  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 3-D Brain Mapping

Digital Libraries  Video and audio  Indiana University Variations Project

Distributed Computation  Multi-site databases  Old Dominion University Chesapeake Bay Simulation Image courtesy of Old Dominion University

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

Teleimmersion  Shared virtual reality  University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone Images courtesy Univ of Illinois- Chicago

Middleware  Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable security collaborations services  digital voice and video filters/agents for persistent online presence technologies for control of remote instrumentation distributed file services

 Services required in the network to enable advanced applications: Establish quality of service (QoS)quality of service (QoS Support native multicast The Network

Applications Engineering MotivateEnables Applications and Engineering

I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoP One GigaPoP Four GigaPoP Two GigaPoP Three “Gigabit capacity point of presence” an aggregation point for regional connectivity Network Architecture

I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoPs, cont. GigaPoP One University A University BUniversity C Regional Network Commodity Internet Connections E.g. vBNS, Abilene

Internet2 GigaPoPs

Abilene Project  Provide advanced network testbed  Support Internet2 applications development  Demonstrate next generation operational and quality of service capabilities  Create facilities for network research

Abilene Network January 1999 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) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192)  Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3)  IP over Sonet technology  Access PoPs very close to almost all of the anticipated university gigaPoPs

Abilene Schedule  Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting, in pre-production at several universities, connected to Chicago switch for STAR TAP  Janurary 1999: Initial set of members connected in production mode  By December 1999: around 65 institutions connected

For UCAID Members  Involvement in the decisions  Responsive to continuing needs  Driven by member research  Potential for increasing connectivity for all UCAID university members wanting to participate in Research Goals.

Current Priorities  Establish backbone connectivity  Facilitate middleware implementation  Support network research  Identify and develop first phase applications  Build international collaboration opportunities

US Federal Government: Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program  Established in parallel with Internet2  multi-agency research and development (R&D) program to develop, test, and demonstrate advanced networking technologies and applications  via testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today's Internet

Internet2 NGI Relationship  Similar technical objectives  Focused on different, but complementary communities NGI: Federal Mission agencies UCAID/Internet2: university research and education community  Working to interconnect, make interoperable federal research networks and Abilene

Internet2 NGI Relationship cont’d  Cooperative programs: NSF High Performance Connections grants: UCAID universities using to connect to achieve Internet2 connectivity Abilene Energy, NASA network interconnection: being planned to provide high performance access for universities to research labs Applications: researchers benefit from numerous federal grants that help develop applications

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

What kind of collaborations?  Network interconnection Abilene and CA*net2, SURFnet, NORDUnet, etc.  Specific project collaboration QBone middleware research/learning applications  Technology transfer mutual industrial participants?

Information exchange  International task force to advise our Board, management on issues of international collaborations  Greater participation in international groups CCIRN GIBN

Recap:  “It’s the applications, stupid!”  Bandwidth is important, but not everything (think qos!)  Technology transfer is crucial: universities (and everybody else) need to buy this stuff in a competitive commercial marketplace

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