11 April 2000 Internet2: Accelerating the Creation of Tomorrow’s Internet Greg Wood Director of Communications, Internet2

11 April Internet2 FAQ What (and why) is Internet2? Will Internet2 replace today’s Internet? Will there by an Internet3? How (or when) can I connect to Internet2 from home? What’s your stock ticker symbol?

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

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

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

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

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

11 April More Time Performance Less hype technological potential actual performance The Network Performance Gap performance gap

11 April Internet2 Land Speed Record 831 Megabits per second across 5262 Kilometers Team Information Sciences Institute at USC Microsoft Qwest Communications University of Washington

11 April Internet2 Land Speed Record Moving a Music CD across the country

11 April Today’s Internet Doesn’t Provide reliable end-to-end performance Encourage cooperation on new capabilities Allow testing of new technologies Support development of revolutionary applications

11 April Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

11 April Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

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

11 April Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Applications Middleware Advanced Network Infrastructure New Network Capabilities Partnerships Technology Transfer

11 April Advanced Applications Distributed computation Virtual laboratories Digital libraries Distributed learning Digital Video Tele-immersion All of the above in combination

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

11 April Virtual Laboratories Real-time access to remote instruments University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Distributed nanoManipulator

11 April Tele-immersion Shared virtual reality University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois- Chicago

11 April Tele-cubicles and the CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

11 April Digital Libraries Video and audio Indiana University Variations Project

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

11 April Middleware A layer of software between the network and the applications Authentication Identification Authorization Directories Security

11 April Internet2 Middleware Initiative Internet2 community has unique needs and capabilities Middleware Architecture Committee for Education Early Harvest and Early Adopters PKI Shibboleth (authentication) Computational middleware (Beta Grid) Medical middleware Directories

11 April Applications Engineering MotivateEnables Applications and Engineering

11 April Internet2 Network Infrastructure Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today GigaPoPs provide regional high- performance aggregation points Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop

11 April Internet2 Backbone Networks GigaPoP One Internet2 Network Architecture GigaPoP Two GigaPoP Four GigaPoP Three

11 April Network Architecture Internet2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoP One Regional Network University C Commercial Internet Connections University B University A

11 April Internet2 Backbone Networks Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NCSA

11 April Internet2 GigaPoPs 27 as of March 2000

11 April New Network Capabilities Quality of Service: QBone Scalable IP Multicast IPv6 Distributed Storage: I2-DSI Digital Video: I2-DV I2MI: GlueWorks

11 April Internet2 Partnerships Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy Industry Government International

11 April Internet2 Universities 176 Universities as of March 2000

11 April Internet2 Corporate Partners ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies MCI Worldcom Microsoft Newbridge Networks Netcom Systems Nortel Networks Qwest Communications WCI Cable 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel Ameritech AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE Systems IBM

11 April University-led Federal agency-led Developing education and research driven applications Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative Internet2NGI

11 April International MoU Partners AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CANARIE (Canada) CESnet (Czech Republic) CUDI (Mexico) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) Fundacion Internet 2 Argentina (Argentina) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) JAIRC (Japan) NORDUnet (Nordic countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) SingAREN (Singapore) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TAnet (Taiwan) TERENA (Europe) JISC/UKERNA (UK)

11 April Additional Participation Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members Over 30 Affiliate Members

11 April Technology Transfer Conduits Collaborating on advanced applications Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols Establishing expertise and human capital Large-scale proof of concept

11 April Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

11 April Advanced Networking on the Web (National Teleimmersion Initiative)

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