1. Internet2

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

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

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

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

6. Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2

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

8. Enabling advanced applications...

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

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

11. Collaborations  Link instruments, data sources, researchers and students

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

13. Virtual Laboratories  Real-time access to remote instruments  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Distributed nanoManipulator

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

15. The CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

16. Digital Libraries  Video and audio  Indiana University Variations Project Variations Project

17. TV News Archive  Vanderbilt University  Started in 1968  Over 30,000 separate newscasts  Over 9,000 hours of news specials

18. Digital Libraries  Video and audio  Internet2, iCAIR, IBM Internet2 Videospace Internet2 Videospace

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

20. Re-creating leading edge networking capabilities...

21. Middleware Initiatives  Quality of Service: QBone www.internet2.edu/qbone  Multicast  Distributed Storage: I2-DSI dsi.internet2.edu  Digital Video: I2-DV i2dv.nwu.icair.edu  I2MI: Glue Factory www.internet2.edu/middleware

22. Internet2 Working Groups  IPv6  Measurement  Multicast  Network Management  Network Storage  Quality of Service  Routing  Security  Topology

23. Applications Engineering MotivateEnables Applications and Engineering

24.  Campus networks  GigaPoPs  National backbones End-to-End Networks

25. “Typical” Internet2 Campus Network  100 Mbps to the desktop  ATM campus backbone  DS-3 to OC-12 connection to the gigaPoP

26. Internet2 GigaPoPs  Predate Internet2  Aggregate supply and demand  Provides center of expertise  Extend

27. Internet2 GigaPoPs

28. National Networks  Internet2 Backbone Networks vBNS Abilene  Federal Backbone Networks DREN ESnet NREN …

29. 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

30. Abilene Characteristics  2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today  13,000+ miles of circuits  70+ universities connected by end of 1999  National testbed for leading edge technologies  Interconnecting with other national R&E networks

31. Transferring technology and experience...

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

33. 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

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

35. Advanced Networking on the Web  www.internet2.edu  www.internet2.edu/abilene  www.ngi.gov  www.vbns.net  www.advanced.org (National Teleimmersion Initiative)

36. For More Internet2 Information  On the Web www.internet2.edu archives.internet2.edu  Email info@internet2.edu

37. www.internet2.edu TM