1. Internet2 Greg Wood Director of Communications Internet2 INET’99

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 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)

7. 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

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

9. Enabling advanced applications...

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. The CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

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

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

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

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

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

22. Middleware Initiatives  Quality of Service: QBone www.internet2.edu/qbone  Multicast  Distributed Storage: I2-DSI dsi.internet2.edu  Digital Video: I2-DV  I2MI: Glue Factory www.internet2.edu/middleware (coming soon)

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

24. Applications Engineering MotivateEnables Applications and Engineering

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

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

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

28. Internet2 GigaPoPs

29. National Networks  Internet2 Backbone Networks vBNS Abilene  NGI Backbone Networks DREN ESnet NREN …

30. 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

31. 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

32. Transferring technology and experience...

33. University of Puerto Rico not shown Internet2 Universities 154 Members as of May 1999

34. 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

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

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

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

38. www.internet2.edu TM