1. Trabajo Colaborativo sobre Redes Avanzadas
Plenaria
Steve Corbató, Director Backbone Infrastructure, Internet2 Ana Preston, Project Manager, International, Internet2
2do. Encuentro Internacional Ciencia, Cultura y Educacion sobre Internet2
Valdivia, Chile
10 Abril 2002

2. Outline Overview: what is Internet2? Applications: Collaborative Work
Advanced Networking Infrastructure: The future of Abilene
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3. 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
maybe
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4. Internet2 Mission and Goals
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
Enable new generation of applications
Create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
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5. Internet2 Members 190 universities (yellow dots) 70 corporations
40 non-profits and gov’t labs
This is the latest map of Internet2 universities. Each Internet2 university commits to providing the high performance networking on their own campus, connecting to a high-performance backbone network, and supporting advanced applications development on their own campus.
Partnerships are the foundation of how the Internet developed and they are also a part of the foundation of Internet2.
Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy
Industry
Government
International
Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members
Over 40 Affiliate Members
Government Research Agencies
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
NASA
NOAA
USGS (Earth Resources Observations Systems)
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6. Internet2/U.S. Government Separate but Interdependent
U.S. Next Generation Internet
Led by Federal government
Focused on Federal agency needs
Internet2
Led by higher education
Focused on research and education needs
Interdependent:
Government agency funding to research, connections, applications development
Science and engineering funded projects increasingly dependent on persistent, high-performance infrastructure provided by Internet2
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7. Internet2 International Goals
Ensure global interoperability
of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications
Enable global collaboration
in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally
Build effective partnerships in other countries
With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities
Collaborate on technology development and deployment
Facilitate collaboration between members on applications
Encourage technology transfer
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8. International MoU Partners
Europe-Middle East
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CARNET (Croatia)
CESnet (Czech Republic)
DANTE (Europe)
DFN-Verein (Germany)
GIP RENATER (France)
GRNET (Greece)
HEAnet (Ireland)
HUNGARNET (Hungary)
INFN-GARR (Italy)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
NORDUnet (Nordic Countries)
POL-34 (Poland)
RCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TERENA (Europe)
JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)
Asia-Pacific
AAIREP (Australia)
APAN (Asia-Pacific)
APAN-KR (Korea)
APRU (Asia-Pacific)
CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)
JAIRC (Japan)
JUCC (Hong Kong)
NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand)
SingAREN (Singapore)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
Americas
CANARIE (Canada)
CRNET (Costa Rica)
CUDI (Mexico)
REUNA (Chile)
RETINA (Argentina)
RNP2 / ANSP (Brazil)
SENACYT (Panama)
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9. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Applications Middleware Engineering
Advanced Network Infrastructure
Partnerships
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
Notes on MW: A layer of software between the network and the applications (Authentication, Identification, Authorization, Directories, Security)
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10. Different Disciplines/Contexts
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration …
Library
Classroom
Clinic
Office
Laboratory
Dorm room …
Science and research are becoming progressively more global with network-enabled world wide collaborative communities rapidly forming in a broad range of areas
Many are based around a few expensive – sometimes unique – instruments or distributed complexes of sensors that produce vast amounts of data
These global communities will carry out research based on this data
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11. Advanced Application Attributes
Interactive collaboration & instruction
Real-time access to remote resources
Large-scale, multi-site computation
Distributed data storage and data mining
Shared virtual reality
Dynamic data visualization
Any combination of the above
Protein folds – picture
Colaboracion e instruccion colaborativa
Accesso en tiempo real a recursos que estan localizados remotamente o a distancia
Computacion de multi sitio y a larga escala
Almacenamiento distribuido y mineo de datos
Visualizacion dinamica de datos
Cualquier combinacion
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12. Digital Video Applications
Up to broadcast quality videoconferencing
Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content
HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …
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13. Teaching Music with Advanced Network Videoconferencing
University of Oklahoma
Real-time interaction with the world’s foremost master teachers of music
Accurate representation of sound
Supplement to traditional music teaching
By using videoconferencing over high-performance networks, students in Oklahoma can interact, in real-time, with some of the world’s foremost master teachers of instrumental music. Music faculty have the opportunity to extend their teaching worldwide and to collaborate remotely with colleagues anywhere. Internet2 provides sufficient bandwidth and minimal network delay to allow the type of full-motion (30-frames per second) video and accurate representation of sound that make it feasible for classical musicians to collaborate from remote locations. This technology will never replace live, in-person music teaching; but serves as a supplement to the traditional music-teaching environment.
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14. Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System
Caltech and CERN
Worldwide video-conferencing service and collaborative environment
Web-based system
Averages 100 multipoint worldwide sessions each month
The Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System (VRVS) provides a worldwide videoconferencing service and collaborative environment to the research and education communities. VRVS uses the Internet2 high-performance network infrastructure to deploy its Web-based system, which now includes more than 4000 registered hosts running VRVS software in more than 50 different countries. VRVS hosts an average of 100-multipoint videoconference and collaborative sessions worldwide every month. First implemented in 1997, VRVS continues to expand and implement new digital video technologies, including H.323 ITU standard integration, MPEG-2 videoconferencing integration, shared environments, and Quality of Service.
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15. ViDeNet Video and Voice over IP environment
The Video Development Initiative
Video and Voice over IP environment
Users communicate over IP phone or desktop videoconferencing systems
A project of the Video Development Initiative
ViDeNet is a video and voice-over-IP environment that allows users to communicate with other ViDeNet sites around the globe using any combination of IP telephone, wireless IP phone, desktop videoconferencing, or teleclassroom systems. ViDeNet is a project of the Video Development Initiative (ViDe), a collaboration of 13 universities and other members of the international advanced networking community working together to advance the state of networked digital video. ViDe sponsors working groups, who are exploring such areas as video-on-demand and the MPEG-4 video standard, and provides a popular videoconferencing “Cookbook.”
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16. Megaconference World’s largest videoconference
Internet2 Digital Videoconferencing Group
World’s largest videoconference
Uses H.323 videoconferencing and a system of distributed MCU’s located around the world
The Megaconference events are the world’s largest H.323 videoconferences. Megaconference brings together participants from locations all over the world, including Antarctica. Held in conjunction with the Fall Internet2 Member Meetings, Megaconference participants discuss how to use H.323 videoconferencing to enhance distance learning and collaboration. Megaconference II, held in fall 2000, utilized a system of distributed H.323 multipoint control units, located around the world, which were cascaded together to create this global videoconference. Megaconference events are generally held every fall in conjunction with the Internet2 Member Meetings.
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17. Source: Argonne National Laboratory
Access Grid
Source: Argonne National Laboratory
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18. Telepresence environment
Real-time interactions with very high quality audio and MPEG-2 video
as needed “meetings” connecting faculty and staff across the ocean
via DFN  GEANT (2 2.5 Gigabit per second to Abilene)
The Global Conference System at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business provides a 'telepresence environment' enabling real-time interactions with extremely high-quality audio and MPEG-2 video. Fuqua's Global Conference System telepresence environment allows staff and faculty to meet on an as-needed basis by just walking into a conference room that is connected to another conference room across the ocean via Internet2 networks and DFN, the German high-performance research and education network. Future uses of this technology will allow Fuqua faculty, staff, and students to meet with corporate executives at companies such as 3Com, AOL/Time-Warner and others who also have telepresence facilities.
Telepresence is an exciting advance in collaborative applications, in which Fuqua is playing a leadership role among both business schools and international collaborations. A close partnership between Internet2 and DFN assisted in establishing the high-performance transoceanic connection used by the Global Conferencing System. The network path includes two 2.5 gigabit per second connections that GEANT, the European research backbone network, recently established with the Abilene network. DFN is a GEANT consortium partner.
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19. NLM Testbed for Collaborative Videoconferencing
National Library of Medicine
Provides an environment for videoconferencing in distance learning programs
Transmits a variety of medical information, including data from instruments
The National Library of Medicine provides a testbed environment demonstrating the use of MPEG-2 videoconferencing and NTSC quality video over Internet2 networks and the Next Generation Internet (NGI) for use in telemedicine/consultation and distance learning programs. Quality of service requirements for healthcare applications on high-performance networks are being researched concerning the integrity of the information being transmitted and the value added by real-time interaction. The testbed environment allows point to point and multi-point videoconferencing (via multicast) between collaborating sites, and also allows transmission of a range of medical content from varied sources, including presentation stands, videomicroscopes, videotape, digital stethoscopes, and otoscopes. Demonstrations of the technology are ongoing and configuration of the testbed continues to evolve.
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20. The Grid Instruments Libraries Workstations People Data sets
Global resources available to communities of researchers
The protocols, services, and applications that enable new forms of collaboration
People
Data sets
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21. Example: Grid Physics Network - GryPhyN
Petabyte scale environment for data-intensive applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory)
S/W infrastructure
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22. http://www.ivdgl.org and http://igoc.iu.edu*
and
* H. Newman

23. Support of Community through Knowledge Sharing
Internet2 acts as a clearinghouse to help distribute information
Technical meetings
Virtual presentations
Development of demonstrations and tools
Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability
Technical Support
Software tools (monitoring, diagnostic)
Loaner hardware (Vbrick, Cakebox, Access Grid)
Access to expertise (working groups)
The value of a network goes up as the square of the number of users.
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24. The Internet2 Commons
An effort to encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community
Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration
Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning
For Internet2 members and their international counterparts
More information available at
The Commons is a framework for collaboration throughout the research and education community that will encourage large scale deployment of tools for one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaborations. These interactive communications include meetings, conferences, and activities related to teaching and learning. The services provided by The Commons will be available to Internet2 members, Abilene participants, and their international counterparts. While The Commons will eventually comprise a large set of collaboration services, it will initially focus on services related to videoconferencing
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25. Other Collaborative Technologies
Data Sharing
Instant Messaging
Voice/IP
Other Collaborative Technologies
Electronic Notebooks
Peer to Peer
The Internet2 Commons
Collaboratories
Others
H.323
VRVS
Videoconferencing Technologies AG
MPEG2
Others
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26. Virtual Member Meeting
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