1. Eastern Michigan University Ellen Vaughan
Internet2
Eastern Michigan University
Ellen Vaughan
This is a general overview presentation about Internet2. Internet2 is a consortium, led by US universities, which is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today’s Internet in its infancy.
2 December 2003

2. Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
This is the Internet2 mission.
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3. Internet2 Goals Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
These are the three primary goals of Internet2.
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4. Internet2 Members 205 University Members, December 2003
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.
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5. Additional Internet2 Members
Over 60 Internet2 Corporate Members
Over 30 Affiliate Members
Over 30 International Partners
There are also over a total of 70 corporate members (including corporate partners) in Internet2, and over 30 affiliate members.
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6. Internet2 Corporate Partners
This is the latest list of Internet2 Corporate Partners. Corporate partners have committed to providing over US$1million in support of collaborations with Internet2 universities.
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7. Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Arbor Networks
BellSouth
BroadSoft
Ford Motor Company
Foundry Networks
inSORS Integrated Communications
Ixia
Polycom Worldwide
RADVision
VBrick Systems
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8. Internet2 Corporate Members
Advanced Infrastructure Ventures
Apparent Networks
Apple Computer, Inc.
Aventis
Avici Systems
Blackboard, Inc
C-SPAN
Ceyba Corporation
CIENA
Comcast Communications, Inc.
Community of Science, Inc.
EBSCO Information Services
Eli Lilly Corporation
Enterasys Networks, Inc.
Fujitsu Laboratories of America
General Motors
Hewlett-Packard Company
Interoute
Japan Telecom Co., LTD
Johnson & Johnson
Level 3 Communications
Motorola Labs
Network Associates, Inc.
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT)
PaeTec Communications, Inc.
Ping Identity Corporation
Pfizer
Procket Networks
Progress Software
ProQuest Information and Learning
Prous Science
Star Valley Solutions, Inc.
Syntel, Inc.
Telecom Italia Lab
TippingPoint Technologies
Verizon Communications
Video Furnace, Inc.
Warner Bros.
Wave Three Software
Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc.
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9. Internet2 Affiliate Members
Altarum
American Distance Education Consortium
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
CENIC
CERN
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Cleveland Institute of Music
Cleveland Museum of Art
Department of Commerce, Boulder
Desert Research Institute
EDUCAUSE
Food and Drug Administration
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratories
LaNet
Manhattan School of Music
MCNC
Merit Network, Inc.
MOREnet
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
National Archives and Records Administration
National Institutes of Health
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Silver Spring
National Science Foundation
New World Symphony
NYSERNet, Inc.
Oak Ridge National Labs
OARnet
OneNet
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PeachNet
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
Southwest Research Institute
State University of New York System
State University System of Florida
Survivors of the Shoah-Visual History Foundation
TOPIX
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
University of Missouri System
University of North Carolina, General Administration
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10. How are members engaged?
Member Meetings, Joint Technical Meetings, Workshops
Research collaborations and joint development
Internet2 Working Group participation
Test bed opportunities
Participation in Internet2 networks
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11. Why are they involved?
Mindshare and PR for being a part of a leading edge activity
Association with the Internet2 brand
Visibility for products and services
Market Development
Collaboration/Connection with research universities
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12. More Reasons….
Seek influence to technical directions; help define the future
Participation in developing standards, pre standards work
Product development, testing, scaling
Early Adopter for new technology
“Beyond Broadband” environment
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13. People on the Internet Millions of People
This chart shows the rapid rise in the number of people using the Internet. The projected figures are probably conservative.
Source: Nua Internet Surveys
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14. Yesterday’s Internet Thousands of users Remote login, file transfer
Interconnect mainframe computers
Applications capitalize on underlying technology
These are some important characteristics of the Internet during its pre-commercial development.
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15. Today’s Internet Millions of users
Web, , low-quality audio & video
Interconnect personal computers and servers
Applications adapt to underlying technology
Since commercialization in 1994, key characteristics of the Internet have changed: the size of the network and the capacity applications require support beyond the original design parameters of the underlying technologies.
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16. Tomorrow’s Internet Billions of users and devices
Convergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV)
Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computers
New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)
Tomorrow’s Internet promises even more demands: many more users and even more demanding applications. New capabilities must be developed to realize the potential of tomorrow’s Internet.
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17. Why Internet2? The Internet was not designed for:
Millions of users
Congestion
Multimedia
Real time interaction
But, only the Internet can:
Accommodate explosive growth
Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration
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18. 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
Today’s Internet has serious shortcomings. Some of them are performance or technically related, which limit the kinds of applications and capabilities the Internet can support. Other limitations affect the ability to innovate new capabilities that would address some of the performance and technical limitations.
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19. Providing Leadership The Internet came from the academic community
Stanford -- the Internet protocols
NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet
CERN -- the WWW protocols
University of Illinois -- the Web browser
Universities’ research and education mission require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop it
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20. Internet Development Spiral
Commercialization
Privatization
Today’s Internet
This spiral represents one way of looking at the development of the Internet. As the Internet moved from a research project to a commercial service, a set of partnerships fostered its development. During this process, the Internet grew in a number of ways: size, complexity, bandwidth, etc. Internet2 is forming the partnerships needed for technologies in a second cycle of innovation make their way into the commercial Internet.
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships
Source: Ivan Moura Campos
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21. Internet2 Today Motivate Enable Applications Middleware Services
End-to-end Performance
Motivate
Security
Middleware
Enable
Services
Networks
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22. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Initiatives
Partnerships
Advanced Applications
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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23. Internet2 Network Infrastructure
Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) to 10 Gbps (OC192) capacity today
GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points
Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop
This is a broad generalization of the Internet2 network infrastructure.
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24. Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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25. Internet2 Network Architecture
GigaPoP
One
GigaPoP
Two
Internet2 Backbone Networks
This diagram shows the network architecture being developed by Internet2 members.
GigaPoP
Three
GigaPoP
Four
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26. Internet2 Interconnect
Network Architecture
Internet2 Interconnect
Cloud
GigaPoP
One
Regional Network
University C
Commercial
Internet
Connections
University B
University A
This diagram illustrates a possible ways universities access the high-performance and commercial networks
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27. Abilene Network Core Map, December 2003
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28. Abilene Network Logical Map
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29. Internet2 GigaPoPs 31 as of December 2003
These are the location of the Internet2 gigaPoPs.
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30. Sponsored Education Group Participants
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31. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Initiatives
Partnerships
Advanced Applications
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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32. Middleware http://middleware.internet2.edu/
A layer of software between the network and the applications
Authentication
Identification
Authorization
Directories
Security
Middleware is a layer of software between the network and applications
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33. Internet2 Middleware Initiative
Internet2 community has unique needs and capabilities
Middleware Architecture Committee for Education
Early Harvest and Early Adopters
Internet2 PKI Labs
Shibboleth (authentication)
Computational middleware (Beta Grid)
Medical middleware
Directories
Security
The commercial development of middleware has lagged. These are some of the activities and work underway within the Internet2 community.
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34. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Initiatives
Partnerships
Advanced Applications
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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35. Engineering Working Groups
IPv6
Measurement
Multicast
Quality of Service
Routing
Security
Topology
These are some of the new network capabilities that advanced networks will need to implement and which the Internet2 community is working on.
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36. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Initiatives
Partnerships
Advanced Applications
These are the areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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37. Initiatives End to End Performance K 20 The Commons
Convergence / Voice over IP
In addition to the research areas just mentioned Internet2 is focused on holistic approaches
The Commons, which Ted will talk about is a framework for collaboration
The mission of the E2Epi is to create a predictable, and well-supported environment in which Internet2 campus network users have routinely successful experiences in their development and use of advanced Internet applications. We’re working on this by focusing resources and efforts on improving performance problem detection and resolution throughout campus, regional, and national networking infrastructure.
The Internet2 K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 member institutions, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to get new technologies—advanced networking tools, applications, middleware, and content—into the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors in the United States, as quickly and as “connectedly” as possible
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38. Internet2 Partnerships
Internet2 seeks to recreate the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy
Universities
Industry
Government
International
Partnerships are the foundation of how the Internet developed and they are also a part of the foundation of Internet2.
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39. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Initiatives
Partnerships
Advanced Applications
These are the areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on. Suggest putting this at the end.
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40. Advanced Applications http://apps.internet2.edu/
Distributed computation
Virtual laboratories
Digital libraries
Distributed learning
Digital video
Tele-immersion
All of the above in combination
Advanced applications com in many flavors, and those flavors can be combined. Advanced applications share the characteristic that they require advanced network capabilities to work—they either don’t work at all, or won’t work well on today’s Internet.
Enabling advanced applications is at the heart of Internet2.
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41. High Performance Video Delivery with Logistical Networking
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42. Virtual Laboratories Real-time access to remote instruments
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 3-D Brain Mapping
Here are some examples of various applications already in use:
This application links an MRI machine with a supercomputer to produce 3-D visualizations of the neurons in a patient’s brain firing in real-time. The resulting animation can be viewed by any doctor that has access to high-performance networking. These capabilities transform the process of visualizing a patient’s brain—a process that normally takes days—and allows doctor’s to work in ways not previously possible.
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43. Virtual Laboratories Real-time access to remote instruments
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Distributed nanoManipulator
This is an application which allows remote control of an electron microscope that can actually move molecules around. The application also provides “force feed-back” to the remote operator.
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44. Virtual Laboratories Mauna Kea Observatories AURA University of Hawaii
Here are pictures of various applications already in use:
1) the Upper Atmosphere research Collaboratory (UARC) developed at the University of Michigan--allows researchers access to data from instruments in Greenland w/o having to travel there, and allows them to discuss and interact in real time. This applications allows access to broader audience, including the second-order affect of enabling graduate students (who would never have been able to go to Greenland) to look in on research.
2&3) Pictures of a the output from a scanning electron microscope--allows access to expensive, specialized equipment by students--allows them to control in the microscope and see the output as if they were in the same room
--These both require advanced network capabilities to work--either don’t work, or won’t work well on today’s internet.
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45. Virtual Laboratories
Space Physics & Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC)
University of Michigan
NSF
Here are pictures of various applications already in use:
1) the Upper Atmosphere research Collaboratory (UARC) developed at the University of Michigan--allows researchers access to data from instruments in Greenland w/o having to travel there, and allows them to discuss and interact in real time. This applications allows access to broader audience, including the second-order affect of enabling graduate students (who would never have been able to go to Greenland) to look in on research.
2&3) Pictures of a the output from a scanning electron microscope--allows access to expensive, specialized equipment by students--allows them to control in the microscope and see the output as if they were in the same room
--These both require advanced network capabilities to work--either don’t work, or won’t work well on today’s internet.
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46. Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
Tele-immersion
Shared virtual reality
University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone
This is a program that allows a doctor to share a 3-D image of a complex piece of anatomy (the inner ear) with students in a way that makes teaching the anatomy much easier. By making this interactive capability available over the network, a doctor can teach students remotely.
Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
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47. Tele-cubicles and the CAVE
Tele-cubicles and CAVEs are different interfaces used for some advanced applications. Immersion in a virtual world, or interaction among people using these interfaces allows people to interact with applications in new ways. The requirements of network applications using these kinds of displays generally require advanced networking.
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Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

48. Technology Transfer Conduits
Collaborating on advanced applications
Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols
Establishing expertise and human capital
Large-scale proof of concept
A primary goal of Internet2 is to ensure the rapid adoption of new capabilities in the global Internet. Internet2 Corporate Partners play an important role in ensuring these technologies are broadly deployed. The Internet2 community provides a way for new capabilities to be tested. Many of the students at universities take the experience and expertise they gain through their university’s participation in Internet2 with them when they move into the commercial world.
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49. National Networks Internet2 Backbone Networks
Abilene
vBNS
NLR
Federal Backbone Networks
DREN
ESnet
NREN
SuperNet …
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50. International Partnerships
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
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51. International Partners
Build effective partnerships in other countries with organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
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52. International Partnerships
Current MoU Partners
Developing Partnerships
Related Efforts in Formation
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53. Internet2 International Partners
Last updated: 7 October 2003
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)
FCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
RIPN (Russia)
SANET (Slovakia)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TERENA (Europe)
JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)
Qatar Foundation Network (Qatar)
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)
NG-NZ (New Zealand)
SingAREN (Singapore)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
Americas
CANARIE (Canada)
CEDIA (Ecuador)
CLARA (Latin America and Caribbean)
CNTI (Venezuela)
CR2NET (Costa Rica)
CUDI (Mexico)
REUNA (Chile)
RETINA (Argentina)
RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil)
SENACYT (Panama)
Key:
Dark green: Current MoU partners
Medium green: Developing Partnerships
Gray: Related Efforts in Formation
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54. Networks reachable via Abilene - by country
Last updated: 30 June 2003
Networks reachable via Abilene - by country
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
Austria (ACOnet)
Belgium (BELNET)
Croatia (CARNet)
Czech Rep. (CESNET)
Cyprus (CYNET)
Denmark (Forskningsnettet)
Estonia (EENet)
Finland (Funet)
France (Renater)
Germany (G-WIN)
Greece (GRNET)
Hungary (HUNGARNET)
Iceland (RHnet)
Ireland (HEAnet)
Israel (IUCC)
Italy (GARR)
Latvia (LANET)
Lithuania (LITNET)
Luxembourg (RESTENA)
Malta (Univ. Malta)
Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT)
Poland (POL34)
Portugal (RCTS2)
Romania (RoEduNet) Russia (RBnet)
Slovakia (SANET)
Slovenia (ARNES)
Spain (RedIRIS)
Sweden (SUNET)
Switzerland (SWITCH)
United Kingdom
(JANET)
Turkey (ULAKBYM)
*CERN
Australia (AARNET)
China (CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET)
Hong Kong (HARNET)
Japan (SINET, WIDE, IMNET, JGN)
Korea (KOREN, KREONET2)
Singapore (SingAREN)
Philippines (PREGINET)
Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet)
Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
Argentina (RETINA)
Brazil (RNP2/ANSP)
Canada (CA*net)
Chile (REUNA)
Mexico (Red-CUDI)
United States
(Abilene, vBNS)
Venezuela
(REACCIUN-2)
More information at
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55. Abilene International Peering November 2003

56. Unanticipated Innovation
Lesson of the Web
Network growth and value are non-linear
New technologies enable qualitatively different uses
Users become innovators
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57. More Internet2 Information
On the Web
For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact directly by .
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