1. Internet2
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.
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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 Universities 202 University Members, March 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. Internet2 Partnerships
Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy
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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6. Additional Participation
Over 50 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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7. 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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8. Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Arbor Networks
BellSouth
Ford Motor Company
Foundry Networks
inSORS Integrated Communications
Ixia
Opnix, Inc.
Polycom Worldwide
RADVision
VBrick Systems
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9. Internet2 Corporate Members
Community of Science, Inc.
EBSCO Information Services
Eli Lilly Corporation
Enterasys Networks, Inc.
Fujitsu Laboratories of America
General Motors
Hewlett-Packard
JalaaM Tehcnologies
Advanced Infrastructure Ventures
American Fiber Systems
Apple Computer, Inc.
Aventis
Blackboard, Inc
C-SPAN
Ceyba, Inc.
CIENA Corporation
Japan Telecom Co., LTD
Johnson & Johnson
Level 3 Communications
Motorola Labs
Network Associates, Inc.
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT)
Pfizer
Procket Networks
Progress Software
ProQuest Information and Learning
Prous Science
Siemens
Star Valley Solutions, Inc.
Syntel, Inc.
Telecom Italia Lab
Verizon Communications
WebCT
Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc.
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10. 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 MusicCleveland 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 Institutes of Health
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Silver Spring
National Science Foundation
New World Symphony
NYSERNet, Inc.
Oak Ridge National Labs
OARnet
OneNet
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
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
University of Missouri System
University of North Carolina, General Administration
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11. Sponsored Education Group Participants
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Why University 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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19. 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.
Source: Ivan Moura Campos
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships
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