1. Advanced networking for research and education: the role of higher education
Putting together a national initiative
Heather Boyles
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.
4 May 2001

2. Outline Why do we need advanced networking capabilities?
Why higher education?
What is Internet2 doing?
How can the Colombian research and education community participate?
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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
Internet2 is focused on accelerating the change in technologies and applications on the internet to support new demands. Internet2 is not a different technology than the original Internet, but is working to incorporate new technologies into the existing internet protocol.
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9. University of Michigan
Remote Instruments
University of Michigan
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10. Remote Instruments Mauna Kea Observatories AURA University of Hawaii
This is a picture of several telescopes on Mauna Kea. Astronomers are working on being able to remotely view the telescope images over the network. Transferring high-resolution images in real-time (so that the astronomer can have the telescope moved if he doesn’t seem something) requires high bandwidth and low latency in the network.
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11. Distributed Computation
Large Hadron Collidor
CERN
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.
CERN Photos
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12. 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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13. 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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14. University of North Carolina
Office of the Future
University of North Carolina
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15. 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
Universities have an important role to play in showing the way to a new internet. Researchers, faculty and students demand a better internet in order to do their research, teaching and learning. Universities have a long history of being early adopters of technology. Universities have the ability to bring together the academic, industry and government communities to work together.
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16. 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
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Source: Ivan Moura Campos

17. 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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18. Internet2 Members 185 universities (yellow dots) 75 corporations
40 non-profits and gov’t labs
32 international partners
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19. 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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20. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
Ameritech
AT&T
Cisco Systems
IBM
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
Marconi
WorldCom
Microsoft
Newbridge Networks
Netcom Systems
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
SBC Communications
WCI Cable
This is the latest list of Internet2 Corporate Partners. Corporate partners have committed to providing over US$1million each in support of collaborations with Internet2 universities. These are typically goods, services or money that goes to the universities themselves.
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21. Internet2 Network Architecture
GigaPoP
One
GigaPoP
Two
Internet2 Backbone Networks
This diagram shows the network architecture being developed by Internet2 members. This is a very abstract diagram of actual network connections within the U.S.
GigaPoP
Three
GigaPoP
Four
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22. 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. The key thing to note here is that all universities maintain a connection to the commercial internet. The two Internet2 backbone networks (called vBNS and Abilene) do not offer access to the commercial internet. They only offer access to institutions connected to their networks and other research and education networks that the vBNS and Abilene decide to peer with.
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23. Internet2 Backbone Networks
This is an illustration of the (currently) two Internet2 backbone networks, the vBNS developed by MCI Worldcom and the National Science Foundation and Abilene, developed by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Qwest, Cisco and Indiana University.
Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NCSA
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24. How can the Colombian research and education community collaborate with Internet2?
4 May 2001

25. Collaborative Partnership
Organization:
Not for profit (not commercial)
Higher education leadership
Abilities:
Support applications developers and users
Provide national-scope advanced networking capabilities for universities, research institutes
Goals:
Spread availability of new networking technology
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26. Internet2 International Partners October 2000
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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27. More Internet2 Information
On the Web
Heather Boyles, Director of International Relations
For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact directly by .
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