2. HEANET Conference Heather Boyles heather@internet2.edu
Internet2: an overview
HEANET Conference
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.
16 November 2001

3. Outline Background Areas of Work Relationships History Organization
How we work
Relationships
E.g. with HEAnet
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4. 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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5. 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

6. 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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7. Internet2 Universities 188 Universities as of November 2001
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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8. 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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9. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
AT&T
Cisco Systems
IBM
Intel Corporation
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
SBC Communications
Spirent Communications
WorldCom
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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10. 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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11. 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.
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12. 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.
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13. Different Disciplines/Contexts
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration …
Library
Classroom
Clinic
Office
Laboratory
Dorm room …
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14. Application Attributes
Interactive collaboration
Real-time access to remote resources
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15. Remote Scanning Electron Microscope
The University of Michigan
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16. Philips XL30
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18. Real-Time Tele-Operation of Remote Equipment North Carolina State University
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19. Tele-vator Excavation backhoe operated remotely over Internet2
Used in hazardous rescue situations
Sophisticated two-way feedback using stereovision
Tele-vator is a computerized excavation backhoe that can be remotely operated over Internet2 high-performance networks. Because of its size and potential criticality of operation (e.g., in hazardous rescue situations), Tele-vator requires a high-level of sophisticated two-way feedback, including adequate depth of vision provided via high-definition stereovision. Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)—such as network bandwidth, latency (delay) control, and jitter (variability in delay) control—are essential to ensure the quality of the 3D image, audio, and equipment control channels required by Tele-vator’s remote operators.
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20. Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory
University of Michigan
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23. Attributes, cont. Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of the above
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24. Grid Projects
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25. What is the Grid?
Global resources available to communities of researchers
The protocols, services, and applications that enable new forms of collaboration
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26. Grid Resources Instruments Libraries Workstations People Data sets
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27. Examples Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
Collaboration environment for earthquake researchers (e.g., structural engineers, geotechnical and tsunami scientists)
Grid Physics Network
Petabyte scale environment for data-intensive applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory)
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28. Grid Projects NEESGrid GriPhyN S/W infrastructure Research: Sensornets
GriPhyN
S/W infrastructure
Research: Sensornets
Networked nanotechnology
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29. High Fidelity Digital Video/Audio
Teaching Music
University of Oklahoma
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30. Source: University of North Carolina
Video Futures
Tele-immersive “Office of the Future”
Source: University of North Carolina
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31. 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
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32. 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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33. 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.
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34. Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware)}
Applications
Authentication, Identification, Authorization, Directories, Security
Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware)
Advanced Physical Network Infrastructure
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35. Middleware
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36. Internet2 Middleware Initiative
Focus on core middleware as infrastructure
Interoperability
190 universities will never buy the same software
Getting stuff implemented
Best practices
Integrate across applications
Discourage ‘islands’ of middleware infrastructure
E.g. core mware just for this grid project
Enable community to share resources
Grid, remote instruments, shared classes
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37. I2MI core middleware activities
Identifiers
Early Adopters - survey/docs about how campuses are assigning and relating identifiers
Authentication
WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on): share expertise, code
Directories
DoDHE: Dir. of Directories for HE: inter-institutional directory searching, using eduPerson and LDAP Recipe
eduPerson: an LDAP object class that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education
LDAP Recipe: promote common design
Authorization
Certificates and PKI
Internet2 PKI Labs
An identifier is a function that maps real-world subjects into name or character strings, so that distinct subjects have distinct strings
Authentication is the process of establishing whether or not a real-world subject is who or what its identifier says it is.
Directories contain critical customization information for people, processes, resources and groups By placing such information in a common storage area, diverse applications from diverse locations can access a consistent and comprehensive source for current values of key data
authorization indicates what an identifier, properly authenticated, is permitted to do with a networked object or resource.
The software, protocols and legal agreements that are necessary to effectively use certificates combine to form a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
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38. 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.
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39. 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.
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40. How Internet2 works Universities commit: Working groups:
Engineering lead: connect university to rest of Internet2 community, deploy new technologies
Applications lead: support apps development on campus
Middleware architect: work with I2MI to implement middleware infrastructure
Working groups:
Of expert/interested individuals within community
Chaired by volunteer (sometimes by staff)
Staff support
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41. How Internet2 works, cont’d
Projects, e.g. Abilene
Executive team and Project team
Qwest, Cicso, Nortel
Indiana University supplies NOC
Projects, e.g. Shibboleth
IBM providing coding
Designed by MACE (volunteers from community)
Supported by Staff
Internet2 Staff
Primarily facilitate, coordinate, flywheel
~50
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42. 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.
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43. Industry and Government Partnerships
Goal #3: Transfer technology to commercial internet
Internet2 community provides testbed, early adopters
Government
Explore implementation of lab research
Support universities’ ability to engage in gov’t-funded research projects (with other universities, gov’t labs)
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44. 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
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45. International Partners
Build effective partnerships in other countries
With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
Internet2 and HEAnet: August, 1999
TERENA is asterisked because they do not have a network, but focus of that MoU is collaboration in technical wg space and applications development.
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46. MoU in brief Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities
Collaborate on technology development and deployment
Facilitate collaboration between members on applications
Encourage technology transfer
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48. International MoU Partners
AAIREP (Australia)
APAN (Asia-Pacific)
APAN-KR (Korea)
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CANARIE (Canada)
CARNET (Croatia)
CESnet (Czech Republic)
CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)
CUDI (Mexico)
DANTE (Europe)
DFN-Verein (Germany)
GIP RENATER (France)
GRNET (Greece)
HEAnet (Ireland)
HUNGARNET (Hungary)
INFN-GARR (Italy)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
JAIRC (Japan)
JUCC (Hong Kong)
NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
POL-34 (Poland)
RCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
RETINA (Argentina)
REUNA (Chile)
RNP2 (Brazil)
SingAREN (Singapore)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
TERENA (Europe)
JISC/UKERNA (UK)
- obviously varying ways in which higher education and its networking services are organized around the world, but most of these are the organizations and/or networks that serve all of higher ed. In their respective countries
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49. More Internet2 Information
On the Web
For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact directly by .
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