1. Internet2: building the Internet of the future today!
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.
University of Puerto Rico Internet2 Day
20 April 2001

2. Outline What are we doing today on Internet2-class networks?
What are the important areas of work that need to be done yet?
Who’s working with Internet2?
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3. Background Internet2 project formed in 1996 by 34 U.S. universities
Current members:
185 U.S. universities
70+ for-profit corporations
30+ not-for-profit organizations
In close partnership with:
U.S. government
30+ national networking organizations of other countries
University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) is the non-profit corporate home of the Internet2 project
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4. Internet2 Goals Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the global Internet
These are the three primary goals of Internet2.
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5. What are we doing today on Internet2-class networks?
Infrastructure Status
Advanced Services Deployment
Middleware Deployment
Applications in Use
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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6. Infrastructure Overview
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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7. Infrastructure Details
Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop
181 Primary participants on Abilene today
20 Sponsored participants on Abilene today and 5 state k-12 networks coming
~30 on vBNS
Approx. 25 GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points
Two Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today
This is a broad generalization of the Internet2 network infrastructure.
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9. 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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10. Abilene International Peering
26 October 2000
Abilene International Peering
STTL
CA*net3, (AARnet)
APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, IUCC, NORDUnet, RENATER, REUNA, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2 , (ANSP, KOREN/KREONET2, RNP2)
OC12
NYCM
TEN-155*,
JANET,
NORDUnet, SURFnet CA*net3
(HEAnet, BELNET)
SNVA
GEMNET,
(SINET)
LOSA
SingAREN, SINET
(HARNET?)
OC3-12
CALREN2
CUDI
AmPATH
(REUNA, RNP2, RETINA?)
UT El Paso
(CUDI)
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* ARNES, BELNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS

11. Advanced Services Deployment
Native multicast
IPv6
Quality of Service
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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12. Native Multicast
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13. Native Multicast
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15. IPv6
Ipv6 topology map of Abilene
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16. Quality of Service Based on IETF standards
DiffServ model
Abilene Premium Service in operation
QBone
Inter-domain QoS
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17. Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware)}
Applications
Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware)
eduPerson
Advanced Physical Network Infrastructure
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18. Internet2 Applications
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration …
Instruction
Collaboration
Streaming video
Distributed computation
Data mining
Virtual reality
Digital libraries …
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19. 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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20. Access Grid www.accessgrid.org (Argonne Nat’l Lab)
Pervasive room based environment for collaboration
SCGlobal Nov2001
Each AG node costs around $50,000 and consists of four PCs, echo cancellation device, camera, mics, speakers, and projectors
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21. Music Teaching
University of Oklahoma
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22. Classroom to Classroom Collaboration
National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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23. Remote Scanning Electron Microscope
Philips XL30
University of Michigan
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25. Distributed nanoManipulator
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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26. Remote Instruments
Keck Observatory – UC Santa Cruz
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27. Source: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Video Futures
Tele-immersive “Office of the Future”
Source: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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28. Earth Observation
Distributed system to search, access and visualize satellite remote sensing data for Global Change research
E.g. Global Observation of Forest Cover
Forest fire mapping and monitoring
Forest cover characteristics and changes
Forest biophysical functioning
CEOS (39 members, 20+ countries)
US – NASA, NOAA
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29. Distributed Computing and Data Resources
DNA data overwhelming computing power available locally
Utilize globally distributed collection of computational nodes
Indiana University, National University of Singapore and ACSys CRC in Australia
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30. Virtual Laboratories 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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31. What are the important areas in which work needs to be done yet?

32. End to End Performance When it’s built, can it deliver?
Ensure that the infrastructure is delivering to its full potential
Design Team whitepaper
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33. End-to-End (e2e) Performance Initiative
Human to Human Collaboration Experience
User perception EYEBALL
Application CORE APPLICATION
Operating system
Host IP stack STACK
Host network card
Local Area Network (LAN) JACK
Campus backbone network
Campus connection to regional network/GigaPoP
GigaPoP connection to Internet2 national backbone
International connections
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34. Further development of advanced services
QoS
Premium service – bandwidth broker
Scavenger service – less than best efforts
For large file transfers?
IPv6
Deployment in Asia outpacing US
How to incent campuses to deploy and developers to write applications for it?
Middleware Services
Shibboleth: built on eduPerson attributes
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35. Making applications components easier to use
Internet2 commons
To encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community
We use several, mostly incompatible, video conferencing technologies
H.323, Access Grid, VRVS (Virtual Room Videoconf. System), MPEG1 & 2, DV over Firewire, HDTV
Share information about recommended uses
Decision tree: room-based vs. desktop-based, video quality levels, multicast vs. unicast, …
Initial Commons H.323 service (based on ViDe architecture)
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36. Upgrading the Plumbing
National backbones
Optical networking - amplification and regeneration
GigaPoPs
Regional fiber initiatives
Campuses
Ubiquity (wireless) and high performance (wired)
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37. Campus and Gigapop
Aggressive period of fiber construction on the national & metro scales
Every conceivable right-of-way being explored and/or excavated
Many campuses and GigaPoPs have or are pursuing fiber
University of Washington metro fiber project
CENIC Optical Networking Initiative
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38. What about the backbone? Abilene – April, 2001
Inflection point in network development
OC-48c (2.5 Gbps) IP-over-SONET backbone
52 current and pending connections in 33 states
Two OC-48c connections: P/NW and SoX
16 connections at OC-12c or higher
185 participants in 48 states and D.C.
Ongoing strong partnership
Cisco, Nortel, Qwest, Indiana Univ., ITECs (NC and OH)
Increasing backbone utilization
Characteristic exponential growth
622mbps (OC-12c) peak utilization on some links
Traffic doubling time: 7 months
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39. Abilene weather map
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40. New roles for the backbone?
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41. Who’s working with Internet2?

42. 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)
SENACYT (Panama)
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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44. arena.internet2.edu ARENA Atlas of research and education network maps
Contact information
Topology, logical, multicast, etc. maps
NSF-funded
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45. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
Ameritech
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
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 in support of collaborations with Internet2 universities.
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46. Corporate Partner Activities
Qwest, Nortel, Cisco – Abilene
AT&T – PKI Labs
IBM – Shibboleth
New content providers – solicitation
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47. U.S. Government
NSF’s Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research division
Strategic Technologies for the Internet
Middleware Services
High Performance Network Connections
Targeted at smaller colleges
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48. Rest of education community
Sponsored Participation
Sponsored Educational Group Participation
First five state networks of K-12 connecting to Abilene
State and national organizations interested in advanced networking for K-12 gathering steam
Vast teaching and learning possibilities
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