1. Gary R. Bachula Vice President for External Relations, Internet2
Internet2 Overview
Gary R. Bachula
Vice President for External Relations, 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.

2. 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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3. 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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4. Internet2 Affiliate Members
Alabama Supercomputer Authority
Alliance for Higher Education
Army Systems Engineering Office
Assn. Of Univs. For Research in Astronomy
Bradley University
CERN
NOAA, NIST, NTIA – Boulder Labs
DePaul University
Desert Research Institute
EDUCAUSE
Ellemtel
ERIM
EROS Data Center (USGS)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Merit Network, Inc.
Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)
National Institutes of Health
NOAA
National Science Foundation
New World Symphony
NYSERNet, Inc.
Southeastern Universities Research Assn
Southwest Research Institute
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
UCAR & NCAR
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5. 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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6. Internet2 Goals
Re-create leading edge Research & Education network capability
Enable new generation of applications
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
These are the three primary goals of Internet2.
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7. 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

8. Abilene Network Core Map, October 2001
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9. Abilene International Peering
22 August 2001
Abilene International Peering
SEA/SNNAP
AARNET, CA*net3
(TANET2,
TransPAC)
CHICAGO/STAR TAP
APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, MIRnet, NORDUnet, RENATER, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2 (ANSP, RNP2)
OC12
NYCM
BELNET, CA*net3, HEANET, JANET,
NORDUnet, SURFnet,
TEN-155*
SNVA
GEMNET, SingAREN, WIDE (SINET)
LOSA
SINET,
UNINET
CALREN2
CUDI
OC3
AmPATH
REUNA, RNP2 (RETINA)
UT El Paso
CUDI
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* ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS

10. Internet2 GigaPoPs 28 as of October 2001
These are the location of the Internet2 gigaPoPs.
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12. Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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13. Middleware
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 applicaitons
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14. Engineering Quality of Service: QBone Scalable IP Multicast IPv6
Scalable IP Multicast
IPv6
Network Security
Network Management
Measurement
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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15. Advanced Applications
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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Real-Time Tele-Operation of Remote Equipment
North Carolina State University
Computerized excavation backhoe
Remotely operated, used in hazardous situations.
Quality of Service is Guaranteed
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. Teaching Music with Advanced Network Videoconferencing
University of Oklahoma
Real-time interaction with the world’s foremost master teachers of music
Accurate representation of sound
Supplement to traditional music teaching
By using videoconferencing over high-performance networks, students in Oklahoma can interact, in real-time, with some of the world’s foremost master teachers of instrumental music. Music faculty have the opportunity to extend their teaching worldwide and to collaborate remotely with colleagues anywhere. Internet2 provides sufficient bandwidth and minimal network delay to allow the type of full-motion (30-frames per second) video and accurate representation of sound that make it feasible for classical musicians to collaborate from remote locations. This technology will never replace live, in-person music teaching; but serves as a supplement to the traditional music-teaching environment.
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21. Recording Studio that Spans a Continent
McGill University
Twelve uncompressed high-quality audio channels streamed over Abilene and CA*net3
Engineers mixed the recording in LA
The Recording Studio that Spans a Continent demonstrated, for the first time, how 12 uncompressed high-quality audio channels could be streamed over Internet2’s Abilene network and CA*net3 in Canada to create a live recording and 5.1 surround sound mix for the local audience in Los Angeles. On 23 September 2000, the McGill Jazz Orchestra played in Redpath Hall at McGill University in Montreal, while engineers were mixing the recording in the Norris Theatre at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. MPEG-2 broadcast quality video of the orchestra was transmitted over the same Internet link as the audio, allowing audience members in Los Angeles to watch the performance on a large screen.
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22. Virtual Aneurysm
University of California at
Los Angeles
A simulation and virtual reality visualization of brain blood flow
Researchers examine critical flow pattern and evaluate simulated surgical interventions
The Virtual Aneurysm is a simulation and virtual reality visualization of brain blood flow. Using a software system that will be able to accurately model an aneurysm imaged using x-ray computed tomographic angiography (CTA), a doctor can visualize the aneurysm in a virtual reality environment, predict its future behavior, and gain insight into the type of treatment needed. Cutting planes and stream lines tools can to be used to examine the pressure, fluid velocity, and shear forces of the aneurysm. Researchers are working to improve the accuracy of blood flow simulations, and on the development of intelligent tools to enable doctors to more easily visualize critical flow patterns and to evaluate simulated surgical interventions. Internet2 high-performance networking provides the advanced capabilities (high-bandwidth and low delay) necessary to enable the remote visualization and navigation of multi-terabyte virtual aneurysm simulations stored on a high-performance server at UCLA.
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23. Realistic, Life-Sized, 3D Tele-Immersion
Advanced Network & Services, Brown University, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania
Brings together geographically distant participants and shared virtual objects
Tele-immersive recreation of office environment
The Tele-Immersion Project is working to bring together geographically distant participants in a realistic, tele-immersive recreation of their real environments. Project collaborators envision an Office of the Future where computer vision, networking, and computer graphics techniques are used to capture a dynamic 3D model of one office—including walls, furniture, objects, and people—and then re-create a virtual representation in a similarly-equipped remote office. The Internet2 networks offer a high-performance testbed for this research, which demands high bandwidth and low latency to support real-time interaction between remote users and shared virtual objects.
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24. End-to-End Performance Initiative
The Problem
High-bandwidth network links don’t guarantee high-performance networking
The Vision
Users routinely obtain optimal performance from the available network infrastructure
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25. End to End Performance Focus Areas
Applications
Host Computer and Operating Systems
The Network
Operational Support
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26. End-to-End (e2e) Performance Initiative
Human to Human Collaboration Experience
User perception EYEBALL
Application CORE APP
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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27. Sponsored Education Group Participants – Approved, Oct 2001
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28. Sponsored Education Group Participants – Applied, Oct 2001
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29. Sponsored Education Group Participants – Inquiries, Oct 2001
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30. Sponsored Education Group Participants – Other Possible
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31. Internet2 Member Meeting Attendance
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32. Virtual Internet2 Member Meeting, October 2-5, 2001
received 7,494 Unique Visitors to the VIMM website (DHCP not included)
delivered 386 max simultaneous streams across 5 unique video streaming technologies (11 streams were used)
had over 40 Participation Sites across the United States
…all built in 10 days!
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33. Network of the Future: New Abilene Agreement, Oct. 2001
Abilene partnership with Qwest extended through 2006
Backbone to be upgraded to 10-Gbps in three phases by late 2003
Capability for flexible wavelength () provisioning in support of future experimentation in optical networking
Overall approach to the new technical design and business plan is for an incremental, non-disruptive transition
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