1. Heather Boyles heather@internet2.edu
Internet2: an overview
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.
09 October 2001

2. Internet2 Universities 187 Universities as of July 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 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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4. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
AT&T
Cisco Systems
IBM
Intel Corporation
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
Marconi Communications
Microsoft
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
SBC Communications
Spirent Communications
WCI Cable
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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
Tele-immersion
Shared virtual reality
University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone
This is a program that allows a doctor to share a 3-D image of a complex piece of anatomy (the inner ear) with students in a way that makes teaching the anatomy much easier. By making this interactive capability available over the network, a doctor can teach students remotely.
Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
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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. Music Teaching
University of Oklahoma
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14. Collaboration Source: University of Illinois-Chicago
Tele-cubicles and CAVEs are different interfaces used for some advanced applications. Immersion in a virtual world, or interaction among people using these interfaces allows people to interact with applications in new ways. The requirements of network applications using these kinds of displays generally require advanced networking.
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Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

15. 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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16. Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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17. 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

18. My role in Internet2 Direct international relations
Develop and manage relationships with 38 countries
Scout for technology developments; evangelize Internet2 work
Handle international connections for Abilene network
Work with engineering
Thinking about the global achitecture
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19. Middleware
A layer of software between the network and the applications
Authentication
Identification
Authorization
Directories
Security
Key: inter-institutional
Middleware is a layer of software between the network and applicaitons
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20. Engineering Quality of Service Scalable IP Multicast IPv6
Original internet: best effort
QoS: designating certain packets for different treatment
Scalable IP Multicast
IPv6
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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21. Internet Development Spiral
Commercialization
Privatization
Today’s Internet
As this diagram shows, we expect Internet2 to continue to support the partnerships that help new technologies and capabilities move from the research and development phase into commercial deployment. As further cycles of innovation and technology develop, Internet2 will continue to play this role.
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships
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Source: Ivan Moura Campos

22. More Internet2 Information
On the Web
For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact directly by .
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23. What I’ve learned as a woman in technology
No lines for the bathroom at meetings!
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24. Don't worry about the road blocks -- get in the car and drive.
"What hurts women most is going into the world with a chip on their shoulder. You can do a lot more by just going out and assuming you can do it, instead of worrying about what will stop you."
- Judy Estrin, founder PacketDesign
and former CTO, Cisco
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