1. Pfizer Internet2 Day Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID
Internet2: an overview
Pfizer Internet2 Day
Douglas E. Van Houweling
President and CEO, UCAID
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.
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2. What Is Internet2?
A project of the university community working with our corporate colleagues and government to close the gap between the potential and reality of the Internet
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3. Internet2 Universities 190 Universities as of January 2002
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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Additional Participation
Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members
Over 40 Affiliate Members
Over 30 International Partners
There are also over a total of 70 corporate members (including corporate partners) in Internet2, and over 30 affiliate members.
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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

13. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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14. Internet2 Network Infrastructure
Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today, Abilene now being upgraded to 10 Gbps (OC192)
GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points
Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop
This is a broad generalization of the Internet2 network infrastructure.
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15. Abilene Network Logical Map
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16. Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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17. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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18. 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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19. Internet2 Middleware Initiative
Internet2 community has unique needs and capabilities
Middleware Architecture Committee for Education
Early Harvest and Early Adopters
Internet2 PKI Labs
Shibboleth (authentication)
Computational middleware (Beta Grid)
Medical middleware
Directories
The commercial development of middleware has lagged. These are some of the activities and work underway within the Internet2 community.
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20. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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21. Engineering Working Groups
IPv6
Measurement
Multicast
Quality of Service
Routing
Security
Topology
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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22. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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23. Internet2 Focus Areas Advanced Network Infrastructure Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
These are the five areas that Internet2, Internet2 members, and partner organizations are focused on.
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24. 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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25. National Networks Internet2 Backbone Networks
vBNS
Abilene
Federal Backbone Networks
DREN
ESnet
NREN
SuperNet …
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26. Technology Transfer Conduits
Collaborating on advanced applications
Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols
Establishing expertise and human capital
Large-scale proof of concept
A primary goal of Internet2 is to ensure the rapid adoption of new capabilities in the global Internet. Internet2 Corporate Partners play an important role in ensuring these technologies are broadly deployed. The Internet2 community provides a way for new capabilities to be tested. Many of the students at universities take the experience and expertise they gain through their university’s participation in Internet2 with them when they move into the commercial world.
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27. International Partnerships
Ensure global interoperability of advanced networking technologies and applications
Enable collaborations between US researchers at Internet2 institutions and their non-US counterparts
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28. International MoU Map
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29. Unanticipated Innovation
Lesson of the Web
Network growth and value are non-linear
New technologies enable qualitatively different uses
Users become innovators
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30. More Internet2 Information
On the Web
For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact directly by .
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