1. Internet2: update Doug Van Houweling dvh@internet2.edu
ESnet International Meeting
17 February 1999

2. Internet2 Project Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer capability to the global production Internet

3. Progress 2.5 years ago: Internet2 Project formed October 1996
1.5 year ago: UCAID Incorporated October 1997
10 months ago: Abilene Launched April 1998

4. Today 141 universities 47 corporations 7 gigapops connected to vBNS
Abilene in service w/ 20 institutions connected
Abilene peering with vBNS, ESnet
QoS -- QBone initiative launched
Middleware initiative launched

5. UCAID Member Universities 141 Members as of January 1999
University of Puerto Rico not shown

6. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
Cisco Systems
FORE
IBM
ITC^DeltaCom
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
StarBurst Communications

7. Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South
Packet Engines
SBC Technology Resources
StorageTek
Torrent Technologies

8. Internet2 Corporate Members
Alcatel Telecom
Ameritech
Apple Computer
AppliedTheory
Bell Atlantic
Bellcore
British Telecom
Compaq/DEC
Deutsche Telekom
Fujitsu
GTE Internetworking
Hitachi
IXC Communications
KDD
Nexabit Networks
Nokia Research Center
Novell
NTT Multimedia
Pacific Bell
RR Donnelley
Siemens
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Sylvan Learning
Telebeam
Teleglobe
Williams Communications

9. Abilene Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting
January 1999: Abilene in full service
peering with: vBNS, ESnet
By December 1999: around 65 institutions connected

10. Abilene Network February 1999
Seattle
Cleveland
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Abilene Router Node
Abilene Access Node
Operational January 1999
Planned 1999
Houston

11. Middleware Initiative
Objective: a “Services Rich” Network Environment
Functional services available to users and developers
Enabling new collaborations and applications
Supported as production quality
An integrated framework
Scaled to the size of the research and education community

12. Interoperable Protocols
Applications:
Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions
Standard APIs
Middleware:
Security, Directory, Quality of Service,
Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting,
Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast
Standard APIs
Operating system and network services
Interoperable Protocols

13. Technology Scope QoS Digital video/audio Security Collaboration
Directories
Multicast
File systems
Measurement
Remote instruments
IMS
Transaction systems
Meta-computing
Management
IP telephony
Accounting/billing
E-commerce
Object brokers
Search mechanisms
Printing

14. Avoiding Balkanization
Physics
Applications
Digital Library
Applications
Instructional
Applications
Data Mining
Applications
Physics
QoS
Digital Library
QoS
Instructional
QoS
Data Mining
QoS
Physics
Security
Digital Library
Security
Instructional
Security
Data Mining
Security
Physics
Directories
Digital Library
Directories
Instructional
Directories
Data Mining
Directories
Physics
Storage
Digital Library
Storage
Instructional
Storage
Data Mining
Storage
TCP/IP Network

15. Initiative Overview Deliverables
Identification of a small number of key community projects
Information dissemination
Demos
Workshops

16. Principles Focus on problems where We have a unique incentive to solve
The benefit to our community is clear and compelling
Results are attainable in a reasonable timeframe

17. QBone Initiative An interdomain testbed for differentiated services
Goals:
Grow a snowball of interoperable DiffServ clouds
Grow a community of participants
Foster pre-standards interoperability
Collaborate to solve problems and share experiences
Initial participants have been identified and met in several cases

18. QBone Structure QBone Interoperability Group (QIG)
Actively building pre-production interdomain DiffServ infrastructure
Works on nuts-and-bolts interoperability issues
Specific phased demonstrations of interdomain QoS
Participation staged to keep group focused
QBone Solutions Group (QSG)
Broader discussion of engineering and deployment issues
Includes teams that plan to join the QIG
Focus on intradomain engineering issues
Participation open to the Internet2 community
I2 QoS Working Group
Architectural guardians
Nurture QIG and QSG

19. Initial Participants Abilene CAnet*2
iCAIR (International Center for Advanced Internet Research)
APAN, CTIT, EVL, Indiana University, MREN, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, SingAREN, STAR TAP, SURFnet, TransPAC
IPPM Surveyor Project
International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR )
Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
University of Twente (Netherlands)

20. Initial Participants - cont’d
Merit / University of Michigan
NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative
NREN
NYSERNet
PSC / NLANR / CMU
Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP
UMN
UPenn/ UMass
vBNS

21. Internet2 QoS Resources
QoS Working Group
Home Page:
Interest Mailing List:
QBone
Home page:

22. Internet2 International Collaborations
Building peer to peer relationships
Looking for similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
Signed: CANARIE, Stichting SURF, NORDUnet, TERENA*, SingAREN, JAIRC, UKERNA-INFN/GARR-DFN-Verein-RENATER
TERENA is asterisked because they do not have a network, but focus of that MoU is collaboration in technical wg space and applications development.

23. International collaborations cont’d
Network interconnection
Interconnection at STAR TAP (CAnetII, SURFnet, NORDUnet, SingAREN underway)
Second interconnection directly with Abilene (NY - NORDUnet, SURFnet)
Specific project collaboration
QBone (e.g. SURFnet an initial participant)
middleware
research/learning applications

24. Next Steps
Continue to interconnect member desktops and servers at high speed
Continue to support advanced applications development
focus on multi-campus implementations
Adopt, develop and implement
QoS end-to-end
middleware end-to-end
new business models