1. Beyond Tomorrow’s Internet University of Alaska Fairbanks March 23, 2006 Douglas Van Houweling President & CEO, Internet2

2. The Broadband Home of Tomorrow

4. SON and FRIENDS watching on-demand HDTV nature show 0 10 20 30 20 Mbps

5. DVR saving HDTV sports event for later viewing 0 10 20 30 20 Mbps

6. Family movies shared with UNCLE and AUNT across the country. 0 10 20 30 6 Mbps

7. MOTHER consulting with DOCTOR and GRANDMOTHER via 3-way DVD-quality videoconferencing, Including real-time blood pressure and heart rate data 0 10 20 30 6 Mbps

8. FATHER working with COLLEAGUES via DVD-quality videoconference and shared virtual whiteboard 0 10 20 30 6 Mbps

9. DAUGHTER working on multimedia school project with her friends via IM and VoIP phone while surfing the Web and downloading legal video and music. 0 10 20 30 6 Mbps

11. 70 Mbps 70

12. Internet2’s Role Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet –Research universities and scientific labs –State education networks –The commercial Internet

13. Internet2 - today US-based membership organization –207 US University members –66 Corporate members –47 Affiliate members Including several US government research labs –2 Association members –46 International partnerships –Budget more than $25 million per year

14. Internet2 Universities 207 University Members, December 2005

15. Coordinating Across Geographic Scales

16. Internet2 Network Infrastructure Overview Campus Regional Aggregation –Example: by US state, metropolitan region, multi-state region National –Backbone network infrastructure

17. Network Infrastructure Visualized Internet2 Backbone Networks (“Abilene”) Research and Education Regional Network University C Commercial Internet Connections University B

18. Current Internet2 infrastructure K20 School University Library Museum University Library University K20 School Museum Nationwide Network Links 100 Mbps - 10 Gbs

19. Abilene Backbone Network

20. Connecting to Abilene

21. State Higher Education Sponsored Networks Connected: –More than half of all colleges and universities in the US connected –More than 1/3 of all K-12 schools –1 in 5 libraries across the nation Now substantially expanded with the reach into Alaska!

22. A map of NRENs Related Efforts in Formation Current MoU Partners Developing Partnerships

23. Europe-Middle East Austria (ACOnet) Belgium (BELNET) Croatia (CARNet) Czech Rep. (CESNET) Cyprus (CYNET) Denmark (Forskningsnettet) Estonia (EENet) Finland (Funet) France (Renater) Germany (G-WIN) Greece (GRNET) Hungary (HUNGARNET) Iceland (RHnet) Ireland (HEAnet) Israel (IUCC) Italy (GARR) Jordan (JUNET) Latvia (LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Asia-Pacific Americas Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Canada (CA*net) Chile (REUNA) Costa Rica (CR2Net) Mexico (Red-CUDI) Panama (RedCyT) Peru (RAAP) Uruguay (RAU2) Venezuela (REACCIUN2) Malta (Univ. Malta) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT) Palestinian Territories (Gov’t Computing Center) Poland (POL34) Portugal (RCTS2) Qatar (Qatar FN) Romania (RoEduNet) Russia (RBnet) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain (RedIRIS) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland (SWITCH) Syria (HIAST) United Kingdom (JANET) Turkey (ULAKBYM) *CERN Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET) Fiji (USP-SUVA) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET, WIDE, JGN2) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) New Zealand (NGI-NZ) Philippines (PREGINET) Singapore (SingAREN) Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN) 77 Networks reachable via Abilene More information at http://abilene.internet2.edu/peernetworks/international.html Algeria (CERIST) Egypt (EUN/ENSTIN) Morocco (CNRST) Tunisia (RFR) South Africa (TENET) Central Asia Africa Armenia (ARENA) Georgia (GRENA) Kazakhstan (KAZRENA) Tajikistan (TARENA) Uzbekistan (UZSCI) Last updated: Feb. 2006

24. Today’s Internet2 Networking and Applications

25. Fine Arts Rehearsal and Performance

26. Health Science Research and Instruction

27. Images courtesy of NOAA Weather Prediction and Disaster Recovery

28. Collaboration and Communication

29. What We Have Learned Bandwidth Symmetry Neutrality Global Competitiveness

30. Bandwidth The applications we use today require up to 100 megabits/second Today’s local infrastructure is capable of speeds above 10 megabits/second Special challenges exist for rural communities

31. Symmetry Collaboration and content creation Enabling new content creation opportunities –FTP vs. BitTorrent –“Big Web” vs. Blogging –Streaming Audio vs. Podcasting –Apple iTMS video vs. Grouper.com Opens up distributed enterprise

32. Network Neutrality Today’s technology allows high bandwidth to the home and small business –Internet2 experience: Simple and inexpensive, not complex and expensive! Innovation Critical for higher education

33. Global Competitiveness Other nations are out-investing us and doing it with a national strategy If the US doesn’t invest, we will be followers, not leaders Our geographic diversity requires investment to harness the productivity of all our people

34. Foundation for New Services Community-owned optical networking infrastructure Diversity Cost-effectiveness National LambdaRail FiberCo

35. Owning the infrastructure Campus, regional and national networks moving away from buying telecommunications services to “owning” the assets –Campus – laying fiber on campus and between campuses in metro area –Regional networks – buying, laying and long-term leasing “dark” fiber to build networks –National – National Lambda Rail 20-year IRU on dark fiber; lit with NLR-owned equipment

37. Deploying and Testing

38. The Future for Alaska Extend fiber-based networking to Alaska higher education –Work with government & industry Deploy higher bandwidth connectivity intra-state –New technologies will be required –An opportunity for Alaskan leadership globally Ensure that the commercial network is capable of real broadband

39. Questions? Find us at www.internet2.edu