1. The Future of the Internet and Internet2 IEC Executive Forum @SUPERCOMM 2001 Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID IEC Executive Forum @SUPERCOMM 2001 Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID June 5, 2001

2. 6 de Abril de 2001 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

3. 6 de Abril de 2001 3 Tomorrow’s Internet Billions of users and devices Convergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV) Support mission-critical applications Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computers New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

4. 6 de Abril de 2001 4 Why Internet2? The Internet was not designed for: More than 100 million users Congestion Multimedia Real time interaction But, only the Internet can: Accommodate explosive growth Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future

5. 6 de Abril de 2001 5 Why University Leadership? The Internet originated in the higher education & research community Stanford -- the Internet protocols NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet CERN -- The WWW protocols University of Illinois -- The Web browser Universities require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop new Internet capabilities

6. 6 de Abril de 2001 6 Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

7. 6 de Abril de 2001 7 Status Current members: 187 U.S. universities 70+ for-profit corporations 40+ not-for-profit organizations In partnership with: U.S. government 30+ national networking organizations of other countries

8. 6 de Abril de 2001 8 Internet2 Universities 187 Universities as of June 2001

9. 6 de Abril de 2001 9 Internet2 Corporate Partners 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel AT&T Cisco Systems IBM ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies Marconi Communications Microsoft Nortel Networks Qwest Communications SBC Communications Spirent Communications WCI Cable WorldCom

10. 6 de Abril de 2001 10 Internet2 Accomplishments A high-performance network for members Backbones – vBNS (NSF, Worldcom), Abilene (Qwest, Nortel, Cisco, Indiana University) Regional connectivity via gigaPoPs Campus & enterprise connectivity by members 2.4 gigabit capacity, tuned for >100 megabit streams Over 190 participating sites nationwide Linked to similar networks worldwide

11. 6 de Abril de 2001 11 Internet2 Accomplishments Member development and deployment of applications requiring high performance networking Multimedia Remote operation Collaboration Large scale computation & data mining Virtual reality Peer to peer computing

12. 6 de Abril de 2001 12 What We Have Learned High performance infrastructure is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient of high performance network capability. Middleware is required to scale up advanced network capabilities and applications. The Internet marketplace is slow to deploy advanced capabilities. The biggest challenges are organizational, not technological

13. 6 de Abril de 2001 13 What We Are Doing End-to-End Performance Initiative Measurement, diagnostic tools, best practices, multicast, Quality of Service Internet2 Middleware Project Authentication, shared directories, PKI, security Expanded Access Sponsored by members K-20 education, libraries, museums, startup companies

14. 6 de Abril de 2001 14 Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2 NSFNetARPANet NYSERNet SURANet MichNet ANS/Core PSI UUNet InternetMCI AOL GigaBit Testbeds MBone NGI Intelligent Networks

15. 6 de Abril de 2001 15 More Internet2 Information On the Web www.internet2.edu www.internet2.edu/html/lists.html Email info@internet2.edu

16. www.internet2.edu