1. Internet2 Greg Wood Director of Communications Internet2 Booz·Allen & Hamilton 23 February 2000

2. Internet2 FAQ  What (and why) is Internet2?  Will Internet2 replace today’s Internet?  Will there by an Internet3?  How (or when) can I connect to Internet2 from home?  What’s your stock ticker symbol?

3. People on the Internet Source: Nua Internet Surveys Millions of People

4. Computers on the Internet Source: Internet Domain Survey Millions of Computers

5. Yesterday’s Internet  Thousands of users  Remote login, file transfer  Applications capitalize on underlying technology

6. Today’s Internet  Millions of users  Web, email, low-quality audio & video  Applications adapt to underlying technology

7. Tomorrow’s Internet  Billions of users and devices  Convergence of today’s applications and services  New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

8. More Time Performance Less hype technological potential actual performance The Network Performance Gap performance gap

9. 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

10. Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

11. Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

12. Internet2 Universities 173 Universities as of February 2000

13. Internet2 Corporate Partners  ITC^Deltacom  Lucent Technologies  MCI Worldcom  Microsoft  Newbridge Networks  Nortel Networks  Qwest Communications  WCI Cable  3Com  Advanced Network & Services  Alcatel  Ameritech  AT&T  Cabletron Systems  Cisco Systems  FORE Systems  IBM

14. Additional Participation  Over 60 Internet2 Corporate Members  Over 30 Affiliate Members  Over 20 International Partners

15. Internet2 Goals  Enable new generation of applications  Re-create leading edge R&E network capability  Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

16. Applications Engineering MotivateEnables Applications and Engineering

17. Advanced Applications  Distributed computation  Virtual laboratories  Digital libraries  Distributed learning  Digital Video  Tele-immersion  All of the above in combination

18. Virtual Laboratories  Real-time access to remote instruments  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 3-D Brain Mapping

19. Virtual Laboratories  Real-time access to remote instruments  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Distributed nanoManipulator

20. Tele-immersion  Shared virtual reality  University of Illinois at Chicago Virtual Temporal Bone Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois- Chicago

21. Tele-cubicles and the CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

22. Digital Libraries  Video and audio  Indiana University Variations Project

23. Distributed Computation  Large-scale computation  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Image courtesy of UCAR

24. Technology Initiatives  Quality of Service: QBone http://www.internet2.edu/qbone/  Scalable IP Multicast http://www.internet2.edu/multicast/  IPv6  Distributed Storage: I2-DSI http://dsi.internet2.edu/  Digital Video: I2-DV http://dv.internet2.edu/  I2MI: GlueWorks www.internet2.edu/middleware/

25. (Typical) Internet2 Networks  Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today  GigaPoPs provide regional high- performance aggregation points  Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop

26. Internet2 Backbone Networks GigaPoP One Internet2 Network Architecture GigaPoP Two GigaPoP Four GigaPoP Three

27. Internet2 Interconnect Cloud Network Architecture University A Commercial Internet Connections GigaPoP One Regional Network University BUniversity C

28. Internet2 Backbones Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NCSA

29. Internet2 GigaPoPs

30. University-led Federal agency-led Developing education and research driven applications Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Building out campus networks, gigapops and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative Internet2NGI

31. Internet2 International Partners  AAIREP (Australia)  APAN (Asia-Pacific  ARNES (Slovenia)  BELNET (Belgium)  CANARIE (Canada)  CESnet (Czech Republic)  CUDI (Mexico)  DANTE (Europe)  DFN-Verein (Germany)  Fundacion Internet 2 (Argentina)  GIP RENETAR (France)  GRNET (Greece)  HEAnet (Ireland)  AAIREP (Australia)  APAN (Asia-Pacific  ARNES (Slovenia)  BELNET (Belgium)  CANARIE (Canada)  CESnet (Czech Republic)  CUDI (Mexico)  DANTE (Europe)  DFN-Verein (Germany)  Fundacion Internet 2 (Argentina)  GIP RENETAR (France)  GRNET (Greece)  HEAnet (Ireland)  HUNGARNET (Hungary)  INFN-GARR (Italy)  Israel-IUCC (Israel)  JAIRC (Japan)  NORDUnet (Nordic countries)  POL-34 (Poland)  RCCN (Portugal)  RedIRIS (Spain)  RESTENA (Luxembourg)  Stichting SURF (Netherlands)  SingAREN (Singapore)  SWITCH (Switzerland)  TAnet (Taiwan)  TERENA (Europe)  UKERNA (UK)  HUNGARNET (Hungary)  INFN-GARR (Italy)  Israel-IUCC (Israel)  JAIRC (Japan)  NORDUnet (Nordic countries)  POL-34 (Poland)  RCCN (Portugal)  RedIRIS (Spain)  RESTENA (Luxembourg)  Stichting SURF (Netherlands)  SingAREN (Singapore)  SWITCH (Switzerland)  TAnet (Taiwan)  TERENA (Europe)  UKERNA (UK)

32. Technology Transfer Conduits  Collaborating on advanced applications  Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols  Establishing expertise and human capital  Large-scale proof of concept

33. Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Internet Development Spiral Today’s Internet Internet2 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

34. Advanced Networking on the Web  www.internet2.edu  www.internet2.edu/abilene/  www.ngi.gov  www.vbns.net  www.advanced.org/teleimmersion (National Teleimmersion Initiative)

35. For More Internet2 Information  On the Web www.internet2.edu archives.internet2.edu  Email ghwood@internet2.edu info@internet2.edu

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