Internet2: nuevas aplicaciones gracias a la banda ancha

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Internet2 nuevas aplicaciones gracias a la banda
ancha

• Heather Boyles
• INTERNET99
• 4 de febrero
• Madrid

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History

• ARPAnet origins
• 1987 -- NSFnet
• Privatization in 1995
• Higher ed planning in 1995/1996
• Are our research and education needs being met by
  todays internet?

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Commercialization
Privatization
Interoperable
21st Century
High Performance
Networking
SprintLink
Research Education
InternetMCI
Networks
US Govt
Networks
ANS
ARPAnet
NSFNET
Active
gigabit
Nets
testbeds
wireless
Internet2, Abilene, vBNS
WDM
Advanced US Govt Networks
Quality of Service
(QoS)
Research and
Development
Partnerships
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What is Internet2?

• a project
• led by universities
• to develop and deploy new Internet applications
  and technologies
• in order to meet the university mission of
  research and education

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History of Internet2

• 1986/7- 1995 NSFnet
• 1994/5 NSFnet privatized
• 1995/6 universities articulate requirements for
  next generation networking
• October 1996 Internet2 Project formed
• October 1997 UCAID formed
• April 1998 Abilene Project Announced
• September 1998 Middleware Initiative Announced
• January 1999 Abilene in Production

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Internet2 Project Goals

• Enable new generation of applications
• Re-create leading edge RE network capability
• Transfer capability to the global production
  Internet

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UCAID Member Universities141 Members as of
January 1999
University of Puerto Rico not shown
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Internet2 Corporate Partners

• Lucent Technologies
• MCI Worldcom
• Newbridge Networks
• Nortel Networks
• Qwest Communications
• StarBurst Communications

• 3Com
• Advanced Network Services, Inc.
• ATT
• Cabletron Systems
• Cisco Systems
• FORE
• IBM

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Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

• Bell South
• Packet Engines
• SBC Technology Resources
• StorageTek
• Torrent Technologies

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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

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Internet2 Applications

• Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements
  in the conduct of
• Research
• Teaching
• Learning
• Require advanced networking

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Advanced Networking

• Richer content through higher bandwidth
• Video, audio
• Virtual reality
• Dynamic not static
• More interactivity via minimal delay
• Reliable delivery through quality of service model

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Many Disciplines and Contexts

• Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
• Health care
• Business/Law
• Administration

• Instruction
• Collaboration
• Streaming video
• Distributed computation
• Data mining
• Virtual reality
• Digital libraries

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Virtual Laboratories

• Interactive research and instruction
• Real-time access to remote scientific
  instruments

Images courtesy of the University of Michigan
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Virtual Laboratories

• Real-time access to remote instruments
• University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh
  Supercomputing Center3-D Brain Mapping

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Digital Libraries

• Video and audio
• Indiana UniversityVariations Project

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Distributed Computation

• Multi-site databases
• Old Dominion University Chesapeake Bay
  Simulation

Image courtesy of Old Dominion University
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Distributed Computation

• Large-scale computation
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Image courtesy of UCAR
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Teleimmersion

• Shared virtual reality
• University of Illinois at ChicagoVirtual
  Temporal Bone

Images courtesy Univ of Illinois-Chicago
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Middleware

• Identify technologies that are scalable and
  interoperable
• security
• collaborations services
• digital voice and video
• filters/agents for persistent online presence
• technologies for control of remote
  instrumentation
• distributed file services

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The Network

• Services required in the network to enable
  advanced applications
• Establish quality of service (QoS)
• Support native multicast

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Applications and Engineering
Applications
Motivate
Enables
Engineering
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Network Architecture
GigaPoP One
GigaPoP Two
GigaPoP Four
GigaPoP Three
Gigabit capacity point of presence
an aggregation point for regional connectivity
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GigaPoPs, cont.
University A
E.g. vBNS, Abilene
GigaPoP One
Commodity Internet Connections
Regional Network
University B
University C
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Internet2 GigaPoPs
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Abilene Project

• Provide advanced network testbed
• Support Internet2 applications development
• Demonstrate next generation operational and
  quality of service capabilities
• Create facilities for network research

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Abilene NetworkJanuary 1999
Seattle
Cleveland
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Houston
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Abilene Characteristics

• 2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6
  Gbps (OC192)
• Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3)
• IP over Sonet technology
• Access PoPs very close to almost all of the
  anticipated university gigaPoPs

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Abilene Schedule

• Fall 1998 Demonstrated network at member
  meeting, in pre-production at several
  universities, connected to Chicago switch for
  STAR TAP
• Janurary 1999 Initial set of members connected
  in production mode
• By December 1999 around 65 institutions
  connected

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For UCAID Members

• Involvement in the decisions
• Responsive to continuing needs
• Driven by member research
• Potential for increasing connectivity for all
  UCAID university members wanting to participate
  in Research Goals.

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Current Priorities

• Establish backbone connectivity
• Facilitate middleware implementation
• Support network research
• Identify and develop first phase applications
• Build international collaboration opportunities

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US Federal Government Next Generation Internet
(NGI) Programhttp//www.ngi.gov

• Established in parallel with Internet2
• multi-agency research and development (RD)
  program to develop, test, and demonstrate
  advanced networking technologies and applications
• via testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times faster
  end-to-end than today's Internet

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Internet2 lt--gt NGI Relationship

• Similar technical objectives
• Focused on different, but complementary
  communities
• NGI Federal Mission agencies
• UCAID/Internet2 university research and
  education community
• Working to interconnect, make interoperable
  federal research networks and Abilene

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Internet2 lt--gt NGI Relationship contd

• Cooperative programs
• NSF High Performance Connections grants UCAID
  universities using to connect to achieve
  Internet2 connectivity
• Abilene lt-gt Energy, NASA network interconnection
  being planned to provide high performance access
  for universities to research labs
• Applications researchers benefit from numerous
  federal grants that help develop applications

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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
• In process TERENA, SingAREN, JAIRC, APAN and
  others

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What kind of collaborations?

• Network interconnection
• Abilene and CAnet2, SURFnet, NORDUnet, etc.
• Specific project collaboration
• QBone
• middleware
• research/learning applications
• Technology transfer
• mutual industrial participants?

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Information exchange

• International task force
• to advise our Board, management on issues of
  international collaborations
• Greater participation in international groups
• CCIRN
• GIBN

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Recap

• Its the applications, stupid!
• Bandwidth is important, but not everything (think
  qos!)
• Technology transfer is crucial universities (and
  everybody else) need to buy this stuff in a
  competitive commercial marketplace

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More Information

• Me
• heather_at_internet2.edu
• Internet2
• www.internet2.edu
• Abilene
• www.internet2.edu/abilene
• UCAID
• www.ucaid.edu