Internet2 Overview

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Internet2 Overview

Wichita State University University Computing and
Telecommunications Services (UCATS) and High
Performance Computing Center (HiPeCC)
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Internet2 Mission and Goals

• Internet2 Mission
• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows Internet.
• Internet2 Goals
• Enable new generation of applications
• Re-create leading edge RE network capability
• Transfer technology and experience to the global
  production Internet

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Internet2 Partnerships

• Internet2 fosters the partnerships and
  collaboration that spurred the development of the
  Internet.
• Academia
• Industry
• Government
• International

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Internet2 Universities206 University Members,
May 2005
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Internet2 Corporate Partners
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Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

• Arbor Networks
• BroadSoft
• Ford Motor Company
• Foundry Networks
• Hewlett-Packard Company
• inSORS Integrated Communications

• Ixia
• Polycom Worldwide
• Pulver.com Enterprises
• RADVISION
• TANDBERG
• VBrick Systems

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Internet2 Corporate Members

• ADVA Optical Networking
• Advanced Infrastructure Ventures
• Apparent Networks
• Apple Computer, Inc.
• Avaya, Inc.
• Avici Systems
• C-SPAN
• Ciena
• Comcast Cable
• Dell, Inc.
• EBSCO Information Services
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Fujitsu Laboratories of America
• Japan Telecom Co., LTD
• Johnson Johnson - Raritan
• KDDI Corporation
• Level 3 Communications
• LifeSize Communications
• Marratech AB

• Meriton Networks
• Napster, LLC
• Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT)
• Northrop Grumman Information Technology
• PaeTec Communications, Inc.
• Procket Networks
• Progress Software
• ProQuest Company
• Prous Science
• Red Hat Inc.
• Sprint
• Steelcase, Inc.
• The Thomson Corporation
• VCON, Inc.
• Verizon Communications
• Video Furnace, Inc.
• VoEx, Inc.
• Warner Bros.
• Wave Three Software

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Internet2 Affiliate Members

• Altarum
• American Distance Education Consortium
• Association of Universities for Research in
  Astronomy (AURA)
• CENIC
• CERN
• Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
• Cleveland Institute of Music
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Desert Research Institute
• EDUCAUSE
• Food and Drug Administration
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications
  System (IHETS)
• Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• LaNet

• The Library of Congress
• Manhattan School of Music
• MCNC
• Merit Network, Inc.
• MOREnet
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Institutes of Health
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  Washington, D.C.
• National Science Foundation
• New World Symphony
• NJEDge.Net
• NYSERNet, Inc.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• OARnet

OneNet Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory PeachNet Ruth Lilly Health Education
Center Southeastern Universities Research
Association (SURA) Southwest Research
Institute TOPIX U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Dept. of
Commerce Boulder Labs United States Holocaust
Museum University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research University of North Carolina, General
Administration The World Bank
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Sponsored Education Group Participants
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Sponsored Education Group Success Story
The 389 students in the Howe OK school district
have begun to travel outside their remote school
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Atlanta to visit Zoo Atlanta. They have been to
Cincinnati where they learned about the Black
King Snake. They have been on a navy battleship
anchored in New York Harbor. Why they even like
New York so much they are going to go to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in
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Spring, 2002.Federal Computer Week
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Kan-ed
Where Kansans Access the Information Age

• K-12/Higher Ed
• Hospitals
• Libraries

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What Kan-ed Does

• Kan-ed provides subsidies to help members pay
  their commercial Internet costs.
• Kan-ed has built a private, statewide network to
  which constituents may connect for video
  collaboration and data sharing. Network
  components are leased through Kansas' facility
  and equipment providers, and the network is
  managed through the Kan-ed Network Operations
  Center (NOC).
• Kan-ed provides grants to help members pay for
  Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) classrooms
  and connect them to other IDL sites around the
  state over the Kan-ed network. Well over 120 such
  classrooms can now share classes throughout the
  state.
• Kan-ed provides grants to members who want to
  develop and/or implement innovative uses of the
  network over 500K in FY05.
• Kan-ed provides members with a framework for
  delivering quality content and services for our
  members and controlling access to content and
  services through the Kan-ed portal.

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Internet2 Association Members

• ACUTA The Association for Communications
  Technology Professionals in Higher Ed
• Campus EAI Consortium

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Advanced Networking Organizations around the
World
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Networks reachable via Abilene - by country
Last updated 01 May 2005
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
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) Latvia
(LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA)
Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Canada
(CAnet) Chile (REUNA) Mexico (Red-CUDI) United
States (Abilene, vBNS) Venezuela
(REACCIUN-2)
Malta (Univ. Malta) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway
(UNINETT) Poland (POL34) Portugal (RCTS2) Qatar
(Qatar FN) Romania (RoEduNet)Russia
(RBnet) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain
(RedIRIS) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland
(SWITCH) United Kingdom (JANET) Turkey
(ULAKBYM) CERN
Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET,
NSFCNET) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET, WIDE,
IMNET, JGN) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Singapore
(SingAREN) Philippines (PREGINET) Taiwan (TANet2,
ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
More information athttp//abilene.internet2.edu/
peernetworks/international.html
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware and Security
• Advanced Applications

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Internet2 Network Infrastructure

• Abilene backbone operates at 10 gigabits per
  second capacity today
• GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance
  aggregation points
• Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the
  desktop
• National LambdaRail (NLR) provides access to
  multiple wavelengths on dedicated national fiber
  facility
• FiberCo provides dark fiber nationwide

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Optical Networking

• National LambdaRail www.nlr.net
• A fiber infrastructure that supports multiple
  networks
• for research and development of Internet
  technologies and protocols
• new applications and services
• FiberCo www.fiberco.org
• Holding dark fiber assets to assign to other
  organizations
• Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure Project
• Experimenting with future network technologies,
  infrastructures, and architectures

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Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Initiative
(HOPI)

• Exploring the evolution of the Internets core
• Examining a hybrid of packet switching and
  dynamically provisioned lambdas
• Engaging industry, regional, and international
  partners
• Deploying a testbed based on design teams white
  paper

hopi.internet2.edu
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Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure
Abilene and National LambdaRail Fiber Footprints
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The Wizard Gap
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End-to-End Performance

• Working across all layers of the system
• Bring many performance-related efforts together
  to enable visibility and management of the path
  as a system.
• Developing and deploying
• End-to-End Performance Improvement Performance
  Environment System (piPEs)
• Internet2 Performance Package
• Applications Beacons
• Working to harness to Open Software community

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End-to-End Performance Initiative Goals and
Deployment

• Provide performance information to end-users and
  network operators
• Develop new performance test options and tools
  for network engineers
• Make performance data publicly available
• Establish an interoperable performance framework

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware and Security
• Advanced Applications

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Federated Authentication

• Scalable, decentralized infrastructure
• Critical to a broad range of initiatives
• Being adopted and implemented
• Industry
• International partners
• Middleware is an increasingly enabling element
• Examples

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Middleware

• A layer of software between the network and the
  applications
• Authentication
• Identification
• Authorization
• Directories
• Security
• middleware.internet2.edu

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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

• Internet2 community has unique needs and
  capabilities
• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education
• Early Harvest and Early Adopters
• Internet2 PKI Labs
• Shibboleth (authentication)
• Computational middleware (Beta Grid)
• Medical middleware
• Directories

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Security and Stability

• Security at Line Speed
• Interaction with DHS
• REN/ISAC at Indiana University
• Partnership with corporate members to monitor and
  protect network infrastructure
• Moving toward an authenticated Internet with
  trust communities

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Internet2 Today
Applications
End-to-end Performance
Security
Motivate
Enable
Middleware
Services
Networks
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware and Security
• Advanced Applications

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Advanced Applications

• Distributed computation
• Virtual laboratories
• Digital libraries
• Distributed learning
• Digital video
• Tele-immersion
• All of the above in combination
• apps.internet2.edu

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Remote Rehearsal for Fine Arts
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Enhanced Surgical Planning

• Training
• Pre-surgical planning
• Interoperative segmentation
• Brain atlas
• fMRI

Ron Kikinis, M.D., Steve Pieper, Ph.D., Simon
Warfield, Ph.D. Brigham and Womens Hospital,
NIH, Harvard Medical School
Funded by NCRR/NIH
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New Methods of HealthScience Research
www.nbirn.net
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Improved Medical Training

• High bandwidth human interaction
• Low latency virtual reality
• Reliable access to computational resources
• Secure retrieval of medical images and data

Source Parvati Dev Stanford
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Tele-cubicles and the CAVE
Source University of Illinois-Chicago
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Real-time Accessto Remote Resources
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New Instruments for Astronomy
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Undersea Oceanography
Images National Geographic
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Synthetic Worlds

• Otherwise known as massive multiplayer
  interactive games
• Over 5 million inhabitants today
• Doubling every 18 months
• About 2 of the Internet-connected population age
  14-28 spend more time in the synthetic world than
  in the real world
• Linked to the real world
• Physical artifacts like playing cards
• Ebay auctions for money and resources
• Real people make real money

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Learning and Peer-to-Peer

• The classroom is the same, but learning is
  transformed
• Faculty define the objectives, but students
  create the learning environment
• Response to free music
• Penn State Napster
• LionShare
• Prospects for hybrid media products
• Texts with online extensions?

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VideoConferencingLewis and Clark Then and Now
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
Lewis Clark expedition, a three year long
re-enactment is in progress, retracing the route
of these early American explorers. The Internet2
Commons will provide H.323 videoconferencing and
streaming video connections via the
Internet-to-Go satellite trailer developed by Bob
Dixon of Ohio State University and OARnet. Live,
video streams will document the trip and give
students and others a chance to interact with the
expedition, with Sacagaweas tribe, and others
they will encounter along the way. The
collaboration includes K-12 schools, Native
American tribes, MOREnet, Apple Computer, and
others.
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WSU ApplicationsHeat Pump Performance
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WSU ApplicationsSW Pottery VR
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WSU ApplicationsBeech Wind Tunnel
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WSU ApplicationsGlobal Learning
Our Mission is to Combine Global Reach, through
modern communication technologies, and Global
Perspectives, through interaction with learners
and faculty of diverse cultures, to produce the
Global Graduate.

• Music Ireland, Canada
• Business Management Germany, Australia
• Communication Disorders Canada, Australia
• Womens Studies Taiwan, Mexico
• Robotics Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore
• Mechanical Engineering Australia
• Manufacturing Engineering Italy, Netherlands,
  Turkey
• Industrial Engineering France, Italy, Mexico,
  Australia
• Educational Leadership Denmark, G. Britain,
  Spain, Australia

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WSU ApplicationsViolin Improvisation
Members of the Shared Music - Shared Culture from
WSU and the University of Limerick perform
traditional Irish and American folk music
together across Internet2
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WSU ApplicationsTrombone Master Class
Russ Widener, Professor of Trombone, directs a
trombone choir while New World Symphony trombone
section watches (upper left). Solos and ensembles
performed and were also webcast on Kan-ed Live!
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WSU ApplicationsThe RoboTable
The RoboTable is a piece of frosted glass with a
computer screen projected on it. By actively
changing the table top, robots on two different
tables can collaborate or compete and a user at
either table can see both robots, one in the
virtual world and one in the real world.
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JASON Project - Kansas

• The JASON Project is an international,
  distance-learning program for k-12 schools. Its
  mission is to excite and engage students in
  science and technology and to motivate and
  provide professional development opportunities
  for their teachers using advanced, interactive
  telecommunications.

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Setting Foundations for Moving Forward
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Making Connections Across Technologies

• e-VLBI astronomers leverage end-to-end
  performance tools to fine-tune instrument
  connectivity
• Corporate members build on Shibboleth to
  implement authorization services in products
• Earthquake researchers routinely use the
  Internet2 Commons videoconferencing

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Supporting Network Research

• PlanetLab
• AMP Active Measurement Platform
• NLANR PMA Passive Measurement and Analysis
  (SDSC, UCSD)
• 100x100
• UltraLight

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Challenges to the Futureof the Internet

• Network architecture scalability
• End-to-end performance
• Limited reach of advanced capabilities
• Abuse of network resources by applications
• Security Authentication privacy
• Reduced investment in the Internet commons

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Keys to the Future of the Internet

• Connectivity
• Reliable
• Scalable
• High performance
• Architectural evolution
• Reach
• Ease of use, privacy, and security
• Integration with advanced applications

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Imperatives for the Advanced Networking Community

• Continue to provide leadership
• Make real progress in Internet technology
• Beyond connectivity performance, security, and
  reliability
• Meet requirements beyond the reach of
  evolutionary change
• Work together
• No organization, national or regional can succeed
  in isolation

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More Internet2 Information

• On the Web
• www.internet2.edu
• www.wichita.edu/internet2.html

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More informationwww.internet2.edu/about/lists.ht
mlinfo_at_internet2.edu
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Collaboration Examples

• Virtual Reality Collaboration Demo
• Dancing Beyond Boundaries
• String Improvisation Day
• New World Symphony