Large Enough To Lead Small Enough To Care

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November 10, 2000
Northern Michigan
www.i2.mtu.edu

Large Enough To Lead Small Enough To Care
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The art of progress is to ... preserve order
amid change and to preserve change amid
order.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Agenda

• Internet Tidbits
• Next Generation Internet
• Internet2 Corporate Participation
• GigaPoPs TeraPoPs
• Internet2 Backbone
• I2 Goals and Initiatives
• Michigan Tech Applications

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The Internet Changes Everything
changing the way we do business
changing how we do business

• Not Just a Technology Change
• A New Way of Doing Business
• Expand market opportunities
• Offer new ways to collaborate

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Next Generation Internet

• Sensory Communication
• teleimmersion (beyond the cave)
• visual ( aural, tactile, kinesthetic,
  olfactory)
• Death of Distance
• Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace Access
• High Bandwidth
• Reliability and Performance for Mission Critical
  Applications
• Content and Producers are Everywhere
• Distributed Intelligence
• Changes the way we do business and access
  resources

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Internet2
Mission Facilitate and coordinate the
development, deployment, operation and technology
transfer of advanced, network-based applications
and network services to further U.S. leadership
in research and higher education and accelerate
the availability of new services and applications
on the Internet.
Goals

• Enable a new generation of applications
• Recreate a leading edge research and education
  network
• Transfer new capabilities to the global
  production Internet

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Internet2 Corporate Participation
Over 70 Corporations (October 2000)
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Michigan Internet2 GigaPoP
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179 Institutions as of October 2000


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Internet2 Universities179 Members as of October
2000
University of Puerto Rico not shown
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GigaPoP and TeraPop
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Internet2 Backbone Network
Seattle
Cleveland
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Houston
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Next Generation Internet Exchange
UCAID Abilene
NGIE
MAE East
NIH, USGS, DOT, And Other Federal Agencies
MAX Institutions Other Research Sites
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Michigan Internet2 GigaPoP


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Internet2 Goals

• Enhance competitiveness of faculty, students,
  citizens of Michigan through early access to
  advanced communications services.
• Speed technology transfer through the research,
  prototype, commercialization cycle.
• Provide a linchpin for commercially driven next
  generation network development efforts.
• Facilitate new economic paradigms for converged
  information services.

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Internet2 Initiatives MTU Actively Involved With

• Abilene
• QBone
• www.internet2.edu/qos/qbone/
• Multicast
• Distributed Storage I2-DSI
• dsi.internet2.edu
• Digital Video I2-DV
• i2dv.nwu.icair.org
• I2MI GlueWorks
• www.internet2.edu/middleware

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Related Campus Initiatives

• Middleware
• Digital Certificates
• PKI
• Electronic Signature
• Email System Evolution
• Message self-destruct after a time limit
• Limit of time message can be open read
• Tag to prevent message forwarding
• Label to prevent cutting, pasting printing

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Michigan Tech Internet2 Applications

• Desktop Videoconferencing
• Remote Sensing
• Remote Microscopy
• Real Time Supercomputer Processing
• Many Body Perturbation Problem Analysis
• Video/Audio Streaming
• Electronic Collaboration Tools
• Real Time Transfer of Large 3D Data Files
• MPEG2 Program Encoding Broadcast

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November 10, 2000

Northern Michigan
www.i2.mtu.edu
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