Examples of partnerships and collaborations from the Internet2 experience

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Examples of partnerships and collaborations from
the Internet2 experience

• Interworking2004
• Ottawa, Canada
• Heather Boyles, Internet2
• heather_at_internet2.edu

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Internet2 Mission and Goals

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows Internet.
• Facilitate the creation of a high-performance
  network environment for the higher education and
  research community
• To facilitate the development and use of new
  Internet applications and technologies in support
  of research, teaching and learning
• Share knowledge, experience and technologies with
  the broader Internet community

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Who is Internet2 today?

• 208 US (research) universities
• 60 corporate members
• Increasingly user industries Ford,
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• 40 others (affiliates)
• US Government research labs NASA Goddard, NIH
• Regional/state research and education networking
  organizations CENIC, NYSERNET
• 45 international partners

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Internet2 Today and Tomorrow
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Selection of activities/projects

• Network Infrastructure
• Abilene, Fiberco, Hybrid Optical Packet
  Infrastructure (HOPI), National Lambda Rail (NLR)
  support
• Network Services
• Abilene Observatory, IPv6, Multicast, Performance
  Measurement and Monitoring (end-to-end
  performance initiative)
• International
• Global coordination with NRENs around the world
• Middleware
• Authentication/Authorization tools (Shibboleth),
  Trust federation (InCommon)
• Security
• Security at Line Speed (SALSa)
• Applications
• Collaboration environments (Internet2 Commons),
  Outreach to user communities (science
  engineering arts humanities health sciences)

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How does Internet2 work?

• Partnerships and collaborations
• Universities, research centers, industry,
  government
• Bringing a variety of resources (money, human,
  facilities)
• Volunteer work of individuals in those
  organizations
• Working groups workshop instructors/leaders
  speakers at technical meetings
• Pooled resources (member dues, grants) fund
  individuals
• NSF Middleware Initiative example
• Staff funded by member dues
• Facilitate, coordinate, support

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One Example the Abilene backbone network

• High-performance, nationwide, network serving
  Internet2 members
• Started as partnership
• Industry Cisco Systems, NortelNetworks, Qwest
  Communications
• University Indiana University
• Partnerships have evolved Juniper Networks, NC
  and Ohio ITECs, etc.
• Internet2 coordinates, facilitates

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What is NLR?

• A collaboration among a consortium of research
  universities, member organizations and private
  sector technology companies
• The first of its kind, higher-education-owned
  national optical network facility
• A prototype for dark-fiber acquisition (IRUs),
  motivator of regional optical network creation,
  and another opportunity for researcher-CIO
  coordination (50 dedicated to research)

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NLR Goals

• Create a national networking physical
  infrastructure
• Support multiple experimental and production
  networks at multiple layers
• Foster both the advancement of networking
  research and next-generation network-enabled
  applications in science, engineering, medicine,
• Promote connectivity at all layers to facilitate
  new forms of peering relationships among
  high-performance research and education networks

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International collaborations

• Collaborating on technology development and
  deployment
• Providing a global network environment for
  collaborations by scientists, artists, teachers,
  health practitioners, etc.

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Internet2 Other Advanced Networking
Organizations
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Technology Development and Deployment Example 1

• Lightpath concept
• Articulated by Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE
• Focus on providing access to sub-IP (Layer 3)
  capabilities for high-end users facilities
• Development collaboration
• US, CA, NL and other contributors to concept,
  technology
• CANARIEs UCLP software extensions developed by
  other national research network organizations
• Deployment collaboration
• Initial testbeds both national and international
  (EuroLink)
• GLIF forum yearly meeting of organizations
  working on deployment of these capabilities

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Technology Development and Deployment Example 2

• National Authentication and Authorization
  Infrastructures
• National infrastructures to facilitate
  inter-institutional sharing of resources
• Utilizing local authentication
• Allow virtual organizations (e.g. grid user
  communities) to control authorization
• AuthN/Z tool Shibboleth (Internet2)
• Developed by Internet2 community initially
• Major work pieces being done in UK, Australia
• Deployment of National AAIs
• In collaboration across countries
• Cotswolds group

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Supporting global collaborations in research,
teaching and learning

• Many science and engineering fields
• Facilities are singular and/or expensive and/or
  distributed (Particle physics astronomy)
• Data point of collection is dispersed archival
  distributed (earth observation 3D visualizations
  from medical records)
• Scale, expense, diversity require multiple
  collaborators
• Health sciences
• Expertise is distributed
• Effectiveness in working hours
• Pathology, radiology

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An example teaching and learning

• Music
• Master classes
• Conducting Conservatories
• Auditions
• Expertise is scarce, distributed
• Students from diverse locations

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Conclusions

• Partnership and collaboration between academia,
  industry, government is key
• Collaboration between organizations developing
  and deploying advanced networks provides global
  platform
• The goal enabling global collaborations in
  research, teaching and learning
• Providing a showcase and proving ground for new
  technologies, uses of the network

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