Internet2 Focus Areas

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Internet2 Network Infrastructure

• Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) to 10 Gbps
  (OC192) capacity today
• GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance
  aggregation points
• Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the
  desktop

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Download of The Matrix DVD(Comparison of the
Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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Internet2 Network Architecture
GigaPoP One
GigaPoP Two
GigaPoP Four
GigaPoP Three
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Network Architecture
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Abilene Network Core Map, March 2003
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Abilene Network Logical Map
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Internet2 GigaPoPs31 as of March 2003
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Abilene International PeeringMarch 2003
09 January 2002
Last updated 14 January 2003
Abilene International Peering(January 2003)
STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC, CAnet, CERN,
CERNET/CSTNET/NSFCNET, NAUKAnet, GEMnet, HARNET,
KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SingAREN,
TANET2
Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC, CAnet,
TANET2
NYCM GEANT, HEANET, NORDUnet, SINET, SURFnet
SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE(v6)
LOSA UNINET
OC12
AMPATH ANSP, REUNA2, RNP2, RETINA (REACCIUN-2)
San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI
El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI

• ARNES, ACONET, BELNET, CARNET, CERN, CESnet,
  CYNET, DFN, EENet, GARR, GRNET, HEANET, IUCC,
  JANET, LATNET, LITNET, NORDUNET, RENATER,
  RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCST,
  RedIRIS, SANET, SURFNET
• WIDE/JGN, IMnet, CERNet/CSTnet,/NSFCNET,
  KOREN/KREONET2, SingAREN, TANET2, ThaiSARN

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Middlewarehttp//middleware.internet2.edu/

• A layer of software between the network and the
  applications
• Authentication
• Identification
• Authorization
• Directories
• Security

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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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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Engineering Working Groups

• IPv6
• Measurement
• Multicast
• Quality of Service
• Routing
• Security
• Topology

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Advanced Applications http//apps.internet2.edu/

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

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High Performance Video Delivery with Logistical
Networking
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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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Virtual Laboratories

• Real-time access to remote instruments
• University of North Carolina, Chapel
  HillDistributed nanoManipulator

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Virtual Laboratories

• Mauna Kea Observatories
• AURA
• University of Hawaii

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Virtual Laboratories

• Space Physics Aeronomy Research Collaboratory
  (SPARC)
• University of Michigan
• NSF

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Tele-immersion

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

Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
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Tele-cubicles and the CAVE
Source University of Illinois-Chicago
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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Applications
• Partnerships

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Internet2 Partnerships

• Internet2 universities are recreating the
  partnerships that fostered the Internet in its
  infancy
• Industry
• Government
• International

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Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet
Initiative
Internet2
NGI
Federal agency-led
University-led
Agency mission-driven and general purpose
applications
Developing education and research driven
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
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National Networks

• Internet2 Backbone Networks
• Abilene
• vBNS
• Federal Backbone Networks
• DREN
• ESnet
• NREN
• SuperNet

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Technology Transfer Conduits

• Collaborating on advanced applications
• Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and
  protocols
• Establishing expertise and human capital
• Large-scale proof of concept

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International Partnerships

• Ensure global interoperability
• of the next generation of Internet technologies
  and applications
• Enable global collaboration
• in research and education providing/promoting the
  development of an advanced networking environment
  internationally

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International Partners

• Build effective partnerships in other countries
  with organizations of similar goals/objectives
  and similar constituencies
• Mechanism Memoranda of Understanding

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International MoU Map
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Unanticipated Innovation

• Lesson of the Web
• Network growth and value are non-linear
• New technologies enable qualitatively different
  uses
• Users become innovators

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More Internet2 Information

• On the Web
• www.internet2.edu
• www.internet2.edu/about/lists.html
• Email
• info_at_internet2.edu

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