Internet2: directions for 1999 and opportunities for collaboration with NGI

Doug Van Houweling

dvh@internet2.edu

LSN Meeting

9 February 1999

Internet2 Project Goals

Enable new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network

capability

Transfer capability to the global

production Internet

Progress

2.5 years ago:Internet2 Project formedOctober 1996

1.5 year ago: UCAID IncorporatedOctober 1997

10 months ago:Abilene LaunchedApril 1998

Today 141 universities 47 corporations 7 gigapops connected to vBNS Abilene in service w/ 20 institutions

connected Abilene peering with vBNS, ESnet QoS -- QBone initiative launched Middleware initiative launched

UCAID Member Universities141 Members as of January 1999

University of Puerto Rico not shown

Internet2 Corporate Partners

3Com Advanced Network &

Services AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM ITC^DeltaCom

3Com Advanced Network &

Services AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM ITC^DeltaCom

Lucent Technologies

MCI Worldcom

Newbridge Networks

Nortel Networks

Qwest Communications

StarBurst Communications

Lucent Technologies

MCI Worldcom

Newbridge Networks

Nortel Networks

Qwest Communications

StarBurst Communications

Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

Bell South Packet Engines SBC Technology

Resources StorageTek Torrent

Technologies

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

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

Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Telebeam Teleglobe Williams

Communications

Abilene

Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting

January 1999: Abilene in full service• peering with: vBNS, ESnet

By December 1999: around 65 institutions connected

Abilene NetworkFebruary 1999

Cleve

land

New York

Atlanta

Indianapolis

Kansas City

Houston

Denver

Los Angeles

Sacramento

Seattle

Abilene Router Node

Abilene Access Node

Operational January 1999

Planned 1999

Middleware Initiative Objective: a “Services Rich” Network

Environment Functional services available to users and

developers• Enabling new collaborations and applications• Supported as production quality• An integrated framework

Scaled to the size of the research and education community

Applications: Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions

Middleware:Security, Directory, Quality of Service,Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting,Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast

Operating system and network services

Standard APIs

Standard APIs

Interoperable Protocols

Technology Scope

QoS Digital video/audio Security Collaboration Directories Multicast File systems Measurement Remote instruments IMS

Transaction systems Meta-computing Management IP telephony Accounting/billing E-commerce Object brokers Search mechanisms Printing

Avoiding BalkanizationPhysics

Applications

PhysicsQoS

Digital LibraryApplications

Digital LibraryQoS

InstructionalApplications

InstructionalQoS

Data MiningApplications

Data MiningQoS

TCP/IP Network

PhysicsSecurity

PhysicsDirectories

PhysicsStorage

Digital LibrarySecurity

Digital LibraryDirectories

Digital LibraryStorage

InstructionalSecurity

InstructionalDirectories

InstructionalStorage

Data MiningSecurity

Data MiningDirectories

Data MiningStorage

Initiative Overview

Deliverables

•Identification of a small number of key community projects

•Information dissemination•Demos •Workshops

Principles

Focus on problems where

•We have a unique incentive to solve

•The benefit to our community is clear and compelling

•Results are attainable in a reasonable timeframe

QBone Initiative

An interdomain testbed for differentiated services

Goals:• Grow a snowball of interoperable DiffServ clouds• Grow a community of participants• Foster pre-standards interoperability• Collaborate to solve problems and share

experiences

Initial participants have been identified and met in several cases

Initial Participants

•Abilene •CAnet*2•iCAIR Consortium

APAN, CTIT, EVL, Indiana University, MREN, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, SingAREN (Backbone network), STAR TAP, SURFnet (Backbone network), TransPAC (Backbone interconnect)

Initial Participants - cont’d• IPPM Surveyor Project•Merit / University of Michigan•NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative•NREN•NYSERNet•PSC / NLANR / CMU•Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP•UMN•UPenn/ UMass•vBNS

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, TERENA*, SingAREN, JAIRC

In process: UK, Italy, Germany, France

International collaborations cont’d

Network interconnection• Interconnection at STAR TAP (CAnetII,

SURFnet, NORDUnet, SingAREN underway)• Second interconnection directly with

Abilene (NY - NORDUnet, SURFnet) Specific project collaboration

• QBone (e.g. SURFnet an initial participant)• middleware• research/learning applications

Next Steps

Continue to interconnect member desktops and servers at high speed

Continue to support advanced applications development• focus on multi-campus implementations

Adopt, develop and implement • QoS end-to-end• middleware end-to-end• new business models

Internet2 and NGI collaboration

JET• Internet2 participation (Guy Almes, Paul Love)• JET + I2 Topology WG joint meetings: NGIX

HPNAT• Internet2 participation (Ted Hanss)

Internet2 Working Groups• NGI network or agency participation in

Internet2 WGs: IPv6, QoS, Measurement, Routing, Topology

I2-NGI cont’d Abilene

• NSF HPNSP network serving HPC awardees Network interconnection

• Abilene and vBNS peering• Abilene and ESnet peering• Abilene and vBNS at Chicago NGIX

Demonstrations• cross-participation in Oct97, Mar98, Apr98

demonstrations at Highway 1

I2-NGI collaboration cont’d

Are there other opportunities for collaboration?• Engaging researchers on campus• greater collaboration in identifying

and developing applications We’re interested in discussing!