Internet2 Status Update

Ted Hanss

Director, Applications Development

TERENA - 23 May 2000

http://apps.internet2.edu/talks/

Topics

Organization

Applications

The Network

Organization

Internet2 Mission

Facilitating the development and deployment of advanced applications and network services for research and education, accelerating the next generation of the internet.

Organization Overview

Not-for-profit consortium

• 178 U.S. university members

• 70+ corporate members

• 40+ non-profit members

• Board made up primarily of university presidents

Separate from, but cooperates with, Federal Government’s Next Generation Internet initiative

Applications

Internet2 Applications

What are “I2 applications”?

They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning

They require advanced networks to work

Different Disciplines/Contexts

Sciences

Arts

Humanities

Health care

Business/Law

Administration

…

Instruction

Collaboration

Streaming video

Data mining

Virtual reality

Digital libraries

…

Application Attributes

Interactive collaboration and instruction

Real-time access to remote resources

Attributes, cont.

Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing

Shared virtual reality

Any combination of the above

Digital Video Applications

MPEG2 video conferencing

MPEG1 broadcast distribution and archiving

HDTV-based digital cinema, web cams, network-based studio production, …

Multicast video conferencing

• VRVS with CERN/Caltech

• Access Grid room-based environments

Health Sciences Initiative

First Internet2 domain focus area

Variety of potential initiatives

• Education

• Clinical

• Research

Roadmap in part from “Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet”

• National Research Council report, www.nap.edu

Help Needed

How to best reach the disciplines?

• “Joint Techs” experience versus reaching faculty

What are the next areas of opportunity?

• 3G mobile phone applications in research and education?

Middleware

Middleware

Focus areas

• Identification

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Directories

I2 Middleware Initiative

Education community has unique needs and capabilities

• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)

• Early Harvest and Early Adopters

Best PracticesIdentification

Best PracticesImplementation

Knowledge transfer

I2 Middleware Initiative

• PKI– Certificate policies

• Shibboleth– inter-realm authentication for web content

• Medical middleware• Directories

– edu-Person schema– lookup of ted@“higher education”

Abilene Network

Abilene Characteristics

Production net for applications R&D

2.4 gbps (OC48) increasing to 9.6 gbps (OC192)

Connections at 2.4 gbps, 622 (OC12) or 155 mbps (OC3)

IP over Sonet technology

Peering points evolving through “International Transit Network”

Abilene Network

Seattle

Kansas City

ClevelandNew York

Atlanta

Houston

Sacramento

Los Angeles

Denver IndianapolisWashington

Sacramento

Los Angeles

Washington, DC

Characteristics, cont.

End-to-end services focus

• Multicast

• IPv6

• Advanced measurement

• Quality of service

Quality of Service

Initiating “Abilene Premium Service” to enable loss/jitter intolerant applications

• Reference implementation of QBONE architecture

• Uses Expedited Forwarding (RFC2598)

• Contract: leased line emulation at a specified peak rate

– Near-zero loss

– Low, bounded jitter

Internet2 Land Speed Record

832 mbps across 5262 kilometers

Team

• Information Sciences Institute at USC

• Microsoft

• Qwest

• University of Washington

International Activities

www.internet2.edu/international

MoU Partners

AAIREP (Australia)APAN (Asia-Pacific)APAN-KR (Korea)ARNES (Slovenia)BELNET (Belgium)CANARIE (Canada)CESnet (Czech Republic)CUDI (Mexico)DANTE (Europe)DFN-Verein (Germany)Fundacion Internet 2 Argentina (Argentina)GIP RENATER (France)GRNET (Greece)HEAnet (Ireland)HUNGARNET (Hungary)INFN-GARR (Italy)

Israel-IUCC (Israel)JAIRC (Japan)NORDUnet (Nordic countries)POL-34 (Poland)RCCN (Portugal)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxembourg)REUNA (Chile)RNP2 (Brazil)SingAREN (Singapore)Stichting SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)TAnet2 (Taiwan)TERENA (Europe)JISC/UKERNA (UK)

NGIX-Chicago/ STAR TAPAbilene CA*net3 APANvBNS CERN SURFnetESnet MIRnet SINETDREN RENATER2 SingARENNREN/NISN IUCC TANet2NORDUnet GEMnet

Miami

Los Angeles

Abilene

Seattle

Abilene

CA*net3

SingAREN

EsnetDREN

New York CityvBNS DFNAbilene JAnetESnet SURFnetINFN NORDUnetDANTE CA*net3

Distributed STAR TAP

More Information

Meetings

Joint Techs

• 21-25 August in Toronto (joint with CANARIE)

• 28-31 January in Hawaii (joint with APAN)

Member Meeting

• 29 October - 1 November in Atlanta

Contact Info ...

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ted@internet2.edu

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