Internet2 101 US R&E Networking From the ARPANET to Today Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 13-Oct-03 – Indianapolis JJ Jamison (and Guy Almes)

10/09/03 1 Agenda  Some History  US R&E Projects and Networks  US International R&E Connectivity  Pointers to More Info

10/09/03 1 ARPANET  1969 – 1990  Funded by ARPA  Connected Universities, Federally Funded and Private Research Labs, and DoD Labs and other Facilities  1983  Cutover from NCP to TCP/IP  ARPANET split into ARPANET and MILNET

10/09/03 1 ARPANET December 1969 From ARPANET Completion Report, BBN, 1978

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1 ARPANET July 1977 From ARPANET Completion Report, BBN, 1978

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1 NSFnet  1985 – 1995  Started off connecting 5 Supercomputer Centers  JvNSC, SDSC, NCSA, CTC, PSC  Grew to connect Universities and Regional Nets  Served as the Internet’s backbone  1995  Internet is served by multiple commercial backbones  NSF shuts the NSFnet down

10/09/03 1 NSFnet 1986

10/09/03 1 NSFnet 1986– Kbps - T3 (45Mbps)

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1 vBNS/vBNS+  1995 – Today  vBNS comes up as the NSFnet goes offline  Connects 5 Supercomputer Centers  CTC, NCAR, NCSA, PSC, SDSC  And 4 NAPS: Ameritech, MFS, PacBell, Sprint  1997  vBNS’s role expanded to serve the Top 100 US Research Universities  2000  NSF grants a 3-year no-cost (to NSF) extension of the vBNS project  vBNS+ now serves R&E networking needs of several Federal agencies  USGS; NMCI; DREN

10/09/03 1 vBNS 1995 Served only Supercomputer Centers

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1 Abilene  1998  14-April announcement at the White House  Demonstration at Fall Member Meeting  1999  OC-48 network operational at end of January  Native IP multicast operational by mid-year  2000  Abilene begins to serve a larger community including K- 12 schools  2002  Native IPv6 operational  OC-192 upgrade initiated

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1 Agenda  Some History  US R&E Projects and Networks  US International R&E Connectivity  Pointers to More Info

10/09/03 1 US R&E Networks and Projects  NGI  Abilene  TeraGrid  National Fiber/Wave Projects  JET

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1 TeraGrid Backplane  Embedded IP Network that serves as the backplane of the TeraGrid (a distributed Supercomputer)  The TeraGrid is distributed across 4 facilities  NCSA, ANL, SDSC, and Caltech  PSC recently added  There are plans to expand to:  Oak Ridge  Indiana  Texas

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10/09/03 1 National Fiber/Wave Projects  USA Waves  SURA (Southern University Research Association) initiative  Outgrowth of SURA National Buyers Consortium  Proposed cooperative agreement with AT&T  National Light (Lambda) Rail  National facilities based approach for optical networking and network research  Outgrowth of Pacific Light Rail  Leadership: CENIC, Pacific Northwest GigaPoP  Corporate Partners: Level3, Cisco  Fiberco  A fiber holding company  Can hold national/regional fiber assets with the capability of assign to other organizations

10/09/03 1 JET (Joint Engineering Team)  The JET coordinates networking activities, operations, and plans among federal agency networks (represented by DOD, DOE, NASA, and NSF) and Internet2  3 NGIXes (Next Generation Internet eXchanges)  NGIX-E: University of Maryland  NGIX-C: StarLight in Chicago  NGIX-W: NASA Ames  Work together on tough problems  e.g., links to Hawaii & Alaska 

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1 Agenda  Some History  US R&E Projects and Networks  US International R&E Connectivity  Pointers to More Info

10/09/03 1 US International R&E Connectivity  STARTAP  ITN  GTRN

10/09/03 1 STAR TAP  International Connection Point for Research and Education Networks at the Ameritech NAP in Chicago  Facilitates the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking  Hosts the 6 TAP - IPv6 Meet Point  Migrating to STAR LIGHT location at Northwestern University 

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1 ITN  International Transit Network  A collaboration between STAR TAP, CA*net3 and Abilene to support International Research Net Transit across North America  Joins together International Meet Points  STAR TAP, AMPATH, PNW GigaPoP, NYC PoPs  Transit provided to Research Nets from Europe, Asia, & Latin America

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1 GTRN Global Terabit Research Network  A collaborative effort between Asian, North American, and European R&E Networks  Spearheaded by Michael McRobbie & Steven Wallace of Indiana University  Effort to create a world wide R&E “network” via ITN like transit agreements 

10/09/03 1 Agenda  Some History  US R&E Projects and Networks  US International R&E Connectivity  Pointers to More Info

10/09/03 1 More Info and Maps  ARENA  Advanced Research and Education Network Atlas  A web accessible compendium of information about research and education (R&E) networks around the world  Map Making Tools  arena.internet2.edu  SLAC Networking Page  SLAC = Stafford Linear Accelerator  A really good set of Research Network Home Page Pointers and Maps  Warren Matthews  www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/about/networks

10/09/03 1 Some Web Links           arena.internet2.edu  www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/about/networks  Hobbe's Internet Timeline

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