26 October 2015 Supporting advanced networking needs of the global research, teaching and learning community: National Research and Education Networks and global collaboration Heather Boyles Director, International Relations Internet2

Internet2 Yesterday and Today  Launched October US universities Formally incorporated as not-for-profit corporation September 1997 Abilene backbone network announced April 1998  Today 208 US universities; 60+ corporate members, 40+ affiliates, 45 international partners 2nd Generation Abilene backbone network; Internet2 Commons, Shibboleth, InCommon, NLR, QUILT, Arts & Humanities program, etc.

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26 October 2015 Internet2 international partnerships: an overview

Internet2: Partnerships  Partnerships are key to Internet2  International partners are of strategic importance to Internet2 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

International Partner Program  Build effective partnerships in other countries  With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies  Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities Collaborate on technology development and deployment Facilitate collaboration between members on applications  Engagement to: Establish leading, high-performance network infrastructures in support of science, teaching and learning Ensure global coordination and end-to-end performance in support of our communities

Current International Partners Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) CERNET/CSTNET/ NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC/UNINET (Thailand) NG-NZ (New Zealand) SingAREN (Singapore) TANet2 (Taiwan) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CEDIA (Ecuador) CLARA (Latin America & Caribbean) CUDI (Mexico) CNTI (Venezuela) CR2NET (Costa Rica) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) Qatar Foundation (Qatar) FCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET (Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) As of September 2004 Related partnerships APRU (Asia/Pacific) IEEAF

26 October 2015 A general overview of NRENs and international connectivity around the world

NRENs in general  The idea of national research (and education) networks (NRNs or NRENS) continues to be popular New NRENs in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East – Pakistan, New Zealand, Jordan  Many of these NRENs incorporate government research lab as well as university connectivity (and sometimes other education institutions)  Regional (continental-scale) backbone growth  Continuum from commercial Internet access, to reliable-leading-edge (production) to experimental to network research facilitating networks But locus of most effort on supporting the high-performance, leading-edge needs of high-end science (UK e-Science, US CyberInfrastructure) and other high-end research, education, clinical needs

A picture of where NRENs exist Related Efforts in Formation Current MoU Partners Developing Partnerships

International connectivity from/to the US  Internet2 backbone networks generally exist within the borders of US  Links between the US and other countries funded through various sources Outside the US: many of our partners procure and operate links from their country to the US US-funded: US NSF provides funding through IRNC (was HPIIS) program for some links –DOE provides some funding for CERN-procured and operated links to US Donations: IEEAF has garnered donations from Tyco Telecom of international links

How do Internet2 networks connect with these international links?  International exchange points around borders (including north and south borders of US) Peculiar challenge in US of connecting with multiple national-scale networks in US (Abilene, ESnet, NREN/NISN, DREN, NLR-based networks (e.g. HOPI), etc.)  Exchange points Pacific Wave exchange point (West Coast – Seattle/LA) (UTEP link to CUDI (El Paso – Ciudad Juarez)) AMPATH exchange point (Miami) Emerging: Atlantic Wave (East Coast – Miami/New York) MAN LAN (New York) Star Light (Chicago)  Some direction connections e.g. to Abilene core router (GEANT in Washington, DC)

Last updated: 21 September 2004 Abilene International Peering

In addition to physical network interconnectivity  Moving toward ‘interconnecting’ and ‘peering’ these infrastructures too Performance Measurement and Monitoring Infrastructures –NLANR/MNA measurement infrastructure Wide international deployment –Internet2 piPEs environment Joint development work of Internet2 and GEANT2 PMP deployments in APAN, Brazil, Europe, US –Abilene considering adding measurement infrastructure to international Interconnection Agreements Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures –Cotswolds meeting –Australia, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States (also CERN) attending –e.g. InCommon trust federation in US (hosted by Internet2), SWITCHAAI, UK legacy ATHENS, planned Shibboleth-based federation, etc.

Performance Measurement: Current piPEs Deployment

National Federations for Inter-institutional authentication and authorization  National federations of institutions Agreeing to interconnect their respective authentication and authorization schemes To support inter-institutional collaboration  Interconnect these national federations ‘League of Federations’ To support inter-institutional collaborations internationally E.g. virtual organizations of researchers – international ‘grid’ projects E.g. authenticated video-conferencing E.g. access to performance/measurement data for network engineers across domains AAI

eVLBI - Very Long Baseline Interferometry  Astronomers collect data about a star from many different earth based antennae and send the data to a specialized computer for analysis on a 24x7 basis.  VLBI is not as concerned with data loss as they are with long term stability.  The end goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20 antennae that are located around the globe. Interesting: eVLBI sites in US and Europe recently tracked and confirmed landing of Huygens probe to one of Saturns’ moons, Titan

Astronomy- Arecibo  Arecibo is the largest single-dish radio-telescope in the world  Can gather data at 40 MBytes per second  Advanced network connection allows: Remote observation Real-time control Ability to provide researchers access to over 800 TBytes of data collected by the antenna

HENP  High Energy and Nuclear Physics  Physicists has traditionally been one of the “power users” of all networks  Generating Terabytes (1x1012) of data per experiment from the CERN lab in Switzerland  They are working on bulk data transfers that are extremely resistant to data loss  VRVS, a video conferencing tool, was developed by the physics community

Distance Education/Learning Tele-presence environments Real-time interactions with very high quality audio and MPEG-2 video as needed “meetings” connecting faculty and staff across the ocean Music instruction Language/cultural Exchanges Learning foreign languages through cultural exchanges and problem based experiential learning

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