1. Internet2 Tutorials
Everything You Wanted To Know About Internet2 and Where To Find It
Lee Perlis, Adam Csillag, Louis Biely
This is a general overview presentation about Internet2. Internet2 is a consortium, led by US universities, which is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today’s Internet in its infancy.
28 November 2001

2. Internet2 Brief History
Started in 1996 as a project with 34 universities.
Abilene launched – Feb. 1999
(Partnership w/ Qwest, Cisco, Nortel, and Indiana University (NOC))
Did you know?
The first person “in charge” of the Internet2 project was…?
Who managed the organizational structure of Internet2 at the beginning…?
The first Internet2 employee was…?
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3. Internet2 Membership 190 University Members 70+ Corporate (3 levels)
-Partners, Sponsors, Members
40+ Affiliate Members (2 types)
-Collaboration Sites (affiliates or corps w/ connections to Abilene)
*Only organizations in these three categories are considered “members” of Internet2.
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4. Internet2 Examples of Relationships
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5. Internet2 Membership and Abilene Structure
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6. Internet2 Membership and Abilene Dues $$$
University - $25,000/yr ex)Boston University
Corporate - $10,000/yr (under $1B revenue) ex) Akamai Technologies
Corporate - $25,000/yr (over $1B revenue) ex) Cisco Systems
Affiliate - $10,000/yr ($25,000 if collaboration site) ex) Merit – Affiliate National Institutes of Health - collabsite
Abilene
Participant - $20,000/yr
Connectors – (fee varies depending on connection speed)
SEGP – ($30,000 + {2x (#of congressman)}/yr
Sponsored Participants (no fee)
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7. Other Internet2 Relationships
National Science Foundation- (NSF)
International MoU Partners – no fee
Sponsored Education Group Participants (SEGP) - ($30,000 + {2x (#of congressman)}
Sponsored Participants – no fee
gigaPoPs – may or may not be members, a conduit for passing traffic over Abilene
Peer Networks- There are high performance networks other than Abilene.
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8. Important Internet2 URLs
Membership Database:
Client version
User Name: Your Initials
Password: updateme
Staff Only website
User Name: staff
Password: Abilene
Online calendar
*Please let us know what events you are attending
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9. Communication Pet Peeves
Internet2 vs. Internet 2 vs. I2
“The Internet2,” “The Internet2 Network,” “The Sequel”
What is UCAID?
“The Internet2 Project”
Will Internet2 replace the Internet?
When-to-use-the-dashes----
Logo Use
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10. Communication Pet Peeves Solutions
Use:
Internet2 - no space between ‘t’ and ‘2’
Never abbreviate with I2.
Internet2 backbone network – There are other high performance backbones, Abilene is not the only one. Others vBNS, NREN, DREN, ESnet.
Or just plain Internet2
UCAID – Parent organization of Internet2, Abilene, and the Quilt
Internet2 Project – Internet2 is no longer a project. It is a membership organization leading the next generation of advanced Internet development
End-to-End Performance Initiative, Peer-to-Peer
Logo Use – Keep it simple, unaltered, use ®, see styleguide for more info
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11. Logo Evolution
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12. Internet2 Styleguides and Info Kit
-Download Logos, Presentation Templates, Branding
Glossary ( - Definitions and Terms
Info Kit (
Info Sheets, Presentation Archives, Press Kits, Maps
News Releases (
- Latest Press Releases and Related Internet2 News Articles
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13. Other Stuff
Send outside inquires about Internet2 to
Mailing Lists
(Web mail, over 70 mailing lists.)
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14. Questions
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