1. Internet2: What It Is and Why You Care
Mary Kratz
Manager, Internet2 Health Sciences
RSNA November 2001

2. Agenda Internet2 as an Organization National High Performance Networks
Advanced Internet Applications
Internet2 Health Science Initiatives
Hot Topics
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3. Why Internet2? The Internet was not designed for:
Millions of users
Congestion
Multimedia
Real time interaction
But, only the Internet can:
Accommodate explosive growth
Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration
Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future
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4. Today’s Internet Doesn’t
Provide reliable end-to-end performance
Encourage cooperation on new capabilities
Allow testing of new technologies
Support development of revolutionary applications
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5. Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
This is the Internet2 mission.
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6. Internet2 Universities 187 Universities as of July 2001
This is the latest map of Internet2 universities. Each Internet2 university commits to providing the high performance networking on their own campus, connecting to a high-performance backbone network, and supporting advanced applications development on their own campus.
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7. Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative
NGI
University-led
Federal agency-led
Developing education and research driven applications
Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications
Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure
Funding research testbeds and agency research networks
Internet2 works closely with the federal agencies involved in the Next Generation Internet initiative.
Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications
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8. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
AT&T
Cisco Systems
IBM
Intel Corporation
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
Marconi Communications
Microsoft
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
SBC Communications
Sprint Communications
WCI Cable
WorldCom
This is the latest list of Internet2 Corporate Partners. Corporate partners have committed to providing over US$1million in support of collaborations with Internet2 universities.
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9. Internet2 International Partners http://www. internet2
This is the latest map of Internet2 universities. Each Internet2 university commits to providing the high performance networking on their own campus, connecting to a high-performance backbone network, and supporting advanced applications development on their own campus.
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10. National High Performance Networks
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11. Abilene Network
-Qwest
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13. Download of “The Matrix” DVD (Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
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14. Advanced Application Attributes
Interactive research collaboration and instruction
Real-time access to remote resources
Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of the above
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15. Advanced Applications
Distributed computation
Virtual laboratories
Digital libraries
Distributed learning
Digital video
Tele-immersion
All of the above in combination
Advanced applications com in many flavors, and those flavors can be combined. Advanced applications share the characteristic that they require advanced network capabilities to work—they either don’t work at all, or won’t work well on today’s Internet.
Enabling advanced applications is at the heart of Internet2.
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16. Grid Projects NEESGrid GriPhyN Infrastructure www.neesgrid.org
Infrastructure
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17. The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup
includes clinical practice,
medical and related biological
research, education, and
medical awareness
in the Public.
Enigma Machine and Bombe
Armed forces have always been dependent on communications. During World War II, the German Army and Navy tried to keep their communications secret by using encryption devices called Enigma machines. These sophisticated coding devices could generate over 1 trillion different coding patterns. The Germans believed they were too sophisticated for Allied forces to break them. But in one of the best-kept secrets of the war, first the Poles, and later the British and Americans succeeded in deciphering messages. The wooden device in the foreground is a 4 rotor German Enigma machine, used for encoding. The large machine in the background is a "Bombe," used for breaking the code. Working out the details of codebreaking machines was one of the developments that fostered electronic computers.
Smithsonian Photo by Laurie Minor-Penland.

18. With an Emphasis On: Medical applications on the Internet.
Development of application tools to take advantage of Internet2 advanced network services.
Leverage and influence Internet2 resources to apply solutions to the medical domain.
Inform the medical community of these activities.
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19. Goals and Objectives
Focus on research partnerships for advanced applications
Enhance collaboration and information sharing
Collaboratories
Training Workshops
Development of demonstrations and tools
Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability
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20. Roadmap Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet
National Research Council Report
Current and future Internet
Released 24 February 2000
National Academy Press
ISBN
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21. Health Science Working Groups
Middleware
Security – HIPAA Guidelines
Distance Medical Education
Veterinary Medical
End to End Performance
Visible Human Project Collaboratory
Biomedical Informatics Research Network
Open Source
Electronic Health Record Collaboratory
Clinical Trials Research Network
Access Grid for Health Sciences
Virtual Tumor Boards
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22. Challenges to Health Sciences
"The medical research revolution is happening! 
90% of data collected today will never be seen by a human eye. 
This is everyone's problem.
We must manage a growing amount of data to secure knowledge for the future." - Michael Marron, NIH
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23. Hot Topics Network of the Future Middleware
Computational Science as an interdisciplinary field
Optical Transport Technology matures
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Important distinction: transport vs. switching
Transcontinental Conduits
Middleware
NSF funded integration role
Global Grid Forum (
Medical Middleware
End to End Performance Initiative
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24. More Internet2 Information
On the Web
For more information about Internet2, please see these web sites, or contact directly by .
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