1. Internet2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher Education
Greg Wood Director of Communications

2. Internet2 Project Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Transfer capability to the global production Internet

3. Commercialization Privatization Research and Development Partnerships
21st Century
Interoperable
Networking
High Performance
SprintLink
Research &Education
MCI/Worldcom
US Govt
Networks
Networks
ANS
ARPAnet
Active
NSFNET
gigabit
Nets
testbeds
Broadband Wireless
Abilene, vBNS
Quality of Service
Advanced US Govt Networks
(QoS)
Research and
Development
Partnerships
Source: Ivan Moura Campos

4. Current Internet2 Priorities
Identify and develop first phase applications
Establish nationwide high performance end-to-end connectivity
Facilitate middleware implementation
Support network research
Build international collaboration opportunities

5. Internet2 Universities 133 as of September 1998
University of Puerto Rico not shown

6. Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services, Inc.
AT&T
Cabletron Systems
Cisco Systems
FORE
IBM
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
StarBurst Communications

7. Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South
Packet Engines
SBC Technology Resources
StorageTek
Torrent Technologies

8. Internet2 Corporate Members
Alcatel Telecom
Ameritech
Apple Computers
AppliedTheory
Bell Atlantic
Bellcore
British Telecom
Deutsche Telekom
GTE Internetworking
Hitachi
IXC Communications
KDD
Nexabit Networks
Nokia Research Center
Novell
Pacific Bell
RR Donnelley
Siemens
Sprint
StorageTek
Sun Microsystems
Sylvan Learning
Telebeam
Williams Communications

9. Advanced Internet Benefits
Richer content through higher bandwidth
Video, audio
Virtual reality
Dynamic, not static
More interactivity via minimal delay
Reliable content delivery through quality of service (QoS) model

10. Internet2 Applications
Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of:
Research
Teaching
Learning
Require advanced networking

11. Many Disciplines and Contexts
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration …
Instruction
Collaboration
Streaming video
Distributed computation
Data mining
Virtual reality
Digital libraries …
The first column shows that Internet2 applications can be used in various academic disciplines. The second column highlights the different functions of advanced applications...

12. Application Attributes
Interactive research collaboration and instruction
Real-time access to remote scientific instruments
Here are pictures of various applications aready in use:
1) the Upper Atmosphere research Collaboratory (UARC) developed at the University of Michigan--allows researchers access to data from instruments in Greenland w/o having to travel there, and allows them to discuss and interact in real time. This applications allows access to broader audience, including the second-order affect of enabling graduate students (who would never have been able to go to Greenland) to look in on research.
2&3) Pictures of a the output from a scanning electron microscope--allows access to expenisive, specialized equipment by students--allows them to control in the microscope and see the output as if they were in the same room
--These both require advanced network capabilities to work--either don’t work, or won’t work well on today’s internet.
Images courtesy of the
University of Michigan

13. Attributes, cont.
Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of the above
Move mouse over the top and bottom images to show animations of:
1) Cheasapeake Bay visualization--combines and visualizes huge amounts of data from a variety of sources--allow data to be more than just numbers
2&3)
Images courtesy of Old Dominion University
and Univ of Illinois-Chicago

14. Middleware Challenges
Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable
Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a pre-commercial production environment
Examples:
Quality of Service
Multicast
Audio/Video Frameworks

15. Recent Initiatives Qbone I2-DVN I2-DSI DoGBone
Quality of service testbed
I2-DVN
Internet2 Digital Video Network
I2-DSI
Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure
DoGBone
Digital video over GigaPoP

16. Applications and Engineering
Motivate
Enables
Engineering

17. Engineering Objectives
Deploy a production network to support applications R&D
Establish quality of service (QoS)
Support native multicast
Establish gigaPoPs as effective service points

18. Network Architecture I2 Interconnect Cloud
GigaPoP
One
GigaPoP
Two
I2 Interconnect
Cloud
GigaPoP
Three
GigaPoP
Four
“Gigabit capacity point of presence” an
aggregation point for regional connectivity

19. GigaPoPs, cont. I2 Interconnect Cloud Commodity Internet Connections
University A
GigaPoP
One
Commodity
Internet
Connections
Regional Network
University B
University C

20. GigaPoPs Variety of services and styles
Technical and organizational differences
Mixture of technologies
Some things must be the same
IP as common bearer service
Inter-gigaPoP routing policy and design
Measurement
Trouble tickets among network operations centers

21. Internet2 GigaPoPs

22. Interconnect vBNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service)
NSF and MCI cooperative agreement
Operating at OC12
Peers with other federally sponsored networks
Abilene Network (January 1999)

23. Abilene Project Goals Support Internet2 applications development
Demonstrate next generation networking capabilities
Create facilities for network research

24. Abilene Project Participants
UCAID
Qwest Communications
Cisco Systems
Nortel Networks
Indiana University

25. Abilene Project Timeline
April 1998: Project Announced
September 1998: Prototype demonstration
January 1999: Operations begin

26. Abilene Network January 1999
Seattle
Cleveland
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Abilene Router Node
Abilene Access Node
Operational January 1999
Planned 1999
Houston

27. Abilene Characteristics
2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192)
Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3)
IP over Sonet technology
Access PoPs very close to university gigaPoPs

28. For more information... On the Web Internet2 Applications
Internet2 Applications
apps.internet2.edu
Abilene Project
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