1. What is Internet2? Ted Hanss, Internet2 5 March 2003 www.internet2.edu

2. Topics  Organization  Applications  Middleware  Network Infrastructure  International Efforts

3. Organization

4. Internet2 Mission Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s internet.

5. Development Cycle Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Today’s Internet Internet2 Source: Ivan Moura Campos

6. Internet2 Universities 206 universities 65 corporations 41 non-profits and gov’t labs

7. SEGPs Sponsored Educational Group Participants

8. Internet2 Focus Areas  Advanced Network Infrastructure  Middleware  Engineering  Advanced Applications  Partnerships

9. Abilene Network Core Map, March 2004

10. Internet2 Focus Areas  Advanced Network Infrastructure  Middleware  Engineering  Advanced Applications  Partnerships

11. Middleware  A layer of software between the network and the applications Authentication Identification Authorization Directories Security

12. Internet2 Focus Areas  Advanced Network Infrastructure  Middleware  Engineering  Advanced Applications  Partnerships

13. Engineering Initiatives  IPv6  Measurement (End-to-End Performance)  Multicast  Quality of service  Routing  Security  Topology

14. Internet2 Focus Areas  Advanced Network Infrastructure  Middleware  Engineering  Advanced Applications  Partnerships

15. Internet2 Focus Areas  Advanced Network Infrastructure  Middleware  Engineering  Advanced Applications  Partnerships

16. International Partnerships Current MoU Partners Developing Partnerships Related Efforts in Formation

17. www.internet2.edu

18. How Internet2 is Making a Difference Ted Hanss, Internet2 5 March 2003 www.internet2.edu

19. Internet2 Applications  What are “Internet2 applications”?  They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning  They require advanced networks to work

20. Different Disciplines/Contexts  Sciences  Arts  Humanities  Health care  Business/Law  Administration  …  Library  Classroom  Clinic  Office  Laboratory  Dorm room  …

21. Application Attributes  Interactive collaboration  Real-time access to remote resources

22. Attributes, cont.  Large-scale, multi- site computation and data mining  Shared virtual reality  Any combination of the above

23. Digital Video

24. Digital Video Applications  Up to broadcast quality videoconferencing  Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content  HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …

25. Access Grid www.accessgrid.org Source: Argonne National Laboratory

26. Access Grid

27. Music Instruction Music instruction – University of Oklahoma

28. Remote Scanning Electron Microscope The University of Michigan

29. Philips XL30

31. Distributed nanoManipulator University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

33. Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory University of Michigan

36. Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment University of California, San Diego San Diego Supercomputer Center

38. Shared Virtual Environment Ohio State University Ohio Supercomputer Center

39. Shared Virtual Environment

40. Grid Projects

41. What is the Grid?  Global resources available to communities of researchers  The protocols, services, and applications that enable new forms of collaboration

42. Grid Resources Workstations Instruments Libraries Data sets People

43. Examples  Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Collaboration environment for earthquake researchers (e.g., structural engineers, geotechnical and tsunami scientists)  Grid Physics Network Petabyte scale environment for data- intensive applications (Large Hadron Collider, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory)

44. Grid Projects  NEESGrid www.neesgrid.org  GriPhyN www.griphyn.org  S/W infrastructure www.gridforum.org  Research: Sensornets Networked nanotechnology

45. Internet2 Commons

46. The Internet2 Commons  Encouraging and supporting large-scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning

47. More Info...  www.internet2.edu  ted@internet2.edu  apps.internet2.edu/talks/  Ted Hanss Internet2 3025 Boardwalk Suite 100 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 +1.734.913.4256

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