1. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 1 JISC / UKERNA Initiative Internet2 Collaborative Programme in the UK Rina Samani

2. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 2 Contents Page JISC / UKERNA / JANET/SuperJANET The Current Network – SuperJANET III The Next Network - SuperJANET4 The SuperJANET4 Development Programme Internet2 / JANET partnership Internet2 Collaborative Programme

3. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 3 Who & What is ?

4. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 4 Current Network (SuperJANET III) Current Network – SuperJANET III Came into service – early 1990’s Backbone – 155 Mbit/s ATM

5. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 5 The Next Network (SuperJANET4) Technology: IP over SDH initially, then IP over DWDM (2001/2002) Backbone – 2.4 Gbit/s (2001) going upto 20 Gbit/s (2002) Provision of a National Testbed Network Cisco GSR routers will be deployed within the core and edge of the backbone

6. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 6 core PoP location backbone links access links Topology

7. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 7 SuperJANET4 Development Programme The aim of this programme is to underpin the development of SuperJANET4, evolving over the coming years to support the applications used by the community, which is served by the network.

8. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 8 JANET / Internet2 partnership MoU signed between UKERNA / JISC / Internet2 on 16 th February 1999 Connectivity between JANET and Abilene established in January 2000 Areas for collaboration seen

9. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 9 Connectivity between JANET & Abilene established JANET have presence in New York JANET have 4 * STM 1 links to the US By mid 2001 – 6 * STM 1 links to the US

10. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 10 Areas for Collaboration Middleware Distributed Storage & Digital Video General Application Development Technology Development e.g. IPv6, QoS, Multicast etc Specific Collaborations

11. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 11 Internet2 Collaborative Programme UK & US Universities collaborating on development projects UK have contributed £600K ($1 Million) towards this programme Internet2 (US) Involvement

12. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 12 Stages of the Programme Call for Expressions of Interest JISC Internet2 Open Event (UK) Project Selection

13. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 13 Stages of the Programme Call for Expressions of Interest JISC Internet2 Open Event (UK) Project Selection

14. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 14 Stages of the Programme Call for Expressions of Interest JISC Internet2 Open Event (UK) Project Selection

15. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 15 Internet2 Collaborative Projects Project NameUK InstitutionUS Partner(s) Investigate effectiveness of QoS Daresbury LabsSLAC DIRECTUniversity of Edinburgh Tracking Standards – Internet2 Middleware Committee VIDOSUniversity of Oxford Internet2 DVI Committee Collaboration in Tele- immersive Environments University College, London University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & MIT

16. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 16 Internet2 Collaborative Projects Project NameUK InstitutionUS Partner(s) M3i – Pricing NetworksUniversity College, London University of California, Berkeley, BT & HP Labs LDAP, X.509 & Middleware Leeds UniversityConsortium of Universities in the NorthWest of USA Bermuda2University of Southampton CAIRN, 6INIT, NASA, CRC, BT, Microsoft & QTPv6 Establishing a Global SuperComputer University of Manchester Pittsburgh SuperComputing Centre

17. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 17 Sources of Information JANET publications on the Internet2 Collaborative Programme: http://www.ja.net/development/internet2/ JISC publications: http://www.jisc.ac.uk Internet2 mailing list on Mailbase: Internet2@mailbase.ac.uk SuperJANET4: http://www.superjanet4.net

18. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 18 Contact Information For further information contact: –Rina Samani –Email: R.Samani@ukerna.ac.uk –Tel: +00 44 1235 822 260

19. October 2000 © The JNT Association 2000 19 Thank you & Questions