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Internet2 and NPS

Internet2 and NPS. Don Brutzman, Tom Halwachs, Christine Cermak Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California. 15 February 2002. Topics. Description Needs and opportunities Benefits, costs, membership Interested faculty and initial projects Pipes and topologies Strategic planning

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Internet2 and NPS

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  1. Internet2 and NPS Don Brutzman, Tom Halwachs, Christine Cermak Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California 15 February 2002

  2. Topics • Description • Needs and opportunities • Benefits, costs, membership • Interested faculty and initial projects • Pipes and topologies • Strategic planning • Next steps

  3. Internet2 • “Internet2, led by over 190 U.S. universities working in partnership with industry and government, is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet.” • http://www.internet2.org

  4. Internet2 • Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in its infancy. • Primary goals: • Create a leading edge network capability for the national research community • Enable revolutionary Internet applications • Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community

  5. Needs and opportunities • NPS researchers need to be affiliated with Internet2 for credible network research • Partnerships are necessary for state-of-art exposure and grounded research • NPS membership is valuable! • Financial and strategic investment

  6. Membership benefits • Five member activity areas • Applications, Middleware, Advanced Networking, Engineering, Partnerships • Regular meetings • Exposure to funded research opportunities • http://www.internet2.edu/html/faqs.html

  7. Membership costs • $25K annual membership fee for our institution • Code 05 will provide travel funding to attend Internet2, DREN meetings • Faculty, staff, students • Results reported back

  8. Membership steps and prerequisites • Letter of request and $25K annual dues • NPS must show commitment to strategic investment, as an institution • $500K annual expenditure in related technologies • We already do that! • I2 does not want dilettante/undecisive partners • I2 wants commitment to show high-performance technology actually works for partner institutions • Builds national business case for Internet2 progress This means strategic planning for NPS information technology.

  9. NPS strategic planning, I2/IT • NPS Information Technology Task Force • Charter: develop NPS IT strategic plan • Forum for discussion and peer review • Frequent meetings (2/month) • Intranet dissemination of inputs, discussion and recommendations • Regular reports to faculty council, SSPC, SSPG • Considering best mechanisms for input, outreach • NPS faculty, staff, students, tenant commands

  10. Internet2 initial endeavors:NPS faculty and interests • Don Brutzman, MOVES/IS • Scalable multicast, agent-based virtual environments • Alex Bordetsky, IS • Wireless/satellite/etc. networking for relief operations • Rex Buddenberg, IS • Internet to Sea: connecting to fleet, Net Centric NPS • Geoffrey Xie, CS • Intelligent Network Management • Cynthia Irvine, ISI/CS • Collaborative technologies, digital infrastructure security

  11. Forum • Open membership • Monthly meetings, minutes online • Mailing list internet2@nps.navy.mil • External web page, also intranet site if needed • Possible year 1 goal: produce video overview

  12. Topologies • Joining Internet2 not about pipes, per se • Our primary connection remains DREN, 45 Mbps • Defense Research and Engineering Network • We are actually “plugging” into national discussion on networking research and development • Essential for cross-network testing, experiments • Will exercise existing peering relationship • Internet2 backbone Abilene  DREN • http://www.ucaid.edu/abilenehttp://www.hpcmo.hpc.mil/Htdocs/DREN • NPS link upgrades likely to follow • Will explore further/faster connections (UC, etc.)

  13. Abilene connection map

  14. Abilene traffic map

  15. DREN connection map

  16. Upcoming initiatives for consideration by IT Task Force • Campus wireless networking • Improved security, draft policy, plan, results • Joe Roth LT USN thesis work • wireless@nps.navy.milhttp://intra.nps.navy.mil/wireless • Possible DoD exemplar, Internet2 aspects • Firewall/security protection, issues • nps.edu and nps.navy.mil domains • Need administrative, routing flexibility for research • Several NPS, NMCI needs and capability matches to be explored • Factor: NPS information infrastructure support • Our Internet2 efforts will proceed as supportable by campus

  17. IT strategic planning and potential of Internet2 for NPS • Not merely the minimum scope, e.g. Internet2 initiatives are compatible with campus IT plans • Expectation: Internet2-related activity is fundamentally important driver for campus IT development • Position NPS as leader • “big networking” connected to actual users • for Navy, DoD and (perhaps) government

  18. Internet2 outreach video • [We viewed 5-minute promo video] • Wow! • Great vision linking strategic execution to technology drivers • Why doesn’t NPS make one of these?

  19. Next steps • Administrative • Letter and dues • Quicklook of institutional commitment • Intent to perform cross-campus strategic planning and assessment • Strategic • NPS decision-making process • Strategic planning process

  20. Comments and questions? • Discussion: $25K fee and other steps • Discussion: opportunity costs/gains regarding membership • Establish reasonable expectations on campus about what Internet2 entails • Investigate educational component • Distance learning • Other areas?

  21. Comments and questions 2 • Affiliate membership? • Different membership class, not applicable to NPS • “Affiliate membership in Internet2 is open to not-for-profit corporations organized and operated for research or education purposes that do not qualify for Regular or Corporate membership, but wish to participate in Internet2.” • http://www.internet2.edu/members/html/affiliaterequirements.html • Can NPS maintain annual strategic/research investments related to Internet2 above $500K? • Yes, easily

  22. Comments and questions 3 • Resourcing: variety of impacts and implications will be reported back • Fundamental part of campus strategic planning • Needs to be normalized and on a regular annual schedule for review, requests, repeated execution • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) relationships? • Who is working on this? • Right time of year to pay? • No Internet2 preferences or requirements • Followup with Megan Reilly

  23. Comments and questions 4 • NPS funding model issues • Direct funding/indirect funding/incentives for annual costs related to Internet2 [Barry Frew] • Possible downsides • Wideband issues? [Barry Frew] • No others noted • “Report-back” follow-ups to SSPC/SSPG • Internet2 application-area meeting (if happens first) • Internet2 member meeting May 6-8, Arlington http://www.internet2.edu/activities/html/spring_02.html

  24. Contact Don Brutzman brutzman@nps.navy.mil http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman Code UW/Br, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California 93943-5000 USA 831.656.2149 voice 831.656.3679 fax

  25. Contact Tom Halwachs THalwachs@monterey.nps.navy.mil Code 05, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California 93943-5000 USA 831.656.2392 voice

  26. Contact Christine Cermak cmcermak@nps.navy.mil Code 01C, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California 93943-5000 USA 831.656.2391 voice

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