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Advancing Education Through Internet2: A Vision for the 21st Century

Explore the transformative impact of Internet2 on higher education, focusing on advanced networking development and innovative applications in the digital era. Learn about the history, goals, projects, and current priorities of Internet2 and its member universities.

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Advancing Education Through Internet2: A Vision for the 21st Century

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  1. UCAID/Internet2A Presentation to the Kellogg Commission Michael M. Roberts 23 June 1998 Washington, D.C.

  2. UCAID Member Universities127 Members as of May 1998 GHW

  3. UCAID Mission • Provide leadership and direction for advanced networking development within the university community

  4. 21st Century World of Learning and Information • Computer mediated networks are ubiquitous • Information appliances are smart and cheap • Every client a server • Glut rather than scarcity • Distributed, disaggregated, disintermediated • Integrative

  5. New Millennium Challenges to Higher Education • Historic campus model of library/scholar/student is changing • Internet mediated learning competing with classroom learning • Students can be anyone, anywhere, anytime • Traditional colleges & univ face redefined education environment

  6. History of Internet2 • September 1995: Monterey Futures Conference • August 1996: Cheyenne Mountain Workshop • October 1996: Internet2 Project formed • January 1997: First Internet2 Member Meeting • October 1997: UCAID formed • April 1998: Abilene Project Announced

  7. UCAID Organization

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

  9. Internet2 Applications • Interactive, distance-independent learning • Interactive, network-based collaboration • Real-time modeling and simulation • Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing • Shared virtual reality - “teleimmersion”

  10. Abilene Project • Provide advanced network testbed • Support Internet2 applications development • Demonstrate next generation operational and quality of service capabilities • Create facilities for network research • Anticipate end of vBNS program

  11. UCAID Current Priorities • Establish backbone connectivity to all member sites • Facilitate cooperation and middleware implementation • Coordinate with the computer science community • Complete staff recruitment • Identify & develop 1st phase applications • Strengthen Board, staff, member & sponsor relationships

  12. UCAID Member Universities127 Members as of May 1998 GHW

  13. Commercialization Privatization 21st Century Interoperable Networking High Performance SprintLink Research &Education InternetMCI Networks Agency Networks ANS ARPAnet NSFNET Active gigabit Nets testbeds wireless Internet2, Abilene, vBNS WDM ESNET, NREN, DREN Quality of Service (QoS) Research and Development Partnerships

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