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The Future of the Internet and Internet2

The Future of the Internet and Internet2. IEC Executive Forum @SUPERCOMM 2001 Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID. June 5, 2001. What Is Internet2?.

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The Future of the Internet and Internet2

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  1. The Future of the Internetand Internet2 IEC Executive Forum@SUPERCOMM 2001 Douglas E. Van Houweling President and CEO, UCAID June 5, 2001

  2. What Is Internet2? A project of the university community working with our corporate colleagues and government to close the gap between the potential and reality of the Internet

  3. Tomorrow’s Internet • Billions of users and devices • Convergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV) • Support mission-critical applications • Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computers • New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

  4. Why Internet2? • The Internet was not designed for: • More than 100 million users • Congestion • Multimedia • Real time interaction • But, only the Internet can: • Accommodate explosive growth • Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration • Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future

  5. Why University Leadership? • The Internet originated in the higher education & research community • Stanford -- the Internet protocols • NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet • CERN -- The WWW protocols • University of Illinois -- The Web browser • Universities require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop new Internet capabilities

  6. Internet2 Mission • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

  7. Status • Current members: • 187 U.S. universities • 70+ for-profit corporations • 40+ not-for-profit organizations • In partnership with: • U.S. government • 30+ national networking organizations of other countries

  8. Internet2 Universities187 Universities as of June 2001

  9. 3Com Advanced Network & Services Alcatel AT&T Cisco Systems IBM ITC^Deltacom Lucent Technologies Marconi Communications Microsoft Nortel Networks Qwest Communications SBC Communications Spirent Communications WCI Cable WorldCom Internet2 Corporate Partners

  10. Internet2 Accomplishments • A high-performance network for members • Backbones – vBNS (NSF, Worldcom), Abilene (Qwest, Nortel, Cisco, Indiana University) • Regional connectivity via gigaPoPs • Campus & enterprise connectivity by members • 2.4 gigabit capacity, tuned for >100 megabit streams • Over 190 participating sites nationwide • Linked to similar networks worldwide

  11. Internet2 Accomplishments • Member development and deployment of applications requiring high performance networking • Multimedia • Remote operation • Collaboration • Large scale computation & data mining • Virtual reality • Peer to peer computing

  12. What We Have Learned • High performance infrastructure is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient of high performance network capability. • Middleware is required to scale up advanced network capabilities and applications. • The Internet marketplace is slow to deploy advanced capabilities. • The biggest challenges are organizational, not technological

  13. What We Are Doing • End-to-End Performance Initiative • Measurement, diagnostic tools, best practices, multicast, Quality of Service • Internet2 Middleware Project • Authentication, shared directories, PKI, security • Expanded Access • Sponsored by members • K-20 education, libraries, museums, startup companies

  14. Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization ANS/Core PSI MichNet Today’s Internet AOL UUNet SURANet InternetMCI NYSERNet Intelligent Networks GigaBit Testbeds ARPANet NSFNet NGI MBone Internet2 Research and Partnerships Development

  15. More Internet2 Information • On the Web • www.internet2.edu • www.internet2.edu/html/lists.html • Email • info@internet2.edu

  16. www.internet2.edu

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