Internet2 Focus Areas

1. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Applications • Partnerships

2. Internet2 Network Infrastructure • Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) to 10 Gbps (OC192) capacity today • GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points • Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop

3. Download of “The Matrix” DVD(Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)

4. Internet2Backbone Networks Internet2 Network Architecture GigaPoP One GigaPoP Two GigaPoP Four GigaPoP Three

5. University A Internet2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoP One Regional Network Commercial Internet Connections University C University B Network Architecture

6. Abilene NetworkCore Map, March 2003

7. Abilene Network Logical Map

8. Internet2 GigaPoPs31 as of March 2003

9. Abilene International PeeringMarch 2003 09 January 2002 Sacramento Washington Los Angeles Last updated: 14 January 2003 Abilene International Peering(January 2003) STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC†, CA*net, CERN, CERNET/CSTNET/NSFCNET, NAUKAnet, GEMnet, HARNET, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SingAREN, TANET2 Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC†, CA*net, TANET2 NYCM GEANT*, HEANET, NORDUnet, SINET, SURFnet SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE(v6) LOSA UNINET OC12 AMPATH ANSP, REUNA2, RNP2, RETINA (REACCIUN-2) San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI • * ARNES, ACONET, BELNET, CARNET, CERN, CESnet, CYNET, DFN, EENet, GARR, GRNET, HEANET, IUCC, JANET, LATNET, LITNET, NORDUNET, RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCST, RedIRIS, SANET, SURFNET • † WIDE/JGN, IMnet, CERNet/CSTnet,/NSFCNET, KOREN/KREONET2, SingAREN, TANET2, ThaiSARN

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

11. Middlewarehttp://middleware.internet2.edu/ • A layer of software between the network and the applications • Authentication • Identification • Authorization • Directories • Security

12. Internet2 Middleware Initiative • Internet2 community has unique needs and capabilities • Middleware Architecture Committee for Education • Early Harvest and Early Adopters • Internet2 PKI Labs • Shibboleth (authentication) • Computational middleware (Beta Grid) • Medical middleware • Directories

13. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Applications • Partnerships

14. Engineering Working Groups • IPv6 • Measurement • Multicast • Quality of Service • Routing • Security • Topology

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

16. Advanced Applicationshttp://apps.internet2.edu/ • Distributed computation • Virtual laboratories • Digital libraries • Distributed learning • Digital video • Tele-immersion • All of the above in combination

17. High Performance Video Delivery with Logistical Networking

18. Real-time access to remote instruments University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center3-D Brain Mapping Virtual Laboratories

19. Real-time access to remote instruments University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistributed nanoManipulator Virtual Laboratories

20. Mauna Kea Observatories AURA University of Hawaii Virtual Laboratories

21. Space Physics & Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC) University of Michigan NSF Virtual Laboratories

22. Shared virtual reality University of Illinois at ChicagoVirtual Temporal Bone Tele-immersion Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-Chicago

23. Tele-cubicles and the CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

24. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Middleware • Engineering • Advanced Applications • Partnerships

25. Internet2 Partnerships • Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy • Industry • Government • International

26. Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative Internet2 NGI Federal agency-led University-led Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Developing education and research driven applications Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications

27. National Networks • Internet2 Backbone Networks • Abilene • vBNS • Federal Backbone Networks • DREN • ESnet • NREN • SuperNet • …

28. Technology Transfer Conduits • Collaborating on advanced applications • Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols • Establishing expertise and human capital • Large-scale proof of concept

29. International Partnerships • Ensure global interoperability • ofthe next generation of Internet technologies and applications • Enable global collaboration • in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally

30. International Partners • Build effective partnerships in other countries with organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies • Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding

31. International MoU Map

32. Unanticipated Innovation • Lesson of the Web • Network growth and value are non-linear • New technologies enable qualitatively different uses • Users become innovators

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

34. www.internet2.edu