Internet2: Advancing Research & Education Networks Worldwide

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2. Internet2: an Overview Heather Boyles Director, International Relations heather@internet2.edu Second ACCESS NOVA FORUMMay 28, 2002

3. Outline • Background: why and who? • Focus areas and activities: what? • International partnerships: how? • Your questions……..

4. Internet2 Mission and Goals • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. • Enable new generation of applications • Create leading edge R&E network capability • Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

5. Internet2 Members +200 universities (yellow dots)

6. Additional Membership • Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members • Over 40 Affiliate Members • Government Research Agencies • Internet2/U.S. Government: • separate but interdependent • Internet2 is led by higher education • Focused on research and education needs • Internet2 International Partner Program

7. How Internet2 works • Universities commit: • Engineering lead: connect university to rest of Internet2 community, deploy new technologies • Applications lead: support apps development on campus • Working groups: • Of expert/interested individuals within community • Chaired by volunteer (sometimes by staff) • Staff support • Projects: Abilene, Shibboleth • Internet2 Staff • Focus Areas

8. Internet2 Focus Areas • Advanced Applications • Middleware • Engineering • End to End Performance • Advanced Network Infrastructure • Partnerships

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

10. Middleware } Applications • Authentication, Identification, Authorization, Directories, Security Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware) Advanced Physical Network Infrastructure

11. Middleware

12. Internet2 Middleware Initiative • Focus on core middleware as infrastructure • Interoperability • 190 universities will never buy the same software • Getting stuff implemented • Best practices • Integrate across applications • Discourage ‘islands’ of middleware infrastructure • E.g. core middleware just for this particular grid project • Enable community to share resources • Grid, remote instruments, shared classes

13. I2MI core middleware activities • Identifiers • Early Adopters - survey/docs about how campuses are assigning and relating identifiers • Authentication • WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on): share expertise, code • Directories • DoDHE: Dir. of Directories for HE: inter-institutional directory searching, using eduPerson and LDAP Recipe • eduPerson: an LDAP object class that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education • LDAP Recipe: promote common design • Authorization • Certificates and PKI • Internet2 PKI Labs

14. Internet2 Backbones(2.4 Gbps) Typical Internet2 University Network Connection University Campus University Campus 155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps Department 155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps 100 Mbps Regional Network622 Mbps-2.4 Gbps Lab or Classroom 155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps University Campus

15. 09 March 2002 Sacramento Washington Los Angeles Abilene International Peering STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, FASTnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, RNP2, SURFnet, SingAREN, TAnet2 Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC, CA*net3, TANET2 NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, GEANT*, HEANET, JANET, NORDUnet SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE LOSA UNINET OC3-OC12 San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI AMPATH REUNA, RNP2 RETINA, ANSP, (CRNet2) El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI * ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCST2, RedIRIS

16. Abilene ITN service • Transit to vBNS and non-US peers of Abilene • Example: • Peer with Abilene • Send/receive traffic to all Abilene participants, plus: • vBNS participants • All non-US network peers of Abilene (over 25)

17. Networks reachable via Abilene – by country Europe-Middle East Asia-Pacific Americas Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom *CERN Australia China Hong Kong Japan Korea Singapore Taiwan Thailand Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States

18. Internet2 International Goals • Ensure global interoperability • of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications • Enable global collaboration • in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally

19. Asia to US connectivity(April 2002)

20. Europe to US connectivity (April 2002)

21. Americas Connectivity(April 2002)

22. Global Terabit Research Network (GTRN)http://www.gtrn.net/ • Goal: cooperatively, cohesively manage intercontinental infrastructure • International partnership: Europe NREN Consortium, North America (through Internet2-U.S. and CANARIE-Canada), and Asia Pacific

23. Resources • http://www.internet2.edu/international • ARENA (http://arena.internet2.edu) • Interactive atlas with links to research and education networks around the globe • NOC and technical contact information and who connects to which network • Which networks are connected together (peer) • Pathfinder tool draws a path and shows bandwidth from one institution to another • Major efforts underway to complete project and provide useful toolshttp://www.internet2.edu

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25. Questions? • info@internet2.edu • International: heather@internet2.edu apreston@internet2.edu • Thank You!

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