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In Search of the Killer App: The Internet2 Experience Douglas E. Van Houweling President & CEO 24 April 2003 Disruptive Innovation, Higher Education, IBM & the Internet NSFNet -> Internet2 NSFNet/Merit partnership – NSF, IBM, MCI, Michigan
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In Search of the Killer App:The Internet2 Experience Douglas E. Van Houweling President & CEO 24 April 2003
Disruptive Innovation, Higher Education, IBM & the Internet • NSFNet -> Internet2 • NSFNet/Merit partnership – NSF, IBM, MCI, Michigan • IBM Research designed and built the core routers – by 1993 had the best technology in the world • IBM also sold a proprietary network – SNA • November 1993 Westfields meeting • Introduce Lou Gerstner to the higher ed community • NSFNet panel • IBM decision not to productize Internet routers • Cisco did not have a backbone networking product
Internet2 Mission • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
Internet2 Goals • Enable new generation of applications • Re-create leading edge R&E network capability • Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
Internet2 Partnerships • Internet2 is recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy • Industry • Government • International
Additional Participation • Over 50 Internet2 Corporate Members • Over 30 Affiliate Members • Over 30 International Partners
Internet Development Spiral Commercialization Privatization Today’sInternet Internet2 Research and Development Partnerships Source: Ivan Moura Campos
Download of “The Matrix” DVD(Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)
What is Advanced Broadband? • Multi-megabit in both directions • Well beyond today’s 300 kbps • Always on and always available • Home, work, traveling • Services rich • Multicast, IPv6, measurement & monitoring
Advanced Broadband in Action • Education • Large Companies • Small and Medium Enterprises • The Home
Education: Media Distribution • University-owned PBS stations working on new models of interconnection University of Washington Washington State University
Education: Media Distribution USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for the Digital Arts Super high definition video across Internet2 NTT, UIC, USC
Education: Collaboration • Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory • “Better than being there” • Enriches education of next generation of scientists
Education: K-20 • Neptune: A planned “ocean observatory”
Education: Health Care Simulations • California Orthopaedic Research Network • Expanding nationally and internationally • Focused on training
Real-time Collaboration • You can be everywhere no matter how large or small your enterprise Duke University
Corporations: Data Mining Knowledge- bases • Getting data from disparate sources • Real-time and interactive • Increase the information flow from customer experiences Instruments Grid Computing Data sets People
Corporations: Strategic Advantage • Increased productivity • Real-time analysis, discovery, dialogue • Enabling new business processes • Not just “doing things faster” • Strengthen partnerships with universities • Leverage and scale global capacity
Challenges: Infrastructures & Performance 100 mbps Harvard • The need for infrastructure • End-to-End Performance --- realizing the benefit of the advanced infrastructure HBS (Boston) 1 gbps NoX GigaPoP 2.4 gbps Abilene NYC Router 10 gbps Abilene DC Router 10 gbps Abilene Atlanta Router 622 mbps Ampath GigaPoP 45 mbps NWS (Miami)
Challenge • Cyberinfrastructure built on federated enterprises • Security • Privacy • Trust • Answer: Middleware • Industry consensus through alliances • Internet2 providing key technology in security and privacy space
Federated Enterprises Federated trust, privacy, security Enterprise A Enterprise B Enterprise C Enterprise D Local authentication User attribute control Universal access ---- Login Locally, Access Globally User Interface User
Challenge: Building a System Applications End-to-end Performance Security Motivate Enable Middleware Services Networks
Challenge: Last Mile • Vision: Gigabit to the home and small businesses • Why? • End user is the innovator • Personal publishing • Equal access for all • How? • Community investment
Models • Community fiber projects, • California: “One Gigabit or Bust” • UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agancy) – FTTH project in Utah • Trends in customer-owned fiber • Corporate infrastructure • Higher education community
Summary • What should we be doing? • Living in the future, being early adopters • Cooperation in middleware • Facilitate knowledge and technology transfer • Where does the high performance Internet reside in the disruptive technology space?
More Internet2 Information • On the Web • www.internet2.edu • www.internet2.edu/about/lists.html • Email • info@internet2.edu • dvh@internet2.edu