Developments in Internet2

1. Developments in Internet2 Heather Boyles Director, Government and International Relations heather@internet2.edu

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

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

4. Internet2 Universities133 as of September 1998 University of Puerto Rico not shown

5. 3Com Advanced Network & Services, Inc. AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM Lucent Technologies MCI Worldcom Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks Qwest Communications StarBurst Communications Internet2 Corporate Partners

6. Bell South Packet Engines SBC Technology Resources StorageTek Torrent Technologies Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

7. Alcatel Telecom Ameritech Apple Computers AppliedTheory Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecom Deutsche Telekom GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint StorageTek Sun Microsystems SylvanLearning Telebeam Williams Communications Internet2 Corporate Members

8. Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering

9. Internet2 Applications • Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of: • Research • Teaching • Learning • Require advanced networking

10. Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration … Instruction Collaboration Streaming video Distributed computation Data mining Virtual reality Digital libraries … Many Disciplines and Contexts

11. Interactive research and instruction Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Virtual Laboratories Images courtesy of the University of Michigan

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

13. Video and audio Indiana UniversityVariations Project Digital Libraries

14. Multi-site databases Old Dominion University Chesapeake Bay Simulation Distributed Computation Image courtesy of Old Dominion University

15. Large-scale computation University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Distributed Computation Image courtesy of UCAR

16. Shared virtual reality University of Illinois at ChicagoVirtual Temporal Bone Teleimmersion Images courtesy Univ of Illinois-Chicago

17. Middleware Challenges • Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable • Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a pre-commercial production environment • Examples: • Distributed storage - I2DSI initiative • Multicast video tools - I2DVN initiative

18. Engineering Objectives • Deploy a production network to support applications R&D • Establish quality of service (QoS) • Support native multicast • Establish gigaPoPs as effective service points

19. I2 Interconnect Cloud Network Architecture GigaPoP One GigaPoP Two GigaPoP Three GigaPoP Four “Gigabit capacity point of presence” an aggregation point for regional connectivity

20. I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoPs, cont. University A E.g. vBNS, Abilene GigaPoP One Commodity Internet Connections Regional Network University B University C

21. Internet2 GigaPoPs

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

23. Abilene Router Node Abilene Access Node Operational January 1999 Planned 1999 Abilene NetworkJanuary 1999 Seattle Cleveland New York Sacramento Denver Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles Atlanta Houston

24. Abilene Characteristics • 2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192) • Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3) • IP over Sonet technology • Access PoPs very close to almost all of the anticipated university gigaPoPs

25. Abilene Schedule - the latest • Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting, in pre-production at several universities, connected to Chicago switch for STAR TAP • January 1999: Initial group of around 65 members connected in production mode • 1999: Other members connected as mutually planned

26. For UCAID Members • Involvement in the decisions • Responsive to continuing needs • Driven by member research • Potential for increasing connectivity for all UCAID university members wanting to participate in Research Goals.

27. Current Priorities • Establish backbone connectivity • Facilitate middleware implementation • Support network research • Identify and develop first phase applications • Build international collaboration opportunities

28. US Federal Government: Next Generation Internet (NGI) Programhttp://www.ngi.gov • Established in parallel with Internet2 • multi-agency research and development (R&D) program to develop, test, and demonstrate advanced networking technologies and applications • via testbeds that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today's Internet

29. Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship • Similar technical objectives • Focused on different, but complementary communities • NGI: Federal Mission agencies • UCAID/Internet2: university research and education community • Working to interconnect, make interoperable federal research networks and Abilene

30. Internet2 <--> NGI Relationship cont’d • Cooperative programs: • NSF High Performance Connections grants: UCAID universities using to connect to achieve Internet2 connectivity • Abilene <-> Energy, NASA network interconnection: being planned to provide high performance access for universities to research labs • Applications: researchers benefit from numerous federal grants that help develop applications

31. The QBone - What is It? • An interdomain testbed for differentiated services • Goals: • Grow a snowball of interoperable DiffServ clouds • Grow a community of participants • Foster pre-standards interoperability • Collaborate to solve problems and share experiences • Initial participants have been identified

32. QBone Call for Participation • CFP issued September 25th, 1998 • Proposals due October 16th • Review complete October 30th • Participant Types • Networks • Network Engineering / Advanced Development • Applications and Middleware Developers • Corporate Partners

33. Phase 0 Recommendations • 13 Proposals recommended for initial QIG • Abilene (Backbone network) • CAnet*2 (Backbone, GigaPoPs, Campuses, Bandwidth Broker Prototyping) • iCAIR Consortium (Backbone, GigaPoP, Campuses, Engineering, Applications) • APAN, CTIT, EVL, Indiana University, MREN, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, SingAREN (Backbone network), STAR TAP, SURFnet (Backbone network), TransPAC (Backbone interconnect)

34. Initial Recommendations - cont’d • IPPM Surveyor Project (Measurement Support) • Merit / University of Michigan (GigaPoP, Campus, Measurement, Application, BB) • NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative (Backbone, GigaPoP, Campuses, Engineering, Applications) • NREN (Backbone , NGIX, Application) • NYSERNet (Backbone, GigaPoP, Performance measurement) • PSC / NLANR / CMU (GigaPoP, Campus, Measurement, Application) • Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP (GigaPoP, Campus, Measurement) • UMN (GigaPoP, Campus, Application) • UPenn/ UMass (GigaPoP, Measurement, Policy) • vBNS (Backbone)

35. QBone Structure • QBone Interoperability Group (QIG) • Actively building pre-production interdomain DiffServ infrastructure • Works on nuts-and-bolts interoperability issues • Specific phased demonstrations of interdomain QoS • Participation staged to keep group focused • QBone Solutions Group (QSG) • Broader discussion of engineering and deployment issues • Includes teams that plan to join the QIG • Focus on intradomain engineering issues • Participation open to the Internet2 community • I2 QoS Working Group • Architectural guardians • Nurture QIG and QSG

36. Review Process • QBone Facilitation Committee (QFC) • 13 members of the Internet2 QoS Working Group • First, reviewed proposals individually • Then, met in Armonk to finalize • Principles and Guidelines • Emphasis on forming productive partnerships/groupings, rather than selecting/rejecting • “Small is beautiful” w.r.t Phase 0 QIG • Objective and subjective evaluations of proposals

37. Internet2 QoS Resources • QoS Working Group • Home Page:http://www.internet2.edu/qos/wg • Interest Mailing List:wg-qos-interest@internet2.edu • QBone • Home page:http://www.internet2.edu/qbone

38. Internet2 International Collaborations • Building peer to peer relationships • Looking for similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies • Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding • Signed: CANARIE, Stichting SURF, NORDUnet • In process: TERENA, SingAREN, JAIRC, APAN and others

39. What kind of collaborations? • Network interconnection • Abilene and CA*net2, SURFnet, NORDUnet, etc. • Specific project collaboration • QBone • middleware • research/learning applications • Technology transfer • mutual industrial participants?

40. Information exchange • International task force • to advise our Board, management on issues of international collaborations • Greater participation in international groups • CCIRN • GIBN

41. More Information • Me: Heather Boyles • heather@internet2.edu • +1 202 331 5342 • Internet2 • www.internet2.edu