Internet2: directions for 1999 and opportunities for collaboration with NGI

1. Internet2: directions for 1999 and opportunities for collaboration with NGI Doug Van Houweling dvh@internet2.edu LSN Meeting 9 February 1999

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

3. Progress • 2.5 years ago:Internet2 Project formedOctober 1996 • 1.5 year ago: UCAID IncorporatedOctober 1997 • 10 months ago:Abilene LaunchedApril 1998

4. Today • 141 universities • 47 corporations • 7 gigapops connected to vBNS • Abilene in service w/ 20 institutions connected • Abilene peering with vBNS, ESnet • QoS -- QBone initiative launched • Middleware initiative launched

5. UCAID Member Universities141 Members as of January 1999 University of Puerto Rico not shown

6. 3Com Advanced Network & Services AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM ITC^DeltaCom Lucent Technologies MCI Worldcom Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks Qwest Communications StarBurst Communications Internet2 Corporate Partners

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

8. Alcatel Telecom Ameritech Apple Computer AppliedTheory Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecom Compaq/DEC Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Telebeam Teleglobe Williams Communications Internet2 Corporate Members

9. Abilene • Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting • January 1999: Abilene in full service • peering with: vBNS, ESnet • By December 1999: around 65 institutions connected

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

11. Middleware Initiative • Objective: a “Services Rich” Network Environment • Functional services available to users and developers • Enabling new collaborations and applications • Supported as production quality • An integrated framework • Scaled to the size of the research and education community

12. Applications: Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions Standard APIs Middleware: Security, Directory, Quality of Service, Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting, Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast Standard APIs Operating system and network services Interoperable Protocols

13. QoS Digital video/audio Security Collaboration Directories Multicast File systems Measurement Remote instruments IMS Transaction systems Meta-computing Management IP telephony Accounting/billing E-commerce Object brokers Search mechanisms Printing Technology Scope

14. Avoiding Balkanization Physics Applications Digital Library Applications Instructional Applications Data Mining Applications Physics QoS Digital Library QoS Instructional QoS Data Mining QoS Physics Security Digital Library Security Instructional Security Data Mining Security Physics Directories Digital Library Directories Instructional Directories Data Mining Directories Physics Storage Digital Library Storage Instructional Storage Data Mining Storage TCP/IP Network

15. Initiative Overview • Deliverables • Identification of a small number of key community projects • Information dissemination • Demos • Workshops

16. Principles • Focus on problems where • We have a unique incentive to solve • The benefit to our community is clear and compelling • Results are attainable in a reasonable timeframe

17. QBone Initiative • 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 and met in several cases

18. Initial Participants • Abilene • CAnet*2 • iCAIR Consortium • 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)

19. Initial Participants - cont’d • IPPM Surveyor Project • Merit / University of Michigan • NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative • NREN • NYSERNet • PSC / NLANR / CMU • Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP • UMN • UPenn/ UMass • vBNS

20. 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, TERENA*, SingAREN, JAIRC • In process: UK, Italy, Germany, France

21. International collaborations cont’d • Network interconnection • Interconnection at STAR TAP (CAnetII, SURFnet, NORDUnet, SingAREN underway) • Second interconnection directly with Abilene (NY - NORDUnet, SURFnet) • Specific project collaboration • QBone (e.g. SURFnet an initial participant) • middleware • research/learning applications

22. Next Steps • Continue to interconnect member desktops and servers at high speed • Continue to support advanced applications development • focus on multi-campus implementations • Adopt, develop and implement • QoS end-to-end • middleware end-to-end • new business models

23. Internet2 and NGI collaboration • JET • Internet2 participation (Guy Almes, Paul Love) • JET + I2 Topology WG joint meetings: NGIX • HPNAT • Internet2 participation (Ted Hanss) • Internet2 Working Groups • NGI network or agency participation in Internet2 WGs: IPv6, QoS, Measurement, Routing, Topology

24. I2-NGI cont’d • Abilene • NSF HPNSP network serving HPC awardees • Network interconnection • Abilene and vBNS peering • Abilene and ESnet peering • Abilene and vBNS at Chicago NGIX • Demonstrations • cross-participation in Oct97, Mar98, Apr98 demonstrations at Highway 1

25. I2-NGI collaboration cont’d • Are there other opportunities for collaboration? • Engaging researchers on campus • greater collaboration in identifying and developing applications • We’re interested in discussing!