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Internet2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher Education

Internet2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher Education. Greg Wood Director of Communications. Internet2 Project Goals. Enable new generation of applications Re-create leading edge R&E network capability Transfer capability to the global production Internet. Commercialization.

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Internet2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher Education

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  1. Internet2 and AbileneAdvanced Networking in Higher Education Greg WoodDirector of Communications

  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. Commercialization Privatization 21st Century Interoperable Networking High Performance SprintLink Research &Education MCI/Worldcom Networks US Govt Networks ANS ARPAnet NSFNET Active gigabit Nets testbeds Broadband Wireless Abilene, vBNS Advanced US Govt Networks Quality of Service (QoS) Research and Development Partnerships Source: Ivan Moura Campos

  4. Current Internet2 Priorities • Identify and develop first phase applications • Establish nationwide high performance end-to-end connectivity • Facilitate middleware implementation • Support network research • Build international collaboration opportunities

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

  6. 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

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

  8. 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

  9. Advanced Internet Benefits • Richer content through higher bandwidth • Video, audio • Virtual reality • Dynamic, not static • More interactivity via minimal delay • Reliable content delivery through quality of service (QoS) model

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

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

  12. Interactive research collaboration and instruction Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Application Attributes Images courtesy of the University of Michigan

  13. Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above Attributes, cont. Images courtesy of Old Dominion University and Univ of Illinois-Chicago

  14. Middleware Challenges • Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable • Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a pre-commercial production environment • Examples: • Quality of Service • Multicast • Audio/Video Frameworks

  15. Recent Initiatives • Qbone • Quality of service testbed • I2-DVN • Internet2 Digital Video Network • I2-DSI • Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure • DoGBone • Digital video over GigaPoP

  16. Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering

  17. 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

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

  19. I2 Interconnect Cloud GigaPoPs, cont. University A GigaPoP One Commodity Internet Connections Regional Network University B University C

  20. GigaPoPs • Variety of services and styles • Technical and organizational differences • Mixture of technologies • Some things must be the same • IP as common bearer service • Inter-gigaPoP routing policy and design • Measurement • Trouble tickets among network operations centers

  21. Internet2 GigaPoPs

  22. Interconnect • vBNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service) • NSF and MCI cooperative agreement • Operating at OC12 • Peers with other federally sponsored networks • www.vbns.net • Abilene Network (January 1999)

  23. Abilene Project Goals • Support Internet2 applications development • Demonstrate next generation networking capabilities • Create facilities for network research

  24. Abilene Project Participants • UCAID • Qwest Communications • Cisco Systems • Nortel Networks • Indiana University

  25. Abilene Project Timeline • April 1998: Project Announced • September 1998: Prototype demonstration • January 1999: Operations begin

  26. 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

  27. 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 university gigaPoPs

  28. For more information... • On the Web • www.internet2.edu • Internet2 Applications • apps.internet2.edu • Abilene Project • www.ucaid.edu/abilene/ • Questions? • ghwood@internet2.edu

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