Internet2 Heather Boyles Director, Government and International Relations AFTEL-CEE 7 October 1999

Internet2

Heather Boyles

Director, Government and International Relations

AFTEL-CEE

7 October 1999

Computers on the Internet

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Internet Domain Survey

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Internet Economy Facts and Figures

64 Million US Adult Regular Users Seven new people every second$301 Billion in 1998 revenueDoubling every 9 monthsInternet Advertising generated $1.92

billion in 1998

Sources:Internet Indicators, Internet Advertising Bureau

Yesterday’s Internet

Thousands of usersRemote login, file transferApplications capitalize on underlying

technology

Today’s Internet

Millions of usersWeb, email, low-quality audio & videoApplications adapt to underlying

technology

Tomorrow’s Internet

Billions of users and devicesConvergence of today’s applications

and servicesNew technologies enable

unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Partnerships

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

Today’s Internet

Internet2

Internet2 Goals

Enable new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network capability

Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

Enabling advanced applications...

Advanced Applications

Digital LibrariesVirtual LaboratoriesCollaborationVisualization and virtual realityAll of the above in combination

Many Disciplines and Contexts

Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration …

Instruction Collaboration Streaming video Distributed

computation Data mining Virtual reality Digital libraries …

Digital Libraries

Informedia Project

Carnegie Mellon University

Digital Libraries

Television News Archive

Vanderbilt University

Virtual Laboratories

Distributed nanoManipulator

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Virtual Laboratories

Real-time 3-D Brain Mapping

University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Collaborations

Link instruments, data sources, researchers and students

The CAVE

Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

Teleimmersion

Virtural Temporal Bone

University of Illinois at Chicago

Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-

Chicago

Distributed Computation

Large-scale computation

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Image courtesy of UCAR

Re-creating leading edge networking capabilities...

Middleware Initiatives

Quality of Service: QBone• www.internet2.edu/qbone

MulticastDistributed Storage: I2-DSI

• dsi.internet2.edu

Digital Video: I2-DVI2MI: GlueWorks

• www.internet2.edu/middleware

Ubiquitous Digital Video

Scalable and easy to use

Integrated into applicationsStreaming and interactiveReal-time and asynchronous (stored)Unicast and native multicastSingle source to multi-sourceResolutions up to HDTV

I2-DSI Model: Replicated Services

Clients access nearby server

Everyone gets performance

Local resources implement a global service

Applications: Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions

Middleware:Security, Directory, Quality of Service,Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting,Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast

Operating system and network services

Standard APIs

Standard APIs

Interoperable Protocols

Internet2 Working Groups

IPv6MeasurementMulticastNetwork ManagementNetwork StorageQuality of ServiceRoutingSecurityTopology

Applications and Engineering

NetworkedApplications

NetworkEngineering

Enables

Motivate

Internet2 GigaPoPs

Abilene Network

Cleve

land

New York

Atlanta

Indianapolis

Kansas City

Houston

Denver

Los Angeles

Sacramento

Seattle

Abilene Router Node

Abilene Access Node

Operational January 1999

Planned 1999

Abilene Characteristics

2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today13,000+ miles of circuits70+ universities connected by end of

1999National testbed for leading edge

technologiesInterconnecting with other national

R&E networks

Transferring technology and experience...

Internet2 Universities159 Members as of July 1999

University of Puerto Rico not shown

University of Puerto Rico not shown

University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID)

formed by Internet2 members in September 1997

not-for-profit corporation tat leads the Internet2 project

membership is self-selectingbased on ability of an organization to

make investment ($, time, personnel) towards Internet2 goals

Board of Trustees

David Ward, (Chair, Board of Trustees) University of Wisconsin Henry S. Bienen, Northwestern University William G. Bowen, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Molly Corbett Broad, University of North Carolina Larry R. Faulkner, University of Texas at Austin Steven B. Sample, University of Southern California Graham B. Spanier, Pennsylvania State University Eric Bloch, (Chair, Industry Strategy Council) Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago

(Chair, Applications Strategy Council) James Bruce, MIT

(Chair, Networking Policy and Planning Advisory Council) David Meyer, Cisco & Univ. of Oregon

(Chair, Networking Research Liaison Council ) Douglas E. Van Houweling

Internet2 Corporate Partners

Lucent Technologies MCI Worldcom Microsoft Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks Packet Engines Qwest Communications StarBurst WCI Cable Xylan

3Com Advanced Network &

Services Ameritech AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE Systems IBM ITC^Deltacom

Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

Bell SouthCompaqEricsson (formerly Torrent Networking

Technologies)Litton Network Access SystemsNovellSBC Technology ResourcesStorageTek

Internet2 Corporate Members Alcatel Telecom Apple Computer AppliedTheory Communications Bell Atlantic British Telecom Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu Laboratories of America GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD Motorola Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell

Alcatel Telecom Apple Computer AppliedTheory Communications Bell Atlantic British Telecom Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu Laboratories of America GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD Motorola Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell

Project OXYGEN RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Tachyon Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) Telebeam Teleglobe TransMedia Communications VTEL Williams

Communications Grp. Worldport Communications Inc.

Project OXYGEN RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Tachyon Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) Telebeam Teleglobe TransMedia Communications VTEL Williams

Communications Grp. Worldport Communications Inc.

International Activities

Ensure global interoperability of advanced networking technologies and applications

Enable collaborations between US researchers at Internet2 institutions and their non-US counterparts

International Partners

GIP RENATER (France) JAIRC (Japan) SingAREN (Singapore) CUDI (Mexico) APAN (Asia-Pacific

region) Israel-IUCC (Israel) AAIREP (Australia) HEAnet (Ireland)

CANARIE (Canada) Stichting SURF

(Netherlands) NORDUnet (Nordic

countries) TERENA (pan-European

association) UKERNA (UK) INFN-GARR (Italy) DFN-Verein (Germany)

International Infrastructure

Australia

Japan

Korea

Singapore

Taiwan

CERNCzech Rep.DenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyIcelandIrelandIsraelItalyNetherlandsNorwayRussiaSwedenUKMexico

Canada

Courtesy of STAR TAP

Technology Transfer Conduits

Collaborating on advanced applications

Deploying pre-commercial infrastructure and protocols

Establishing expertise and human capital

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Performance

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hypetechnologicalpotential

actualperformance

reality gap

Innovating to Close the Gap

For More Internet2 Information

www.internet2.edu

info@internet2.edu

heather@internet2.edu

www.internet2.edu

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