March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Internet2 Member MeetingChicago, Illinois

4-7 December 2006

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Internet2 Backbone

• Internet2 is 208 universities, 35 corporate, 52 affiliate, many more connected via others international connections • Gigapops (MAGPI) and state networks (NJEDge and NYSERNet) membership

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Internet2 Services & Initiatives

Initiatives• Applications• Arts and Humanities• Health Science• Science and Engineering

Projects• End to End Performance• Middleware• SIP.edu• Digital Video

Program PPT and Clips: http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/agenda.cfm

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Internet2 NewNet

• Provided by Layer 3, Inferia, Indiana Univ, Ciena• Fully Deployed by July 2007 (less than 1 year)• 100 GbE (LAG) with 13000 miles of Fiber• Provisional/Static Network

• DWDM capable• Backbone for Science Networks

• ESNet (Energy Sciences Network)• NSF GENI Project (expected)

• Different to National Lambda Rail• Dark Fiber with NLR-provided Electronics

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Road to True 100 GbE

• 10 GbE Standard Backbone• 40 GbE In Limited Use• 100 GbE Achieved through LAG• 100 GbE Standard Under Dev• Higher Speed Study Group Formed (Sept 2006)• Takes ~ 4 Years For Start Finish• Expect 100 GbE to be accepted standard – 2010!

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

End to End Monitoring• Underlying Premise It’s the Network’s Fault

• But is it really? How do you really know?• Attended Workshop at Internet2 Member Meeting• Presentation done in early January

• PPT & Video on internet2.rutgers.edu site• Tools Server Available Late Spring/Early Summer

• Web100 Network Diagnostics Tools• ISO of Tools Available for Use on Clients

• … And If it is the Network’s Fault, NDT gives you the info to properly address the problem with the NOC.

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Gaming

• Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group• Second Life and NASA

• Moon Base by 2020• Need to increase students entering Sciences• Only one that scales• Target summer

Gaming for Health Studies

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

NextGen Videoconferencing• MegaConference VII (precursor) 360 sites (384kbps/30fps/1CIF)• Collaboranza (multicast and RTP)

• Evo (formerly VRVS), inSORS, Marratech, MS Res Conference XP, Polycom ViaVideo Live, Radvision's Click to Meet, (200 players) Adobe Breeze (would not attend)

• Gigaconference - Codian, LifeSize, Polycom, Tandberg• Raised the Bar (1mbps/30fps/4CIF)• USA, the Netherlands, Finland, and Australia• Arts, Humanities and Social Science Symposium

•  Cisco's Telepresence•  Research Channel•  DVTS and VLC

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

IPTV• IPTV

• Texas A&M• Foreign language channels

• OSTN• Campus TV migrating from COAX to Data Wire

University of Wisconsin’s DATN Network – http://datn.wisc.edu

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

Converged Services• Data, voice, and video on the same wire

• SIP - session initiation protocol• VOIP• Presence & Integrated Communication• Jabber, VOIP, video conference, email (LDAP)

• IPTV• Multicast (http://www.radvision.com/videomojo)

March OIT Technology Meeting

Internet2 Member Meeting

For more information

• http://internet2.rutgers.edu• http://internet2.edu• http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/agenda.cfm