Internet2 Overview

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Internet2 Overview
See http//apps.internet2.edu/talks

• Ann Doyle
• Manager, Arts Humanities Initiatives
• October 26, 2001

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Topics

• Organization
• International Opportunities
• Abilene Network
• Applications
• Arts and Humanities Initiatives

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Organization
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Internet2 Mission

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies for research and higher
  education, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows internet.

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Internet2 Members
188 universities (yellow dots) 70 corporations 40
non-profits and govt labs
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Internet2 Membership

• Regular
• US institutions of higher education
• Corporate
• Members
• Sponsors
• Partners
• Affiliate
• Non-profit and other research or education
  organizations

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International Opportunities
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International Connectivity

• International MOU Partners
• Over 30 networks in countries around the world
• Memoranda of Understanding are established with
  international networking organizations that share
  Internet2s goals and objectives
• MOUs define the interconnection agreements
  between these networks and Abilene

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International MoU Partners

• APAN-KR (Korea)
• ARNES (Slovenia)
• BELNET (Belgium)
• CANARIE (Canada)
• CARNET (Croatia)
• CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (china)
• APAN (Asia-pacific)
• CESnet (Czech republic)
• CUDI (Mexico)
• DANTE (Europe)
• DFN-Verein (Germany)
• AAIREP (Australia)
• Fundacion internet 2 Argentina (Argentina)
• GIP RENATER (France)
• GRNET (Greece)
• HEAnet (Ireland)
• HUNGARNET (Hungary)
• INFN-GARR (Italy)

• Israel-IUCC (Israel)
• JAIRC (Japan)
• JISC/UKERNA (UK)
• JUCC (Hong Kong)
• NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
• POL-34 (Poland)
• RCCN (Portugal)
• RedIRIS (Spain)
• RESTENA (Luxembourg)
• REUNA (Chile)
• RPN2 (Brazil)
• SENACYT (Panama)
• SingAREN (Singapore)
• Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
• SWITCH (Switzerland)
• TAnet2 (Taiwan)
• TERENA (Europe)

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Abilene Network
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Abilene Network
Seattle
New York
Partners Qwest Cisco Nortel Indiana Univ

Cleveland
Chicago
Sunnyvale
Denver
Indianapolis
Sacramento
Washington
Washington, DC
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Houston
- Today OC48 Packet over Sonet, multicast, IPv4
IPv6, quality of service (DiffServ)
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Network Architecture
I2 Interconnect Cloud
GigaPoP One
GigaPoP Two
vBNS (Worldcom) and Abilene
GigaPoP Four
GigaPoP Three
Gigabit capacity point of presence
an aggregation point for regional connectivity
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GigaPoPs, cont.
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Engineering Objectives

• Deploy a leading edge production network for
  applications RD
• OC48 (2.4gigabits/second) backbone
• Campus links at up to OC48
• Support advanced features
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Multicast
• IPv6

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Project Team

• Overall direction by Internet2, with
• Qwest Corporation
• Nortel
• Cisco Systems
• Indiana University

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Applications
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Internet2 Applications

• What are Internet2 applications?
• They deliver qualitative and quantitative
  improvements in how we conduct research and
  engage in teaching and learning
• They require advanced networks to work

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Different Disciplines/Contexts

• Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
• Health care
• Business/Law
• Administration

• Library
• Classroom
• Clinic
• Office
• Laboratory
• Dorm room

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Application Attributes

• Interactive research collaboration and
  instruction
• Real-time access to remote resources

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Attributes, cont.

• Large-scale, multi-site computation and data
  mining
• Shared virtual reality
• Any combination of the above

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Arts and HumanitiesInitiatives
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Variations

• Indiana University

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Variations
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Recording Studio that Spans a Continent

• University of Southern California
• McGill University

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• Twelve uncompressed high-quality audio channels
  streamed over Abilene and CAnet3
• USC engineers mixed the audio for a live audience
  in LA

McGill University
http//ww2.mcgill.ca/icc/canarie/
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A Real-time Visualization System for Large Scale
Urban Environments

• UCLA

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Source UCLA Urban Simulation Team
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Survivors of the Shoah

• Visual History Foundation

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• A 180 terabyte, multimedia archive of Holocaust
  testimonies
• Plans are to disseminate the archive to museums
  and educational institutions using Internet2
  networks

Visual History Foundation
http//www.vhf.org/
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Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System

• Caltech and CERN

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• Worldwide video-conferencing service and
  collaborative environment
• Web-based system
• Averages 100 multipoint worldwide sessions each
  month

Caltech and CERN
http//www.vrvs.org/
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Teleimmersion

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Illinois-NCSA
• Old Dominion University

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The CAVE
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Immersadesk
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Distributed nanoManipulator

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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Live Performances
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Live Performances

• Native Alaskan Performance, University of Alaska
• Teaching a Private Music Lesson Via Internet2,
  University of Oklahoma
• Dance Lecture Demonstration, Virginia
  Commonwealth and Virginia Tech
• The Great Link, The University of Michigan
• Distributed musical, New York University and
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Live Performances

• Remote orchestra presentation, University of
  Oklahoma
• Distributed recording studio, University of
  Alabama at Birmingham
• Distributed quintet, University of Oklahoma
• Remote auditions, New World Symphony
• Maestro Pinchas Zukerman master class, Columbia
  University, Manhattan School of Music, and
  CANARIE Inc.

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Engaging Developers

• Outreach
• Go to faculty on campus and at discipline
  meetings
• See apps.internet2.edu/i2-day.html
• Educating about development issues
• Portability, interoperability, scaling,
• Multicast, Quality of Service, security,
• See dast.nlanr.net/

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New Initiatives

• Expanded Access
• Abilene access provided to state networks and
  individual schools, libraries, museums, etc.
• National Videoconferencing Service
• H.323 core
• Support for MPEG, DV, etc. efforts
• End-to-End Performance Initiative
• Middleware Shibboleth, NMI

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More Info ...

• www.internet2.edu
• adoyle_at_internet2.edu
• apps.internet2.edu/talks/
• Ann Doyle Internet2 3025 Boardwalk Suite
  100 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 1.734.352.7011

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