Research and Higher Education Networking: A New Internet Douglas E' Van Houweling President

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Research and Higher Education Networking A New
Internet?Douglas E. Van HouwelingPresident
CEOInternet2
University of Montana Monday, 17 September
2007 Gallagher Business Bldg., Room 122
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Overview

• Where we have been, and why
• Internet2
• Innovation in higher education and research
  networking
• Implications for infrastructure
• Implications for the Internet
• The future What we need to do

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History Background

• ARPANet
• 1987 NSFNet
• Regional networks
• 1990 -- Advanced Network and Services
• 1994 -- WWW
• 1994 -- Commercialization
• 1997 -- Next Generation Internet Initiative
  Internet2

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What is Internet2?

• Membership organization with more than
• 200 universities
• 70 corporations
• 40 affiliated organizations
• Supported by membership dues fees
• Budget more than 30 million per year

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What Does Internet2 Do?

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows Internet

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Internet2 Universities209 University Members as
of August 2007
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Internet2 Affiliate Members

• Manhattan School of Music
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
  (NIST)
• National Geographic
• National Institutes of Health
• NOAA Washington, D.C.
• National Science Foundation
• New World Symphony
• NIST
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• OSTN (Open Student Television Network)
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Ruth Lily Health Education Center
• SURA
• TOPIX
• U.S. Census Bureau
• United Nations System of Organizations

• ACUTA
• Altarum
• American Distance Education Consortium
• Association of Universities for Research in
  Astronomy (AURA)
• CERN
• Charles R. Drew University
• Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
• Cleveland Institute of Music
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Coalition for Networked Information
• Desert Research Institute
• EDUCAUSE
• ESnet
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems
  Society (HIMSS)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications
  System (IHETS)
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Internet2 RE Network Members

• 3ROX
• CEN
• CENIC
• CIC OmniPoP
• CPE
• FLR
• GPN
• Indiana GigaPoP
• KanREN
• LEARN
• LONI
• MAGPI
• MAX
• MCNC
• Merit Network

• MOREnet
• MREN
• NJEDge.Net
• Northern Lights GigaPoP
• NOX
• NYSERNet
• OARnet
• OneNet
• OSCnet
• OSHEAN
• Pacific Northwest GigaPoP
• PeachNet
• SOX
• UEN
• WiscNet

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State Education Networks Connected to Internet2
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Internet2 Corporate Partners
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Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

• Arbor Networks
• Campus Televideo
• Codian, Inc.
• Foundry Networks
• inSORS Integrated Communications

• Polycom Worldwide
• RADVISION
• TANDBERG
• VBrick Systems

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Internet2 Corporate Members

• ADVA Optical Networking
• Apparent Networks
• Arbinet-thexchange, Inc.
• C-SPAN
• Caterpillar, Inc.
• Cdigix
• Cedar Point Communications
• Comcast Cable Communications
• CommuniGate Systems
• EBSCO Information Services
• Education Networks of America, Inc.
• Fujitsu Laboratories of America
• Global Crossing
• Google
• HaiVision Systems, Inc.
• Johnson Johnson
• KDDI Corporation
• LifeSize Communications

• Lucent Technologies
• Media Links, Inc.
• Napster, LLC
• Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT)
• Northrop Grumman Information Technology
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center
• OpVista, Inc.
• RIAA
• Red Hat, Inc.
• Ruckus Network, Inc.
• Schlumberger
• Steelcase, Inc.
• The Thomson Corporation
• Verizon Business
• Video Furnace, Inc.
• VoEx, Inc
• Warner Bros.

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Current International Partners
Europe
Africa
MCIT EUN/ENSTINET (Egypt) TENET (South
Africa)
ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET
(Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE
(Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) FCCN
(Portugal) GARR (Italy) GIP- RENATER
(France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET
(Hungary) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) PSNC/PIONER
(Poland) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA
(Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET
(Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH
(Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA
(United Kingdom)
Middle East
Etisalat University College (UAE) Israel-IUCC
(Israel) Qatar Foundation (Qatar)
South Asia
ERNET/CDAC (India)
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Internet2 International Partners
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Summary

• Internet2 started October 1996
• From 34 to over 200 universities today
• 50 other research and non-profit institutions
• From United Nations to Lawrence Berkeley Labs to
  the New World Symphony
• 50 for profit companies
• 30 state and regional RE networks
• Primary, secondary schools, museums, libraries,
  healthcare institutions through Sponsored
  Educational Group Participants (SEGP)
• More than 50 international partners

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Summary

• Internet2
• Provides a high-performance network environment
  for the US research and education community
• optimized to meet the needs of research,
  teaching, learning, clinical and outreach
  missions of that community
• Enables the development and deployment of new
  network, middleware and applications
  technologies, services and protocols
• Draws the community together to support these
  efforts

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Technology

• Computing continues to follow Moores Law
• Storage is moving to the atomic level
• Networking is exploding in the optical and
  wireless domains
• Identity management middleware enables virtual
  communities
• Human/Computer interface is rapidly evolving
• Culminating in the Cybersphere
• persistent, pervasive, global, and immersive
  information/knowledge environment

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Integrated Systems Model
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Internet2 infrastructure
100 Mbps -10 Gbs
Library
University
K20 School
Museum
University
Library
ResearchLaboratory
K20 School
NationwideNetwork Links
Library
Research Laboratory
K20 School
Museum
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A New Networking Model
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A New Networking Model
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A New Networking Model
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The Internet2 network

• Replaced the old Abilene backbone network
• Hybrid optical and IP network
• Fiber, optical equipment dedicated to Internet2
  Level 3 maintains network and service level
• Infrastructure to support multiple networks
• Internet2 IP Service
• Dynamic and static circuit services
• ESnets next generation network
• Platform supports production services and
  experimental projects

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Internet2 Network Capabilities

• Capacity and reliability to serve large scale
  projects eVLBI, LHC, NEON, TeraGrid
• Flexibility to support smaller projects at lower
  bandwidths, for variable durations
• Lightpath provisioning to the campus
• Ideal platform for network research

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Internet2 Network Infrastructure with Multiple
Services
Routed IP Network
Router Layer
Ethernet Layer
Switched SONET Layer (vcat, lcas)
SONET Switched Network
Provisioned Services
Switched WDM Optical Layer
Ethernet VLAN Switched Network (i.e., HOPI)
Multi-Layer GMPLS Networks
Separate (Peering) Control Plane Instantiations
for each of the above
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Circuit Service Types

• Static Services - Configured by our NOC
• Ethernet or SONET Framed over Lambda - Directly
  on the Infinera wave equipment
• SONET Circuits through the Ciena equipment
• Ethernet Framed tagged or untagged circuits under
  SONET via GFP
• MPLS L2VPNs
• Dynamic Circuit Service
• Only through the Ciena equipment at the start,
  eventually evolving to the full platform
• Create Circuits in seconds for periods of hours
  to weeks

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Internet2 Network - Layer 1

Internet2 Network Optical Switching Node Level3
Regen Site Internet2 Redundant Drop/Add
Site ESnet Drop/Add Site
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The Crucial Role of the RONs
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Advanced RE NetworkingNetworking Capabilities

• TODAY
• Megabit-per-second bandwidth
• IP-based services
• Campus-focused middleware
• Loose coordination across networks
• TOMORROW
• Gigabit-per-second bandwith
• IP-based and Dynamic Circuit (DC) services
• Inter-domain middleware
• High coordination across networks

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Middleware Infrastructure

• Focus
• Inter-institutional collaboration
• Scalable authenticated/authorized access to
  remote resources
• Internet2 role
• Defining/creating architecture Shibboleth
• Tools to implement Shibboleth, Grouper, Signet
• Infrastructure/Services to scale InCommon, USHER

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Advanced RE NetworkingApplications

• TODAY
• TV-Quality Videoconferencing
• Gigabyte-class data sets among small research
  groups
• Limited access to remote scientific instruments
• TOMORROW
• Uncompressed HDTV and gigapixel displays
• Terabyte-class data sets among global research
  groups
• Routine, reliable, and discipline wide access to
  remote scientific instruments

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Access to Unique Scientific Instruments

• Astronomy
• High-Energy and Nuclear Physics

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Health Science Research and Instruction
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Tele-health

• Medical instruction
• Clinical practice
• Research

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Weather Prediction and Disaster Recovery
Images courtesy of NOAA
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Supporting Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks

• Ecology
• Seismology
• Meteorology

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Collaboration and Communication
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Hi-fidelity Collaboration

• HD-quality video
• CD-quality audio

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Fine Arts Rehearsal and Performance
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NEPTUNE
http//www.neptune.washington.edu/
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Lewis and Clark Then and Now
http//ali.apple.com/lewisandclark/
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JASON
http//www.jason.org/
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Digital Learning Commons
http//www.learningcommons.org/
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CI Functions and Interactions
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Cyberinfrastructure VisionMore Than High-End
Computing and Connectivity

• Focused making greater capabilities available
  across the science and engineering research
  communities
• Allows applications to interoperate across
  institutions and disciplines
• Ensures that data and software are preserved and
  easily available to all
• Empowers enhanced collaboration over distance and
  across disciplines
• Report of the National Science Foundation
  Blue-RibbonAdvisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure

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Implications of Internet2s Experience for the
Internet

• Higher education is a leader in Internet
  technology innovation and deployment
• College student experiences drive commercial
  demand
• Fiber reaching ever-closer to the end user
• New industries (gaming, home video
  creation/sharing) are demand drivers

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The Broadband Homeof Tomorrow
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Next Steps in Network Development

• Optical and wireless technologies
• New types of transport technologies
• All-optical switching
• 10x leap in bandwidth
• Ubiquitous coverage
• Middleware deployment
• Next generation of Internet protocols (IPv6)

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Gigaband Requirements vs. Current Broadband
Technology
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Last Mile Options for Gigaband

• Phone lines
• Twisted pair requires fiber distribution to the
  curb
• ATT U-verse example
• Cable TV
• Current channelization wont support GigaBand
• Restructured architecture could provide gigabit
  service
• Wireless
• Current licensed/unlicensed spectrum insufficient
• Massive spectrum reallocation required for needed
  capacity
• Fiber to the home/establishment
• Verizon FiOS

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Top Outstanding Issues

• Gigaband deployment
• Network Neutrality
• Symmetric end-to-end performance
• Federated authentication
• Network security

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An Asset for the Community
An Asset for the Community
Universities
Universities
Researchers
Researchers
Regional Networks
Regional Networks
K-12
K-12
Industry
Industry
International
International
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Questions?

• Find us at www.internet2.edu

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