Internet2 K20 Initiative

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Internet2 K20 Initiative SEGP Update

• 2003 Gathering of State Networks
• Heather Bruning, Abilene Program Manager

February 5, 2003
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Abilene Focus

• Goals
• Enabling innovative applications and advanced
  services not possible over the commercial
  Internet
• Backbone regional infrastructure provides a
  vital substrate for the continuing culture of
  Internet advancement in the university/corporate
  research sector
• Advanced service efforts
• Multicast
• IPv6
• QoS
• Measurement
• Security

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Partnership approach

• The Abilene Network is a UCAID project done in
  partnership with
• Cisco Systems (routers, switches, and access)
• Juniper Networks (routers)
• Nortel Networks (SONET kit)
• Qwest Communications (SONET DWDM circuits,
  co-location)
• Indiana University (network operations center)
• Internet2 Test Evaluation Centers (ITECs)
• North Carolina and Ohio

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Abilene February 2003

• IP-over-DWDM (OC-192c) and IP-over-SONET backbone
  (OC-48c)
• 50 direct connections (OC-3c ? 10-Gbps)
• 1 (soon 2) 10-Gbps (10 Gig Eth) connection
• OC-192 SONET also supported
• 7 OC-48c 1 Gig Eth connections
• 24 connections at OC-12c or higher
• 221 participants research univs. labs
• All 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto
  Rico
• Expanded access
• 62 sponsored participants and 25 state education
  networks

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Next Generation Abilene status

• 10 of 11 next generation router nodes in place
• Deploying two racks in each location Juniper
  T640 router four measurement servers
• OC-48c SONET interconnects to Cisco 12008 routers
• Atlanta awaiting co-location site selection
• Very pleased to date with new router performance
  and interoperability with 1st generation backbone
• Transcontinental 10-Gbps ?s in place
• Six ?s connected to network
• DC-NYC-Chicago-Indy-KC-Sunnyvale CA-Los Angeles
• First ? outage (3.5 hours) fiber cut in NYC
• ITEC network performance validation test
• 8 Gbps of 2-way traffic (50 v4/v6 and 100 v6)
  transmitted transcontinentally without loss or
  reordering

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Internet2 K20 Initiative - Overview

• Goals
• Structure
• Communications Strategy
• Communities/Partnerships
• Projects/Activities

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Past Lessons Learned

• The more innovators brought on board early ? the
  greater the progress.
• The more broadly shared the tech platforms and
  tools ? the greater the leverage.
• A disproportionate share of important innovations
  come from the .edu realms.
• There are many important opportunities for the
  use of technology in teaching, learning and
  access.
• We need to do a better job of evaluation and
  timely communication.
• Internet culture (loose consensus and working
  code) plus partnerships works for this -- much
  better than traditional education
  process/planning models.

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K20 Initiative GoalsBeyond Connectivity

• To bring innovators in K-12, community colleges,
  universities, libraries and museums into
  appropriate regional, national and international
  advanced networking efforts, via the "Sponsored
  Education Group Participant" (SEGP) process.
• To encourage and help sustain partnerships among
  these education institutions, the private sector
  and government.
• To enhance teaching and learning by facilitating
  projects that explore the ways in which advanced
  network applications, services, tools and digital
  content can extend access to education and
  educational resources.
• To develop mechanisms for timely communication
  across all educational sectors and regions in
  order to enable quick, pervasive technology
  diffusion.

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Internet2 K20 Approach

• Projects will be carried out by multi-state,
  often multi-sector, project teams
• Project leadership will come from the team, with
  support from Internet2 K20 project staff
• Initial projects will seek to leverage current
  Internet2 projects and innovative efforts among
  Internet2 members, institutions, sponsored
  participants and SEGPs

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K20 Advisory Committee

• Representatives from each state
• Designated by Internet2 sponsors
• Represent the broad programmatic interests of the
  SEGP sponsor(s), connector, as well as the
  spectrum of participants/audiences (e.g., K12,
  colleges and universities, public libraries,
  museums, science centers, zoos, etc.)
• Provide input, ideas, feedback to help shape,
  guide, and inspire the national Initiative

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K20 Advisory Committee Roles

• Identify and engage innovators within their state
  -- among the K12, higher education, library and
  museum communities -- in Internet2 K20 projects
• Bring forward projects for multi-state
  participation
• Encourage SEGP participation in existing
  Internet2 working groups where appropriate
• Serve as an information conduit between
  local/regional/state efforts and the national
  initiative
• Provide feedback to the project directors as the
  Initiative evolves

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K20 Executive Committee

• Group of 13 individuals from various states
  around the SEGP community
• More nimble than the larger advisory committee
• Help shape overall initiative goals and strategy
• Identify possible working group areas to engage
  other Advisory Committee membersand their
  constituencies.

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K20 Communication Strategy

• Demo Materials
• materials need not be themselves Internet2
  applications but need to capture applications and
  projects in a compelling way
• Featured SEGP
• opportunity to overview the work and
  accomplishments underway in SEGP states
• Internet2 K20 Newsletter
• focuses on the work being done by K20
  institutions and is shared broadly with the K20
  community via listserv and the web site

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K20 Communication Strategy (continued)

• Resources
• guides K20 constituents to important SEGP and
  Internet2 related information
• Opportunities
• a list of opportunities to help various
  communities get involved in the Internet2 K20
  Initiative
• Tearsheet glossy
• single-page glossy overview of the Initiative.
  Available in print and pdf on the web site

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A Few Relevant Communities

• Sponsored Education Group Participants (state
  networks)
• Museums, libraries, archives, cultural
  institutions
• Beltway societies and associations
• Key sponsored research agencies, e.g., NSF, NIH,
  NEA
• Education and learning research organizations,
  including think tanks, research groups, national
  academies
• UCAID Internet2 members
• International partners (e.g., CANARIE)

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K20 Initiative Partnerships

• American Library Association's Office for
  Information Technology Policy
• working with the K20 Initiative to shape a
  strategy for using advanced networks and
  applications in public and academic libraries.
• The Quilt
• UCAID project whose participants are non-profit
  advanced regional network organizations dedicated
  to furthering research and education in the
  United States.

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Current K20 Projectsa few examples

• eMINTS Pioneers
• Imagining the Future
• Virginia Jason Project
• NEPTUNE
• Labscape for Education
• PacificLighthouse
• K12 Middleware

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A Sampling of Areas of Interest

• Digital Content actively seeking out local
  resources
• Music (e.g., ethnomusicology and music education)
• Documentary films, animation arts, local history
• Presidential libraries
• Historical information, primary source documents
• Learning courseware curriculum repositories
• Video H.323 and future interactive video and
  multimedia technologies, digital video, low- to
  high-end video multicast
• Remote instrumentation other scientific
  apparatus which could be shared across
  educational communities
• Middleware deployment and partnerships
• Engaging public libraries uses of advanced
  networks
• Internet2 server technologies, caching,
  co-location

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Get Involved!

• Contact Louis Fox or James Werle with ideas or
  questions
• Read about what is going on
• Get to know your friendly SEGP representative
• Make frequent visits the Opportunities section of
  the Internet2 K20 website

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Abilene Access

• Primary Participants research universities,
  corporations, etc.
• Affiliate Corporate members
• Sponsored Participants individual locations
• And now..
• SEGPs Sponsored Education Group Participants

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Sponsored Education Group Participant (SEGP)
Fundamentals

• SEGP status targeted at both developed and
  emerging state-based education networks
• One or more Internet2 University Members in the
  same state act as sponsor(s)
• Connectors take overall fiscal and operational
  responsibility for the SEGP
• Periodic SEGP progress updates to Abilene
  required (e.g., how are SEGPs implementing
  advanced applications?)

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Approved SEGPs
California New Mexico
Florida New York
Georgia North Carolina
Hawaii North Dakota
Illinois Ohio
Indiana Oklahoma
Iowa Oregon
Louisiana Pennsylvania
Maryland Rhode Island
Michigan Virginia
Minnesota Washington
Missouri Wisconsin Utah
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Sponsored Education Group Participants as of
February 5, 2003
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SEGP Inquiries

• Alabama
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Massachusetts
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas (approval imminent)

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SEGP Connectivity SurveyFall 2002

• Survey Goals
• Provide a high level view of the connectivity and
  enabled technologies within the SEGPs
• Also, totals for the entire SEGP program (as of
  August 2002)
• Provide contact information for pursuing
  additional information
• The goal is NOT to provide a detailed site survey
  as this is too resource intensive and hard to
  maintain

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SEGP Connectivity SurveySummary of Results (Fall
2002)

• 62 of the state education networks can access
  the Internet2 backbone network at gt155 Mbps
• As of late 2002, there are 25 state k12/k20
  networks participating connecting about 9800 K20
  institutions
• 7173 k12 schools (73 of total)
• 1482 public libraries (15 of total)
• 551 community colleges (6 of total)
• 526 four-year colleges and universities (5 of
  total)
• 102 museums, zoos, aquariums, and science centers
  (1 of total)
• For more information http//k20.internet2.edu/seg
  p/stateconnect/segpsurvey.shtml

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SEGP Process

• Sponsor(s) complete SEGP Application
• SEGP Connector completes Abilene Connection
  Agreement Addendum
• Connector submits SEGP routing information to
  UCAID at abilene_at_internet2.edu
• UCAID reviews and approves routes and submits
  them to the Abilene NOC
• Abilene NOC begins passing additional SEGP
  traffic on the network
• Appoint Internet2 K20 Initiative Representatives

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SEGP Connector Requirements

• A Connector supporting the Sponsored Education
  Group Participant(s) must
• Maintain a 7x24 Network Operations Center (NOC)
• Register its routing information and that of the
  Participant(s) in the Internet2 Routing Registry
  (I2db) or equivalent
• Provide UCAID a quarterly report on the relative
  utilization of the Abilene connection by the SEGP
• Assure compliance with the Abilene CoU by the
  Participant(s)
• Inform the Participant(s) that Abilene does not
  provide transit to the commodity Internet
• These steps will be implemented through an
  amended Abilene Connection agreement

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SEGP Related Costs

• Annual participation fee
• 30,000 2,000 x (size of States U.S. House
  delegation)
• Delegation size provides a readily auditable
  population metric
• This annual fee
• will be charged on a per-connecting
  organization, per-state basis
• will be paid directly by the Abilene Connector
  on behalf of the Sponsored Participant
• is not eligible for E-rate discount

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Contact Information

• On the Web
• k20.internet2.edu/
• abilene.internet2.edu/
• Email
• Louis Fox lfox_at_internet2.edu
• Heather Bruning heather.bruning_at_internet2.edu
• Abilene (general inquiries) abilene_at_internet2.edu
  
• Phone
• Louis Fox [phone]
• Heather Bruning [phone]

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