Internet2: building the Internet of the future for academia today

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Internet2 building the Internet of the future
for academia today

• Douglas E. Van Houweling
• President and CEO, UCAID

Ciencia, Cultura y Educación sobre Internet2 6
de Abril de 2001 Val Paraíso, Chile
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Background

• Internet2 project formed in 1996 by 34 U.S.
  universities
• Current members
• 185 U.S. universities
• 70 for-profit corporations
• 30 not-for-profit organizations
• In close partnership with
• U.S. government
• 30 national networking organizations of other
  countries
• University Corporation for Advanced Internet
  Development (UCAID) is the non-profit corporate
  home of the Internet2 project

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Internet2 Goals

• Enable new generation of applications
• Re-create leading edge RE network capability
• Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services
  and applications to the global Internet

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Engineering
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Yesterdays Internet

• Thousands of users
• Remote login, file transfer
• Interconnect mainframe computers
• Applications capitalize on underlying technology

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Todays Internet

• Millions of users
• Web, email, low-quality audio video
• Interconnect personal computers and servers
• Applications adapt to underlying technology

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Tomorrows Internet

• Billions of users and devices
• Convergence of todays applications with
  multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV)
• Interconnect personal computers, servers, and
  embedded computers
• New technologies enable unanticipated
  applications (and create new challenges)

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Directions Applications

• The focus is swinging to high performance
  applications..
• Collaboration
• Remote Access
• Very Large Scale Systems
• The challenge is scaling and propagating the
  examples

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Virtual Laboratories

• Real-time access to remote instruments
• University of North Carolina, Chapel
  HillDistributed nanoManipulator

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Virtual Laboratories

• Mauna Kea Observatories
• AURA
• University of Hawaii

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Tele-cubicles and the CAVE
Source University of Illinois-Chicago
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Middleware

• A layer of software between the network and the
  applications
• Authentication
• Identification
• Authorization
• Directories
• Security

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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

• Internet2 community has unique needs and
  capabilities
• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education
• Early Harvest and Early Adopters
• Internet2 PKI Labs
• Shibboleth (authentication)
• Computational middleware (Beta Grid)
• Medical middleware
• Directories

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Directions -- Middleware

• The Internet2 community has responded
• Our architects have come together
• Our institutions have begun to invest
• Our corporate partners have engaged
• Distributed authentication
• Distributed directory
• 3rd Quarter 2001 the world begins to change

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Engineering

• Quality of Service QBone
• Scalable IP Multicast
• IPv6
• Network Security
• Network Management
• Measurement

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Internet2 Network Infrastructure

• Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity
  today
• GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance
  aggregation points
• Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the
  desktop

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Network Architecture
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Internet2 Backbone Networks
Donna Cox,Robert Patterson, NCSA
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Directions Network of the Future

• Abilene and the vBNS have delivered high
  performance backbone service
• The connectors are maturing and sharing knowledge
• We need to respond to the wavelength opportunity
• Our partners in Canada and Europe are committed
• The flexibility will be crucial to our future

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Directions End to End Performance

• When its built, can it deliver?
• The negative feedback loop
• Ensure that the infrastructure is delivering to
  its full potential
• The community has spoken
• Design Team has delivered

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Directions Extending Access

• How should we extend our capabilities?
• Abilene use opened to individual and groups of
  Sponsored Participants
• Primary and secondary schools
• Museums
• Libraries
• Etc.

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Internet2 Corporate Partners

• 3Com
• Advanced Network Services
• Alcatel
• Ameritech
• ATT
• Cabletron Systems
• Cisco Systems
• IBM
• ITCDeltacom
• Lucent Technologies

• Marconi
• WorldCom
• Microsoft
• Newbridge Networks
• Netcom Systems
• Nortel Networks
• Qwest Communications
• SBC Communications
• WCI Cable

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Directions Corporate Activities

• New opportunities
• Content
• Start-Ups
• Project-based interaction
• Increased focus on deploying standards
• More effort devoted to building the relationships

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Directions international

• Research increasingly dependent upon
  international collaboration
• Teaching and and learning increasingly looking
  for international collaboration
• With partners in other countries, support
  international high performance networking needs
• Ensure continued global interoperability of new
  networking technologies

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Internet Development Spiral
Commercialization
Privatization
Todays Internet
Internet2
Research and
Development
Partnerships
Source Ivan Moura Campos
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Directions Our Message

• We stand with colleagues across the world in a
  vision of an open, innovative, high performance
  Internet

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www.internet2.edu