Internet2

John E. KennedyVice President for Operations

Ann Arbor, MichiganFebruary 7, 2002

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Discussion

Today’s Internet

What is Internet2

Areas of Activity

Network Infrastructure Update

Engagement With Internet2

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Today’s Internet

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Millions of People

Source:Nua Internet Surveys

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Today’s Internet

Millions of users

Web, email, low-quality audio & video

Interconnect personal computers and servers

Applications adapt to underlying technology

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Today’s Internet Doesn’t

Provide reliable end-to-end performance

Encourage cooperation on new capabilities

Allow testing of new technologies

Support development of revolutionary applications

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Tomorrow’s Internet

Billions of users and devices

Convergence of today’s 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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What is Internet2?

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Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Partnerships

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

Today’s Internet

Internet2

Source: Ivan Moura Campos

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Paths to Innovation

Lesson of the Web: unanticipated innovation

Network growth and value are non-linear

New technologies enable qualitatively different uses

Users become innovators

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Internet2 Mission

Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

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Internet2 Goals

Enable new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network capability

Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

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Why University Leadership?

The Internet came from the academic community

•Stanford – the Internet protocols

•NSFNet – the scaled-up Internet

•CERN – the WWW protocols

•University of Illinois – the Web browser

Universities’ research and education mission require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop it

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Internet2 Governance

University presidents / chancellors are the voting representatives

Strong board

Advisory councils with board seats•Applications Strategy

•Network Planning and Policy

•Network Research Liaison

• Industry Strategy Council

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Internet2 Partnerships

Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy

• Industry

•Government

• International

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Internet2 Universities190 Universities as of January 2002

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University Membership

Reasons for university engagement in Internet2

•Access to high-performance network environment

•Engagement with leading-edge academic networking community

•Practical experience with developing and deploying new network technologies and applications

•Positive association with Internet2® brand

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Additional Membership

Over 70 Internet2 Corporate Members

Over 40 Affiliate Members

36 International Partners

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Additional Membership

Government Agencies & Research Labs• Army Systems Engineering Office• Earth Resources Observations Systems (EROS) Data

Center (USGS)• Jet Propulsion Laboratory• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center• National Institutes of Health• National Institutes of Standards and Technology• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration• National Science Foundation• National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Internet2 Corporate Partners

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Maryland, Virginia, DCArea Members

Universities• University of Maryland• Johns Hopkins University• University of Maryland Baltimore County• University of Virginia• Virginia Polytechnic University• Old Dominion University• George Mason University• Virginia Commonwealth University• College of William & Mary• George Washington University• Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)• EDUCAUSE• Georgetown University• Gallaudet University

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Maryland, Virginia, DCArea Members

Corporations• Community of Science, Inc.• Sprint• WorldCom• Verizon Communications• Teleglobe Communications Corporation• Cable & Wireless• Advanced Infrastructure Ventures• Multicast Technologies, Inc.• Velocita Communications• Accord Networks• C-SPAN• Blackboard, Inc.

Affiliates• Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc.

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Corporate Labs with Internet2 Backbone Network Access

Alcatel/USAAventisBoeing Phantom WorksFord ResearchFujitsu Labs of AmericaIBM Research (2 sites)Johnson & Johnson Research (3 sites)Microsoft ResearchMotorola LabsPfizer

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Corporate Membership

Reasons for corporate engagement in Internet2

•Access to high-performance network environment

•Engagement with leading-edge academic networking community

•Practical experience with developing and deploying new network technologies and applications

•Positive association with Internet2® brand

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Asia-PacificAAIREP (Australia)APAN (Asia-Pacific)APAN-KR (Korea)APRU (Asia-Pacific)CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)JAIRC (Japan)JUCC (Hong Kong)NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand)SingAREN (Singapore)TAnet2 (Taiwan)

International MoU Partners

AmericasCANARIE (Canada)CUDI (Mexico)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP2 (Brazil)SENACYT (Panama)

Europe-Middle EastARNES (Slovenia)BELNET (Belgium)CARNET (Croatia)CESnet (Czech Republic)DANTE (Europe)DFN-Verein (Germany)GIP RENATER (France)GRNET (Greece)HEAnet (Ireland)HUNGARNET (Hungary)INFN-GARR (Italy)Israel-IUCC (Israel)NORDUnet (Nordic Countries)POL-34 (Poland)RCCN (Portugal)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxembourg)Stichting SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)TERENA (Europe)JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)

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Chief ExecutiveOfficer

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FinanceHuman ResourcesTechnical Support

Exec. Secretary

Exec. Assistant

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ChiefEngineer

CorporateRelations

InternationalRelations

E2E Performance

Communications

MiddlewareInitiative

MemberActivities

NetworkInfrastructure

Board ofTrusteesBoard ofTrustees

VPExternalRelations

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Operations

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Internet2 Organization

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Internet2 Focus Areas

Advanced Applications

Middleware

Engineering

Advanced Network Infrastructure

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Internet2 Applications

What are “I2 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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Advanced Applications

Goals•Understand and communicate applications requirements

•Facilitate collaboration of key user communities

•Help develop key apps components where needed

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Different Disciplines/Contexts

SciencesArtsHumanitiesHealth careBusiness/LawAdministration…

LibraryClassroomClinicOfficeLaboratoryDorm room…

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Application Attributes

Interactive collaboration

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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Advanced Applications

Distance Education

Master music classes

University of Oklahoma

Columbia University

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Advanced Applications

Remote Access to Scientific Instruments

Mauna Kea Observatories

AURA

University of Hawaii

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Advanced Applications

Virtual Laboratories

Space Physics & Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC)

University of Michigan

National Science Foundation

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Advanced Applications

Shared Virtual Reality

CVD

Alliance

Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-

Chicago

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Advanced Applications

Tele-medicine

Distributed Real-time, 3-D MRI

Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center

Images courtesy Univ. of Illinois-

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Digital Video

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Digital Video Applications

Up to broadcast quality videoconferencing

Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content

HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …

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The Internet2 Commons

An effort to encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community

• Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration

• Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning

• For Internet2 members and their international partners

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What is Middleware?

Specialized networked services shared by applications and users

• Permit scaling of applications and networks

• Take the complexity out of application integration

Second layer of the IT infrastructure, above the network

Where technology meets policy

What network designers and applications developers each do not want to do!

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Core vs. Upper/Network

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Middleware

Network-based services supporting applications

• Authentication

• Identification

• Authorization

• Directories

• Security

Commercial efforts• Microsoft’s .NET

• Liberty Alliance

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Why Middleware?

Internet2 goal•Provide environment in which new/advanced applications can be developed and used

Middleware is the next layer of infrastructure that needs to be taken for granted by applications developers

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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

Focus on core middleware as infrastructureInteroperability

• 190 universities will never buy the same software

Getting stuff implemented• Best practices

Integrate into campus infrastructure• Discourage ‘islands’ of middleware infrastructure• E.g., core middleware just for this grid project

Enable community to share resources• Grid, remote instruments, shared classes

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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

Advisory Groups• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education• Early Harvest and Early Adopters

Projects• Internet2 PKI Labs

– AT&T– Dartmouth College– University of Wisconsin

• Shibboleth– IBM/Tivoli

• Directory of Directories for Higher Education– Georgetown University– Sun Microsystems

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Shibboleth Project

Goal: Support inter-institutional sharing of resourcesFocus: Authenticate locally for access to shared, licensed resources at another campusScenario: Student at Stanford taking class at MIT need to access licensed materials (journals) at MIT for classBottom line: MIT doesn’t issue new userid/password, trusts Stanford authentication

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Shibboleth Progress

Beta testing with a few schools in February

Code will be available this summer• IBM supporting coding effort

• Open source implementation

Leverages existing campus authentication processes/software

Ultimately develop ‘Club Shib’ – group of universities in trust relationship

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Internet2 Backbone Network:Abilene

Established and run by and for Internet2 members2.4 gigabits per second207 participating institutionsReaches 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto RicoSponsored participation

• 37 individual institutions• 18 state education networks

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Internet2 Backbone Networks

Image Courtesy of:Donna Cox and

Robert Patterson, NCSA

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Downloading a DVD Using Internet2 Network Infrastructure

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Internet2 NetworkInfrastructure - Overview

Campus

Regional / State

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Backbone•vBNS

•Abilene

International Connections

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Network Architecture

Internet2 InterconnectCloud

GigaPoPOne

Regional Network

University C

CommercialInternetConnections

University B

University A

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Abilene Background and Milestones

Abilene is a UCAID project in partnership with• Qwest Communications (SONET & DWDM service)• Nortel Networks (SONET kit)• Cisco Systems (routers)• Indiana University (network operations)• ITECs in North Carolina and Ohio (test and evaluation)

Timeline• Apr 1988: Project announced at White House• Jan 1999: Production status for network• Oct 1999: IP version of HDTV (215 Mbps) over Abilene• Apr 2001: First state education network added• Jun 2001: Participation reaches all 50 states & D.C.• Nov 2001: Raw HDTV/IP (1.5 Gbps) over Abilene

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Future of Abilene

Original UCAID/Qwest MoU amended on October 1, 2001Extension of Qwest’s original commitment to Abilene for another 5 years – 10/01/2006

• Originally expired March, 2003

Upgrade of Abilene backbone to optical transport capability - ’s

• X4 increase in the core backbone bandwidth– OC-48c SONET (2.5 Gbps) to 10-Gbps DWDM

• Capability for flexible provisioning of ’s to support future point-to-point experimentation and other projects

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OperationsStabilitySafety / securityUnit cost / efficiency

Business SolutionsCost savingsRevenue enhancingCustomer satisfaction / quality

Preparing for the FutureResearchCompetency / capacity buildingIdentifying trends & connecting them with

business opportunities and challenges

CIO’s Top Three Areas of Concern and Internet2

Relevance Area of Concern

Source:

Marv Adams, CIO

Ford Motor Company

Source:

Marv Adams, CIO

Ford Motor Company

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Scanning &

Tracking

IP Management

Ecosystem Management

R&D

Technology Strategy and Governance

Technology Portfolio

Management

Internal/external research and development (R&D) leading to new technologies and their uses; does not include incremental or core business product related R&D

Management of participants in an ecosystem to spur idea generation and innovation

Management approaches and capabilities to maximize value through rapidly changing technologies and technology-based innovation

Management of investments in a portfolio of new technologies and technology-based ideas that have potential for value creation

Active management of a firm’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio to enhance shareholder value

A rigorous process of searching/ tracking new technologies and of generating innovative ideas through their singular or combined application

Source: Accenture

Proactive Information Technology Management

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Practically Speaking…

The system of collectively learning and altering our environment is very fragmented today in most institutions

Yet, these are the likely eventual realities:• Inexpensive, widely available high communications

bandwidth

• Other emerging technologies that, when combined with bandwidth, will enable breakthroughs

• Tomorrow’s survivors will be continuously learning and taking advantage of technological advances

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Work of Internet2

Member-focused

Member-led

Internet2 staff provide central staff

Work with other organizations in networking (IETF, Educause, ISOC)

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Initiatives and Working Groups

Working Groups•Multicast•VoIP…

Initiatives•End-to-End Network Performance•Digital Video…

Projects•Shibboleth•Abilene…

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Meetings and Workshops

National Meetings

Technical Workshops

Virtual Briefings

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Support Framework

Document library

Newsletter

Discussion lists

Calendar

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