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Internet2 Overview
Ann Doyle
Manager, Arts & Humanities Initiatives
October 26, 2001
Topics
Organization
International Opportunities
Abilene Network
Applications
Arts and Humanities Initiatives
Organization
Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network
applications and technologies for research
and higher education, accelerating the
creation of tomorrow’s internet.
Internet2 Members
188 universities (yellow dots)
70 corporations
40 non-profits and gov’t labs
Internet2 Membership
Regular
•US institutions of higher education
Corporate
•Members
•Sponsors
•Partners
Affiliate
•Non-profit and other research or
education organizations
International Opportunities
International Connectivity
International MOU Partners
•Over 30 networks in countries around the
world
•Memoranda of Understanding are
established with international networking
organizations that share Internet2’s goals
and objectives
•MOU’s define the interconnection
agreements between these networks and
Abilene
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)
Abilene Network
Abilene Network
Seattle
Partners:
Qwest
Cisco
Nortel
Indiana Univ
Chicago
Sunnyvale
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
New
York
Cleveland
Denver Indianapolis
Washington
Washington,
DC
Kansas City
Atlanta
Houston
- Today: OC48 Packet over Sonet, multicast, IPv4 & IPv6,
quality of service (DiffServ)
Network Architecture
I2 Interconnect
Cloud
GigaPoP
One
GigaPoP
Two
vBNS+ (Worldcom)
and
Abilene
GigaPoP
Three
GigaPoP
Four
“Gigabit capacity point of presence” an
aggregation point for regional connectivity
GigaPoPs, cont.
Engineering Objectives
Deploy a leading edge production network
for applications R&D
• OC48 (2.4gigabits/second) backbone
• Campus links at up to OC48
Support advanced features
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Multicast
• IPv6
Project Team
Overall direction by Internet2, with
• Qwest Corporation
• Nortel
• Cisco Systems
• Indiana University
Applications
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
Different Disciplines/Contexts
Sciences
Library
Arts
Classroom
Humanities
Clinic
Health care
Office
Business/Law
Laboratory
Administration
Dorm room
…
…
Application Attributes
Interactive research
collaboration and
instruction
Real-time access to
remote resources
Attributes, cont.
Large-scale, multisite computation and
data mining
Shared virtual
reality
Any combination of
the above
Arts and Humanities
Initiatives
Variations
Indiana University
Variations
Recording Studio that Spans
a Continent
University of Southern California
McGill University
McGill University
Twelve
uncompressed highquality audio channels
streamed over Abilene
and CA*net3
USC
engineers
mixed the audio for a
live audience in LA
http://ww2.mcgill.ca/icc/canarie/
A Real-time Visualization
System for Large Scale Urban
Environments
UCLA
Source: UCLA Urban Simulation Team
Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation
Visual History Foundation
A 180 terabyte,
multimedia archive of
Holocaust testimonies

Plans are to
disseminate the
archive to museums
and educational
institutions using
Internet2 networks

http://www.vhf.org/
Virtual Rooms
Videoconferencing System
Caltech and CERN
Caltech and CERN
Worldwide videoconferencing service
and collaborative
environment


Web-based system
Averages 100
multipoint worldwide
sessions each month

http://www.vrvs.org/
Teleimmersion
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois-NCSA
Old Dominion University
The CAVE
Immersadesk
Distributed nanoManipulator
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Live Performances
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
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.
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/
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
More Info ...
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adoyle@internet2.edu
apps.internet2.edu/talks/
Ann Doyle
Internet2
3025 Boardwalk Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
+1.734.352.7011
www.internet2.edu