Chair, Applications Strategy Council

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Internet2
Douglas Van Houweling
President & CEO, UCAID
ACUTA Annual Conference
19 July 1999
Computers on the Internet
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Internet Domain Survey
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People on the Internet
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Internet Economy
Facts and Figures
 64 Million US Adult Regular Users
 Seven new people every second
 $301 Billion in 1998 revenue
 Doubling every 9 months
 Internet Advertising generated $1.92
billion in 1998
Sources:
Internet Indicators, Internet Advertising Bureau
Yesterday’s Internet
 Thousands of users
 Remote login, file transfer
 Applications capitalize on underlying
technology
Today’s Internet
 Millions of users
 Web, email, low-quality audio & video
 Applications adapt to underlying
technology
Tomorrow’s Internet
 Billions of users and devices
 Convergence of today’s applications
and services
 New technologies enable
unanticipated applications (and
create new challenges)
Commercialization
Privatization
21st Century
Networking
Interoperable,
High Performance
Research &Education
Networks
SprintLink
InternetMCI
US Govt.
Networks
ANS
ARPAnet
Active
Wireless
DWDM
Research and
Development
NSFNET
gigabit
testbeds
Quality of Service
(QoS)
Internet2, Abilene, vBNS
Advanced US Govt.
Networks
Partnerships
Internet2 Universities
159 Members as of July 1999
University of Puerto Rico not shown
University of Puerto Rico not shown
Board of Trustees
 David Ward, (Chair, Board of Trustees) University of
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Wisconsin
Henry S. Bienen, Northwestern University
William G. Bowen, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Molly Corbett Broad, University of North Carolina
Larry R. Faulkner, University of Texas at Austin
Steven B. Sample, University of Southern California
Graham B. Spanier, Pennsylvania State University
Eric Bloch, (Chair, Industry Strategy Council)
Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Chair, Applications Strategy Council)
James Bruce, MIT
(Chair, Networking Policy and Planning Advisory Council)
David Meyer, Cisco & Univ. of Oregon
(Chair, Networking Research Liaison Council )
Douglas E. Van Houweling
Internet2 Goals
 Enable new generation of
applications
 Re-create leading edge R&E network
capability
 Transfer technology and experience
to the global production Internet
Enabling advanced
applications...
Advanced Applications
 Digital Libraries
 Virtual Laboratories
 Collaboration
 Visualization and virtual reality
 All of the above in combination
Many Disciplines and Contexts
 Sciences
 Instruction
 Arts
 Collaboration
 Humanities
 Streaming video
 Health care
 Distributed
 Business/Law
computation
 Data mining
 Virtual reality
 Digital libraries
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 Administration
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Digital Libraries
 Informedia Project
 Carnegie Mellon
University
Digital Libraries
 Television News
Archive
 Vanderbilt
University
Virtual Laboratories
 Distributed
nanoManipulator
 University of North
Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Virtual Laboratories
 Real-time 3-D
Brain Mapping
 University of
Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh
Supercomputing
Center
Collaborations
 Link instruments,
data sources,
researchers and
students
The CAVE
Source: University of Illinois-Chicago
Teleimmersion
 Virtural
Temporal Bone
 University of
Illinois at
Chicago
Images courtesy
Univ. of IllinoisChicago
Distributed Computation
 Large-scale
computation
 University
Corporation
for
Atmospheric
Research
Image courtesy of UCAR
Re-creating leading edge
networking capabilities...
Applications and Engineering
Enables
Networked
Applications
Network
Engineering
Motivate
Initiatives
 Quality of Service: QBone
• www.internet2.edu/qbone
 Multicast
 Distributed Storage: I2-DSI
• dsi.internet2.edu
 Digital Video: I2-DV
 I2MI: GlueWorks
• www.internet2.edu/middleware
Internet2 GigaPoPs
Abilene Network
Seattle
New York
Sacramento
Denver
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Abilene Router Node
Abilene Access Node
Operational January 1999
Planned 1999
Houston
Abilene Characteristics
 2.4 Gbps (OC48) capacity today
 13,000+ miles of circuits
 70+ universities connected by end of
1999
 Interconnects with other national
R&E networks
 Built on contributions from Qwest,
Nortel, Cisco, and Indiana Univ.
Transferring technology and
experience...
Internet2 Corporate Partners
 3Com
 Lucent Technologies
 Advanced Network &
 MCI Worldcom
Services
 Microsoft
 Ameritech
 Newbridge Networks
 AT&T
 Nortel Networks
 Cabletron Systems
 Packet Engines
 Cisco Systems
 FORE Systems
 IBM
 ITC^Deltacom
 Qwest
Communications
 StarBurst
 WCI Cable
 Xylan
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
 Bell South
 Compaq
 Ericsson (formerly Torrent
Networking Technologies)
 Litton Network Access Systems
 Novell
 SBC Technology Resources
 StorageTek
Internet2 Corporate Members
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Alcatel Telecom
Apple Computer
AppliedTheory Communications
Bell Atlantic
British Telecom
Deutsche Telekom
Fujitsu Laboratories of America
GTE Internetworking
Hitachi
IXC Communications
KDD
Motorola
Nexabit Networks
Nokia Research Center
NTT Multimedia
Pacific Bell
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Project OXYGEN
RR Donnelley
Siemens
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Sylvan Learning
Tachyon
Telcordia Technologies (formerly
Bellcore)
Telebeam
Teleglobe
TransMedia Communications
VTEL
Williams
Communications Grp.
Worldport
Communications Inc.
Technology Transfer
Conduits
 Collaborating on advanced
applications
 Deploying pre-commercial
infrastructure and protocols
 Establishing expertise and human
capital
Innovating to Close the Gap
More
hype
technological
potential
Performance
reality gap
actual
performance
Less
Time
Network Convergence
 Common bearer service (IP)
 End to end capability
 Applications driven
 Media types integrated for natural
interpersonal interaction
Ubiquitous Connectivity
 Steadily lower prices
 Task-specific and everyday devices
 Machine-to-machine network traffic
 Nomadic connections
Unanticipated Innovation
 Lesson of the Web
 Network growth and value are non-
linear
 New technologies enable
qualitatively different uses
 Users become innovators
Higher Education Leadership
 Virtual organizations
 Distributed management
 Global reach
 Intangible value for the knowledge
economy
 Collaboration with industry &
government to push the frontier
together
For More Internet2 Information
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 info@internet2.edu
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