Internet2 Douglas Van Houweling President & CEO, UCAID ACUTA Annual Conference 19 July 1999 Computers on the Internet 50.0 40.0 Millions of Computers 30.0 20.0 10.0 Internet Domain Survey 99 19 98 19 97 19 96 19 95 19 94 19 Source: 19 93 - People on the Internet 250.0 200.0 Millions of People 150.0 100.0 50.0 Source: Nua Internet Surveys 00 20 99 19 98 19 97 19 96 19 19 95 - 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 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 … Administration … 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 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 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 www.internet2.edu info@internet2.edu DVH@Internet2.edu TM www.internet2.edu