Internet2: Implications for Higher Education

1. Internet2:Implications for Higher Education Douglas Van HouwelingPresident & CEO -- UCAID

2. Overview • History • Today’s Internet • Barriers to Progress • Internet2 • Advanced Internet Projects • Applications • Network Requirements and Abilene • Implications • Comments & Questions

3. History • ARPAnet origins • 1987 -- NSFnet • Privatization in 1995 • Higher ed planning in 1995/1996 • Are our research and education needs being met by today’s internet?

4. Today’s Internet • Growing at 10 - 15% per month • Challenges to higher education • The “world wide wait” • Human interaction awkward • Virtual meetings and seminars • Shared authoring • Browsing publications • Distributed large scale computing and data base efforts not feasible

5. Today’s Internet • Inadequate for mission-critical applications • Authentication • “Best efforts” not good enough • Intranets and Extranets instead • Match capacity and demand • Provide a more secure environment • Don’t reach the public at large, though!

6. Barriers to Progress • Providers swamped attempting to match capacity to demand • Advanced applications can’t be deployed • No large scale development environment available • Negative-sum competitive environment inhibits investment

7. Commercialization Privatization 21st Century Interoperable Networking High Performance SprintLink Research &Education InternetMCI Networks Agency Networks ANS ARPAnet NSFNET Active gigabit Nets testbeds wireless Internet2, Abilene, vBNS WDM ESNET, NREN, DREN Quality of Service (QoS) Research and Development Partnerships

8. The Establishment of Internet2 • 10/96 -- I2 organizing meeting • 34 institutions signed up • Membership commitment • $25,000/year in membership dues • I2 connectivity and campus upgrades • 9/97 -- University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development • Home of Internet2 and Abilene • Offices in Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, MI

9. UCAID Organization & Budget • University CEO’s are voting representatives for regular members • Structured as an agile organization capable of responding to rapid change. • 4 Councils with Board seats • Applications • Policy & Operations • Network Research • Industry • Member dues provide income base

10. UCAID Board • Chair -- David Ward -- Chancellor, University of Wisconsin/Madison • Henry Bienen -- President, Northwestern University • William Bowen -- President, Mellon Foundation • Molly Corbett Broad -- President, University of North Carolina • Larry Faulkner -- President, University of Texas/Austin • Steven Sample -- President, University of Southern California • Graham Spanier -- President, Penn State University • Gary Augustson -- Chair, Network Planning and Policy Council • Tom DiFanti -- Chair, Applications Strategy Council • Larry Landweber -- Chair, Network Research Liaison Council • Doug Van Houweling -- President and CEO

11. Internet2 Project Goals • Enable new generation of applications • Re-create leading edge R&E network capability • Transfer capability to the global production Internet

12. Internet2 Universities133 as of September 1998 University of Puerto Rico not shown

13. 3Com Advanced Network & Services, Inc. AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM Lucent Technologies MCI Worldcom Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks Qwest Communications StarBurst Communications Internet2 Corporate Partners

14. Bell South Packet Engines SBC Technology Resources StorageTek Torrent Technologies Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

15. Alcatel Telecom Ameritech Apple Computers AppliedTheory Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecom Deutsche Telekom GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint StorageTek Sun Microsystems SylvanLearning Telebeam Williams Communications Internet2 Corporate Members

16. Internet2 GigaPoPs

17. Advanced InternetProjects • Next Generation Internet (NGI) • Focused on: • Federal mission agency needs • Maintaining US Internet leadership • Internet2 • Focused on: • Higher education needs • Moving the public Internet to the next level

18. Advanced InternetProjects • The whole is greater than the sum of the parts • NGI provides partial financial support for university Internet2 projects • Internet2 and NGI coordinate technology development and deployment • Industry has strong incentive to implement resulting capabilities

19. Advanced Internet Benefits • Richer content through higher bandwidth • Video, audio • Virtual reality • Dynamic not static • More interactivity via minimal delay • Reliable content delivery through quality of service model

20. Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering

21. Internet2 Applications • Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of: • Research • Teaching • Learning • Require advanced networking

22. Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration … Instruction Collaboration Streaming video Distributed computation Data mining Virtual reality Digital libraries … Many Disciplines and Contexts

23. Interactive research collaboration and instruction Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Application Attributes Images courtesy of the University of Michigan

24. Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above Attributes, cont. Images courtesy of Old Dominion University and Univ of Illinois-Chicago

25. American Sign Language and English Captions Gallaudet University Georgetown University

27. Remote Scanning Electron Microscope University of Michigan

28. PhilipsXL30

30. Distributed Image SpreadSheet University of Missouri-Columbia

32. 3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action” University of Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

34. Upper AtmosphericResearch Collaboratory University of Michigan

38. Shared virtual reality University of Illinois at ChicagoVirtual Temporal Bone Teleimmersion Images courtesy Univ of Illinois-Chicago

39. Globally InterconnectedObject Databases California Institute of Technology

41. Real-Time RemoteSurgical Collaboration Ohio State University

43. GeoWorlds USC/ISI

45. Middleware Challenges • Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable • Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a pre-commercial production environment • Examples: • Distributed storage • Video tools • QoS implementation

46. Engineering Objectives • Deploy a production network to support applications R&D • Establish quality of service (QoS) • Support native multicast • Establish gigaPoPs as effective service points

47. Abilene Project • Complement vBNS Internet2 backbone • Provide advanced network testbed • Support Internet2 applications development • Demonstrate next generation operational and quality of service capabilities • Create facilities for network research

48. Abilene Router Node Abilene Access Node Operational January 1999 Planned 1999 Abilene NetworkJanuary 1999 Seattle Cleveland New York Sacramento Denver Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles Atlanta Houston

49. Abilene Characteristics • 2.4 Gbps (OC48) among gigaPoPs, increasing to 9.6 Gbps (OC192) • Connections at 622 Mbps (OC12) or 155 Mbps (OC3) • IP over Sonet technology • Access PoPs very close to almost all of the anticipated university gigaPoPs

50. Abilene Schedule • Spring 1998: enrollment discussions with members • Fall 1998: Demonstation and pre-production • January 1999: Initial group of around 30 members connected • 1999: Other members connected as mutually planned