Internet2: directions for 1999 and opportunities for collaboration with NGI
Doug Van Houweling
LSN Meeting
9 February 1999
Internet2 Project Goals
Enable new generation of applications
Re-create leading edge R&E network
capability
Transfer capability to the global
production Internet
Progress
2.5 years ago:Internet2 Project formedOctober 1996
1.5 year ago: UCAID IncorporatedOctober 1997
10 months ago:Abilene LaunchedApril 1998
Today 141 universities 47 corporations 7 gigapops connected to vBNS Abilene in service w/ 20 institutions
connected Abilene peering with vBNS, ESnet QoS -- QBone initiative launched Middleware initiative launched
UCAID Member Universities141 Members as of January 1999
University of Puerto Rico not shown
Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com Advanced Network &
Services AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM ITC^DeltaCom
3Com Advanced Network &
Services AT&T Cabletron Systems Cisco Systems FORE IBM ITC^DeltaCom
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
StarBurst Communications
Lucent Technologies
MCI Worldcom
Newbridge Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
StarBurst Communications
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
Bell South Packet Engines SBC Technology
Resources StorageTek Torrent
Technologies
Internet2 Corporate Members Alcatel Telecom Ameritech Apple Computer AppliedTheory Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecom Compaq/DEC Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD
Alcatel Telecom Ameritech Apple Computer AppliedTheory Bell Atlantic Bellcore British Telecom Compaq/DEC Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu GTE Internetworking Hitachi IXC Communications KDD
Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Telebeam Teleglobe Williams
Communications
Nexabit Networks Nokia Research Center Novell NTT Multimedia Pacific Bell RR Donnelley Siemens Sprint Sun Microsystems Sylvan Learning Telebeam Teleglobe Williams
Communications
Abilene
Fall 1998: Demonstrated network at member meeting
January 1999: Abilene in full service• peering with: vBNS, ESnet
By December 1999: around 65 institutions connected
Abilene NetworkFebruary 1999
Cleve
land
New York
Atlanta
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Houston
Denver
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Seattle
Abilene Router Node
Abilene Access Node
Operational January 1999
Planned 1999
Middleware Initiative Objective: a “Services Rich” Network
Environment Functional services available to users and
developers• Enabling new collaborations and applications• Supported as production quality• An integrated framework
Scaled to the size of the research and education community
Applications: Horizontal, Vertical, Spot Solutions
Middleware:Security, Directory, Quality of Service,Audio/Video Frameworks, Accounting,Collaboration Frameworks, Multicast
Operating system and network services
Standard APIs
Standard APIs
Interoperable Protocols
Technology Scope
QoS Digital video/audio Security Collaboration Directories Multicast File systems Measurement Remote instruments IMS
Transaction systems Meta-computing Management IP telephony Accounting/billing E-commerce Object brokers Search mechanisms Printing
Avoiding BalkanizationPhysics
Applications
PhysicsQoS
Digital LibraryApplications
Digital LibraryQoS
InstructionalApplications
InstructionalQoS
Data MiningApplications
Data MiningQoS
TCP/IP Network
PhysicsSecurity
PhysicsDirectories
PhysicsStorage
Digital LibrarySecurity
Digital LibraryDirectories
Digital LibraryStorage
InstructionalSecurity
InstructionalDirectories
InstructionalStorage
Data MiningSecurity
Data MiningDirectories
Data MiningStorage
Initiative Overview
Deliverables
•Identification of a small number of key community projects
•Information dissemination•Demos •Workshops
Principles
Focus on problems where
•We have a unique incentive to solve
•The benefit to our community is clear and compelling
•Results are attainable in a reasonable timeframe
QBone Initiative
An interdomain testbed for differentiated services
Goals:• Grow a snowball of interoperable DiffServ clouds• Grow a community of participants• Foster pre-standards interoperability• Collaborate to solve problems and share
experiences
Initial participants have been identified and met in several cases
Initial Participants
•Abilene •CAnet*2•iCAIR Consortium
APAN, CTIT, EVL, Indiana University, MREN, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, SingAREN (Backbone network), STAR TAP, SURFnet (Backbone network), TransPAC (Backbone interconnect)
Initial Participants - cont’d• IPPM Surveyor Project•Merit / University of Michigan•NCNI - North Carolina Network Initiative•NREN•NYSERNet•PSC / NLANR / CMU•Texas A&M University / Texas GigaPoP•UMN•UPenn/ UMass•vBNS
Internet2 International Collaborations
Building peer to peer relationships
Looking for similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
Signed: CANARIE, Stichting SURF, NORDUnet, TERENA*, SingAREN, JAIRC
In process: UK, Italy, Germany, France
International collaborations cont’d
Network interconnection• Interconnection at STAR TAP (CAnetII,
SURFnet, NORDUnet, SingAREN underway)• Second interconnection directly with
Abilene (NY - NORDUnet, SURFnet) Specific project collaboration
• QBone (e.g. SURFnet an initial participant)• middleware• research/learning applications
Next Steps
Continue to interconnect member desktops and servers at high speed
Continue to support advanced applications development• focus on multi-campus implementations
Adopt, develop and implement • QoS end-to-end• middleware end-to-end• new business models
Internet2 and NGI collaboration
JET• Internet2 participation (Guy Almes, Paul Love)• JET + I2 Topology WG joint meetings: NGIX
HPNAT• Internet2 participation (Ted Hanss)
Internet2 Working Groups• NGI network or agency participation in
Internet2 WGs: IPv6, QoS, Measurement, Routing, Topology
I2-NGI cont’d Abilene
• NSF HPNSP network serving HPC awardees Network interconnection
• Abilene and vBNS peering• Abilene and ESnet peering• Abilene and vBNS at Chicago NGIX
Demonstrations• cross-participation in Oct97, Mar98, Apr98
demonstrations at Highway 1
I2-NGI collaboration cont’d
Are there other opportunities for collaboration?• Engaging researchers on campus• greater collaboration in identifying
and developing applications We’re interested in discussing!
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