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Research and Education Networking in the United States: Looking Back and Visioning the Future

Research and Education Networking in the United States: Looking Back and Visioning the Future. Douglas E. Van Houweling President & CEO Internet2. APAN 24 th Meeting Xi’an, China August 31, 2007. Overview. Where we have been, and why Where we are today Organization Technology

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Research and Education Networking in the United States: Looking Back and Visioning the Future

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  1. Research and Education Networking in the United States: Looking Back and Visioning the Future Douglas E. Van Houweling President & CEO Internet2 APAN 24th Meeting Xi’an, China August 31, 2007

  2. Overview • Where we have been, and why • Where we are today • Organization • Technology • The future NREN for the USA

  3. APAN and Internet2 • APAN and Internet2 partnership since June 1999 • Joined meetings in 2001, 2004, 2008 • Extensive APAN participation in Internet2 Member Meetings • Connectivity between Internet2 network infrastructure and APAN • TransPAC2 project and APAN member country networks • TransPAC/Indiana University and US Pacific Consortium as Associate Members

  4. History & Background • ARPANet • 1987– NSFNet • 1990 -- Advanced Network and Services (ANS) • 1994 -- WWW • 1994 -- Commercialization • 1997 -- Next Generation Internet Initiative & Internet2

  5. NSFNET • 1986 56 kb connections for supercomputing centers • 1987 NSF Cooperative Agreement • Merit, IBM, MCI, Michigan partnership • 1988 T1 in production • 15% monthly growth • 1990 T1 link to Europe • 1990 ANS T3 in production • 1995 Commercialization

  6. Today’s Internet • Growing at 10 - 15% per month • Capacity lags applications • The “world wide wait” • Human interaction awkward • Internet telephony • Video conferencing • Shared authoring • Distributed large scale computing and data base efforts impossible

  7. Today’s Internet • Mission-critical applications seldom pursued on the public Internet • 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!

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

  9. 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

  10. Internet II -- Objectives • Response to Research & Education Needs • Applications Innovation & Demonstration • Reliable, Broadband Desktop to Desktop Connectivity • Intercampus • Intracampus • Higher Education Control • Transparent Interface to the Commodity Internet • Rapid Transfer to Commercial Sector

  11. Internet2 Universities209 University Members as of August 2007

  12. ACUTA Altarum American Distance Education Consortium Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) CERN Charles R. Drew University Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland Museum of Art Coalition for Networked Information Desert Research Institute EDUCAUSE ESnet Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS) Inter-American Development Bank Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The Library of Congress Los Alamos National Laboratory Manhattan School of Music NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Marshall Space Flight Center National Archives and Records Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Geographic National Institutes of Health NOAA – Washington, D.C. National Science Foundation New World Symphony NIST Oak Ridge National Laboratory OSTN (Open Student Television Network) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ruth Lily Health Education Center SURA TOPIX U.S. Census Bureau United Nations System of Organizations United States Antarctic Program United States Dept. of Commerce Boulder Labs United States Holocaust Memorial Museum University Corporation for Atmospheric Research University of North Carolina General Administration The World Bank Internet2 Affiliate Members

  13. Strengthening Community:Reviewing Internet2 Governance • Governance and Nominations Committee was charged by Internet2 Board of Trustees • Key areas of focus: • New Research & Education Network Membership Category • Board composition: CIOs, researchers, and state/regional networking organizations • Advisory Council-Board interactions and priority setting • Transparency of decision-making • Recommendations adopted by the Board • Nominations and elections complete • 60 individuals from US will begin service in October

  14. The Crucial Role of the RONs

  15. 3ROX CEN CENIC CIC OmniPoP CPE FLR GPN Indiana GigaPoP KanREN LEARN LONI MAGPI MAX MCNC Merit Network MOREnet MREN NJEDge.Net Northern Lights GigaPoP NOX NYSERNet OARnet OneNet OSCnet OSHEAN Pacific Northwest GigaPoP PeachNet SOX UEN WiscNet Internet2 R&E Network Members

  16. State Education Networks Connected to Internet2

  17. Internet2 Corporate Partners

  18. Arbor Networks Campus Televideo Codian, Inc. Foundry Networks inSORS Integrated Communications Polycom Worldwide RADVISION TANDBERG VBrick Systems Internet2 Corporate Sponsors

  19. ADVA Optical Networking Apparent Networks Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. C-SPAN Caterpillar, Inc. Cdigix Cedar Point Communications Comcast Cable Communications CommuniGate Systems EBSCO Information Services Education Networks of America, Inc. Fujitsu Laboratories of America Global Crossing Google HaiVision Systems, Inc. Johnson & Johnson KDDI Corporation LifeSize Communications Lucent Technologies Media Links, Inc. Napster, LLC Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) Northrop Grumman Information Technology OCLC Online Computer Library Center OpVista, Inc. RIAA Red Hat, Inc. Ruckus Network, Inc. Schlumberger Steelcase, Inc. The Thomson Corporation Verizon Business Video Furnace, Inc. VoEx, Inc Warner Bros. Internet2 Corporate Members

  20. Asia-Pacific Americas AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) ANF (Korea) CERNET/CSTNET/ NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) MYREN/MDeC (Malaysia) NECTEC/UNINET (Thailand) PERN (Pakistan) REANNZ (New Zealand) SingAREN (Singapore) NCHC/TANet (Taiwan) CANARIE (Canada) CEDIA (Ecuador)CLARA (Latin America & Caribbean) CNTI (Venezuela) CR2NET (Costa Rica) CUDI (Mexico) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Internet2 International Partners Europe Africa MCIT [EUN/ENSTINET] (Egypt) TENET (South Africa) ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) FCCN (Portugal) GARR (Italy) GIP- RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) PSNC/PIONER (Poland) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET (Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) Middle East Etisalat University College (UAE) Israel-IUCC (Israel) Qatar Foundation (Qatar) South Asia ERNET/CDAC (India)

  21. Internet2 International Partners

  22. Summary • Internet2 started October 1996 • From 34 to over 200 universities today • 50+ other research and non-profit institutions • From United Nations to Lawrence Berkeley Labs to the New World Symphony • 50+ for profit companies • 30 state and regional R&E networks • Primary, secondary schools, museums, libraries, healthcare institutions through Sponsored Educational Group Participants (SEGP) • More than 50 international partners

  23. Summary • Internet2 • Provides a high-performance network environment for the US research and education community • optimized to meet the needs of research, teaching, learning, clinical and outreach missions of that community • Enables the development and deployment of new network, middleware and applications technologies, services and protocols • Draws the community together to support these efforts

  24. Strengthening Community:Supporting member engagement • Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE) • Salsa: Security Advisory Group • K20 Initiative Advisory Committee • Health Sciences Advisory Group • Arts & Humanities Advisory Groups • Working Groups • Special Interest Groups

  25. Internet2 – National LambdaRail • Planned merger • 3/9/2007 Memorandum of Agreement • 4/23/2007 Merger Planning Team (MPT) appointed • 5/10/2007 Network Planning Team report • 8/23/07 MPT Definitive Agreement Proposal • 8/28/07 Internet2 Board approval • 8/30/07 NLR Board discussion • Scope of the combined organizations • Consolidated network infrastructure • Brings regional and national organizations together

  26. Technology • Network • Middleware • Applications • Community • Collaboratively enabling US cyberinfrastructure

  27. Developing the new Internet2 Network The design and development of the new Internet2 Network was driven by community input. • Group A Report • Internet2 Community Design Workshop • Network Advisory Group • Network Technical Advisory Council • One-on-one outreach to regional networking organizations • Intensified discipline-specific support

  28. A New Networking Model

  29. A New Networking Model

  30. A New Networking Model

  31. New Internet2 Network Objectives • Ensure community control of underlying network infrastructure • Leverage capabilities of a global telecommunications leader • Carrier class reliability and expanded breadth of services • Capitalize on latest technology in networking • Create an asset that benefits entire community • Researchers, universities, regional optical networks, industry, government, K-12, and the international community

  32. Internet2 Network Characteristics • Hybrid optical and IP network • Dynamic and static wavelength services • Fiber, equipment dedicated to Internet2; Level 3 Communications maintains network and service level • Simultaneous support of diverse requirements • experimental projects • production services

  33. New Internet2 Network Capacities • Initial capacity 10 x previous network • 10 wavelengths at 10 Gbps each • Future capacity nearly unlimited • 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps wavelength capabilities • Unlimited additional wavelengths available • Rapid provisioning of dedicated circuits • Flexibly-sized circuit capacity

  34. Internet2 Network Internet2 Network Optical Switching Node Level3 Regen Site Internet2 Redundant Drop/Add Site ESnet Drop/Add Site

  35. Coordinating Across Geographic Scales

  36. Advanced R&E Networking:Networking Capabilities TODAY • Megabit-per-second bandwidth • IP-based services • Campus-focused middleware • Loose coordination across networks TOMORROW • Gigabit-per-second bandwidth • IP-based and Dynamic Circuit (DC) services • Inter-domain middleware • High coordination across networks

  37. Integrated Systems Model

  38. Middleware Infrastructure • Focus: • Inter-institutional collaboration • Scalable authenticated/authorized access to remote resources • Internet2 role: • Defining/creating architecture: Shibboleth • Tools to implement: Shibboleth, Grouper, Signet • Infrastructure/Services to scale: InCommon, USHER

  39. Advanced R&E Networking:Applications TODAY • TV-Quality Videoconferencing • Gigabyte-class data sets among small research groups • Limited access to remote scientific instruments TOMORROW • Uncompressed HDTV and gigapixel displays • Terabyte-class data sets among global research groups • Routine, reliable, and discipline wide access to remote scientific instruments

  40. Supporting Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks • Ecology • Seismology • Meteorology

  41. Access to Unique Scientific Instruments • Astronomy • High-Energy and Nuclear Physics

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