Internet2 K20 Initiative & Abilene SEGP Update

Heather Bruning, Abilene Program Manager

6th Annual Summer Institute, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

July 17, 2003

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Internet2 Mission

Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

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Internet2 Goals

Enable new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network capability

Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

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Internet2 Membership

Regular• US institutions of higher education

Corporate• For-profit US-based companies

Affiliate• Non-profit and other research or education organizations

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Internet2 Universities202 University Members, July 2003

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Internet2 Affiliate Members

Altarum

American Distance Education Consortium

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

CENIC

CERN

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland Museum of Art

Department of Commerce, Boulder

Desert Research Institute

EDUCAUSE

Food and Drug Administration

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS)

Jet Propulsion Laboratories

LaNet

Manhattan School of Music

MCNC

Merit Network, Inc.

MOREnet

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

National Institutes of Health

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Silver Spring

National Science Foundation

New World Symphony

NYSERNet, Inc.

Oak Ridge National LabsOARnetOneNet

PeachNet

Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)

Southwest Research Institute

State University of New York System

State University System of Florida

Survivors of the Shoah-Visual History Foundation

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

University of Missouri System

University of North Carolina, General Administration

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Corporate Membership

Corporate Membership by Type• 16 Partners• 10 Sponsors• 35 Members

Diversity of Corporate Membership• Telecommunications and networking companies• Educational content providers• Pharmaceuticals• Start-ups

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International Partners

Asia-PacificAAIREP (Australia)APAN (Asia-Pacific)APAN-KR (Korea)APRU (Asia-Pacific)CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)JAIRC (Japan)JUCC (Hong Kong)NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand)SingAREN (Singapore)TAnet2 (Taiwan)

AmericasCANARIE (Canada)CEDIA (Ecuador)CNTI (Venezuela)CR2NET (Costa Rica)CUDI (Mexico)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil)SENACYT (Panama)

Europe-Middle EastARNES (Slovenia)BELNET (Belgium)CARNET (Croatia)CESnet (Czech Republic)DANTE (Europe)DFN-Verein (Germany)GIP RENATER (France)GRNET (Greece)HEAnet (Ireland)HUNGARNET (Hungary)INFN-GARR (Italy)Israel-IUCC (Israel)NORDUnet (Nordic Countries)POL-34 (Poland)FCCN (Portugal)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxembourg)RIPN (Russia)SANET (Slovakia)Stichting SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)TERENA (Europe)JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)

Last updated: 1 July 2003

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Abilene Focus

Goals• Enabling innovative applications and advanced services

not possible over the commercial Internet• Backbone & regional infrastructure provides a vital

substrate for the continuing culture of Internet advancement in the university/corporate research sector

Advanced service efforts• Multicast• IPv6• Measurement• Security

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Partnership approach

The Abilene Network is an Internet2 project done in partnership with

• Cisco Systems (routers, switches, and access)• Juniper Networks (routers)• Nortel Networks (SONET kit)• Qwest Communications (SONET & DWDM circuits, co-location)• Indiana University (network operations center)

• Internet2 Test & Evaluation Centers (ITECs)– North Carolina and Ohio

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Abilene – July 2003

IP-over-DWDM (OC-192c) and IP-over-SONET backbone (OC-48c)

48 direct connections (OC-3c 10-Gbps)• 2 10-Gbps (10 Gig Eth) connections

– OC-192 SONET also supported

• 6 OC-48c & 1 Gig Eth connections• 23 connections at OC-12c or higher

221 participants – research univs. & labs• All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico

Expanded access• 88 sponsored participants and 28 state education networks

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Next Generation Abilene status

11 next generation router nodes in place • Deploying two racks in each location: Juniper T640 router

& four measurement servers• Cisco 12008 routers phased out, except in Atlanta• Very pleased to date with new router performance and

interoperability with 1st generation backbone

Transcontinental 10-Gbps ’s in place• Seven ’s connected to network

– DC-NYC-Chicago-Indy-KC-Sunnyvale CA-Los Angeles– KC-Houston now in place

ITEC network performance validation test • 8 Gbps of 2-way traffic (50% v4/v6 and 100% v6)

transmitted transcontinentally without loss or reordering

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Internet2 Applications

What are “Internet2 applications”?

They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning.

They require advanced networks to work.

http://apps.internet2.edu/

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Virtual Laboratories

Real-time access to remote instruments

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Distributed nanoManipulator

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Digital Video Applications

Broadcast TV quality videoconferencing

Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content

HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …

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Internet2 K20 Initiative - Overview

Goals

Structure

Communications Strategy

Communities/Partnerships

Projects/Activities

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Past Lessons Learned

The more innovators brought on board early the greater the progress.

The more broadly shared the tech platforms and tools the greater the leverage.

A disproportionate share of important innovations come from the .edu realms.

There are many important opportunities for the use of technology in teaching, learning and access.

We need to do a better job of evaluation and timely communication.

Internet culture (“loose consensus and working code”) plus partnerships works for this -- much better than traditional education process/planning models.

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K20 Initiative Goals:Beyond Connectivity

To bring innovators in K-12, community colleges, universities,

libraries and museums into appropriate regional, national and international advanced networking efforts, via the "Sponsored Education Group Participant" (SEGP) process.

To encourage and help sustain partnerships among these education institutions, the private sector and government.

To enhance teaching and learning by facilitating projects that explore the ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools and digital content can extend access to education and educational resources.

To develop mechanisms for timely communication across all educational sectors and regions in order to enable quick, pervasive technology diffusion.

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K20 Initiative: 2003 foci

Continue to work with communities of interest

• libraries via ALA and IMLS• Quilt• Deaf Education Community

and Federal funding agencies • IMLS• NEH• NSF-Education• NEA

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K20 Initiative: 2003 foci….cont.

Continue developing better ways to engage the volunteers who must drive any application projects forward

myK20 Database Project • web application allows any of the 10,000 SEGP

institutions to contribute project information • Most importantly - find those with common interests who

would like to engage other institutions in some or all aspects of a given project

• Project peer review forums, links to resources created, best practices, and lessons learned information embedded with project description.

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Internet2 K20 Approach

Projects will be carried out by multi-state, often multi-sector, project teams

Project leadership will come from the team, with support from Internet2 K20 project staff

Initial projects will seek to leverage current Internet2 projects and innovative efforts among Internet2 members, institutions, sponsored participants and SEGPs

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K20 Advisory Committee

Representatives from each stateDesignated by Internet2 sponsorsRepresent the broad programmatic interests of the SEGP sponsor(s), connector, as well as the spectrum of participants/audiences (e.g., K12, colleges and universities, public libraries, museums, science centers, zoos, etc.)Provide input, ideas, feedback to help shape, guide, and inspire the national Initiative

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K20 Advisory Committee Roles

Identify and engage innovators within their state -- among the K12, higher education, library and museum communities -- in Internet2 K20 projects

Bring forward projects for multi-state participation

Encourage SEGP participation in existing Internet2 working groups where appropriate

Serve as an information conduit between local/regional/state efforts and the national initiative

Provide feedback to the project directors as the Initiative evolves

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K20 Executive Committee

Group of 13 individuals from various states around the SEGP community

More nimble than the larger advisory committee

Help shape overall initiative goals and strategy

Identify possible working group areas to engage other Advisory Committee membersand their constituencies.

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K20 Communication Strategy

Demo Materials• materials need not be themselves Internet2 applications but

need to capture applications and projects in a compelling way

Featured SEGP• opportunity to overview the work and accomplishments

underway in SEGP states

Internet2 K20 Newsletter • focuses on the work being done by K20 institutions and is

shared broadly with the K20 community via listserv and the web site

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K20 Communication Strategy (continued)

Resources• guides K20 constituents to important SEGP and Internet2 related information

Opportunities• a list of opportunities to help various communities get involved in the Internet2 K20 Initiative

Tearsheet glossy• single-page glossy overview of the Initiative. Available in print and pdf on the web site

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A Few Relevant Communities

Sponsored Education Group Participants (“state networks”)

Museums, libraries, archives, cultural institutions

“Beltway” societies and associations

Key sponsored research agencies, e.g., NSF, NIH, NEA

Education and learning research organizations, including think tanks, research groups, national academies

Internet2 & Internet2 members

International partners (e.g., CANARIE)

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K20 Initiative Partnerships

American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy

• working with the K20 Initiative to shape a strategy for using advanced networks and applications in public and academic libraries.

The Quilt• UCAID project whose participants are non-profit advanced regional network organizations dedicated to furthering research and education in the United States.

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Internet2 K20 Projectsa few examples…

Additional project information http://k20.internet2.edu/projects/index.html

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A Sampling of Areas of Interest

Digital Content: actively seeking out local resources • Music (e.g., ethnomusicology and music education)• Documentary films, animation arts, local history• Presidential libraries• Historical information, primary source documents

Learning courseware & curriculum repositoriesVideo: H.323 and future interactive video and multimedia technologies, digital video, low- to high-end video multicastRemote instrumentation & other scientific apparatus which could be shared across educational communitiesMiddleware deployment and partnerships Engaging public libraries – uses of advanced networksInternet2 server technologies, caching, co-location

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Get Involved!

Contact Louis Fox or James Werle with ideas or questions

Read about what is going on

Get to know your friendly SEGP representative

Make frequent visits the Opportunities section of the Internet2 K20 website

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Abilene Access

Primary Participants – research universities, corporations, etc.

Affiliate & Corporate members

Sponsored Participants – individual locations

And now…..

SEGPs: Sponsored Education Group Participants

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Sponsored Education Group Participant (SEGP) Fundamentals

SEGP status targeted at both developed and emerging state-based education networksOne or more Internet2 University Members in the same state act as sponsor(s)Connectors take overall fiscal and operational responsibility for the SEGPPeriodic SEGP progress updates to Abilene required (e.g., how are SEGPs implementing advanced applications?)

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Approved SEGPs

• Alabama • New Mexico• California • New York• Florida • North Carolina• Georgia • North Dakota• Hawaii • Ohio• Illinois • Oklahoma• Indiana • Oregon• Iowa • Pennsylvania• Louisiana • Rhode Island• Maryland • Texas• Massachusetts • Virginia• Michigan • Washington• Minnesota • Wisconsin• Missouri • Utah

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Sponsored Education Group Participants as of July 17, 2003

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SEGP Inquiries

• Colorado• Connecticut• Delaware• Kansas• Kentucky• Nevada• New Hampshire• New Jersey• South Carolina• Tennessee

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SEGP Connectivity SurveyFall 2002

Survey Goals• Provide a high level view of the connectivity and enabled technologies within the SEGPs

• Also, totals for the entire SEGP program (as of August 2002)

• Provide contact information for pursuing additional information

• The goal is NOT to provide a detailed site survey as this is too resource intensive and hard to maintain

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SEGP Connectivity SurveySummary of Results (Fall 2002)

62% of the state education networks can access the Internet2 backbone network at >155 Mbps

As of late 2002, there are 25 state k12/k20 networks participating connecting about 9800 K20 institutions –

• 7173 k12 schools (73% of total)

• 1482 public libraries (15% of total)

• 551 community colleges (6% of total)

• 526 four-year colleges and universities (5% of total)

• 102 museums, zoos, aquariums, and science centers (1% of total)

For more information: http://k20.internet2.edu/segp/stateconnect/segpsurvey.shtml

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SEGP Process

• Sponsor(s) complete SEGP Application• SEGP Connector completes Abilene Connection Agreement Addendum

• Connector submits SEGP routing information to UCAID at abilene@internet2.edu

• UCAID reviews and approves routes and submits them to the Abilene NOC

• Abilene NOC begins passing additional SEGP traffic on the network

• Appoint Internet2 K20 Initiative Representatives

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SEGP Connector Requirements

A Connector supporting the Sponsored Education Group Participant(s) must:

• Maintain a 7x24 Network Operations Center (NOC)• Register its routing information and that of the Participant(s)

in the Internet2 Routing Registry (I2db) or equivalent• Provide UCAID a quarterly report on the relative utilization

of the Abilene connection by the SEGP• Assure compliance with the Abilene CoU by the

Participant(s)• Inform the Participant(s) that Abilene does not provide

transit to the commodity Internet

These steps will be implemented through an amended Abilene Connection agreement

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SEGP Related Costs

Annual participation fee • $30,000 + $2,000 x (size of State’s U.S. House delegation)

• Delegation size provides a readily auditable population metric

This annual fee• will be charged on a per-connecting organization, per-state basis

• will be paid directly by the Abilene Connector on behalf of the Sponsored Participant

• is not eligible for E-rate discount

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Contact Information

On the Web• k20.internet2.edu/• abilene.internet2.edu/

Email• Louis Fox: lfox@internet2.edu• Heather Bruning: heather.bruning@internet2.edu• Abilene (general inquiries): abilene@internet2.edu

Phone• Louis Fox: (206) 685-4745• Heather Bruning: (734) 352-4955

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