research and education networking in the united states: looking back and visioning the future...
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Research and Education Networking in the United States: Looking Back and Visioning the Future
Douglas E. Van HouwelingPresident & CEO
Internet2APAN 24th MeetingXi’an, ChinaAugust 31, 2007
Overview
• Where we have been, and why
• Where we are today• Organization• Technology
• The future NREN for the USA
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
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History & BackgroundHistory & Background
ARPANet 1987– NSFNet 1990 -- Advanced Network and Services
(ANS) 1994 -- WWW 1994 -- Commercialization 1997 -- Next Generation Internet
Initiative & Internet2
ARPANet 1987– NSFNet 1990 -- Advanced Network and Services
(ANS) 1994 -- WWW 1994 -- Commercialization 1997 -- Next Generation Internet
Initiative & Internet2
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
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Today’s InternetToday’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
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
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Today’s InternetToday’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!
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!
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Barriers to ProgressBarriers 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
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
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Advanced InternetProjectsAdvanced 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
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
DEVH AAU 10/21/96-10-
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
Internet2 Universities209 University Members as of August 2007
Internet2 Affiliate Members• 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
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
The Crucial Role of the RONs
Internet2 R&E Network Members
• 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
State Education Networks Connected to Internet2
Internet2 Corporate Partners
Internet2 Corporate Sponsors
• Arbor Networks• Campus Televideo• Codian, Inc.• Foundry Networks• inSORS Integrated
Communications
• Polycom Worldwide• RADVISION• TANDBERG• VBrick Systems
Internet2 Corporate Members• 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 International Partners
Asia-PacificAAIREP (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)
AmericasCANARIE (Canada)CEDIA (Ecuador)CLARA (Latin America & Caribbean)CNTI (Venezuela)CR2NET (Costa Rica)CUDI (Mexico)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil)SENACYT (Panama)
EuropeARNES (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)
AfricaMCIT [EUN/ENSTINET] (Egypt)TENET (South Africa)
Middle EastEtisalat University College (UAE)Israel-IUCC (Israel)Qatar Foundation (Qatar)
South AsiaERNET/CDAC (India)
Internet2 International Partners
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
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
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
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
Technology
• Network
• Middleware
• Applications
• Community
• Collaboratively enabling US cyberinfrastructure
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
A New Networking Model
A New Networking Model
A New Networking Model
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
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
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
Internet2 Network Optical Switching Node
Level3 Regen Site
Internet2 Redundant Drop/Add Site
ESnet Drop/Add Site
Internet2 Network
Coordinating Across Geographic Scales
Advanced R&E Networking:Networking Capabilities
TODAY• Megabit-per-second bandwidth• IP-based services• Campus-focused middleware• Loose coordination across networksTOMORROW• Gigabit-per-second bandwidth• IP-based and Dynamic Circuit (DC) services• Inter-domain middleware • High coordination across networks
Integrated Systems Model
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
Advanced R&E Networking:Applications
TODAY• TV-Quality Videoconferencing• Gigabyte-class data sets among small research groups• Limited access to remote scientific instrumentsTOMORROW• Uncompressed HDTV and gigapixel displays• Terabyte-class data sets among global research groups• Routine, reliable, and discipline wide access to remote
scientific instruments
Supporting Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks
• Ecology
• Seismology
• Meteorology
Access to Unique Scientific Instruments
• Astronomy
• High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
Hi-fidelity Collaboration
• HD-quality video
• CD-quality audio
Tele-health
• Medical instruction
• Clinical practice
• Research
NEPTUNE
http://www.neptune.washington.edu/
JASON
http://www.jason.org/
Cyberinfrastructure Vision:More Than High-End Computing and Connectivity• Focused making greater capabilities available
across the science and engineering research communities
• Allows applications to interoperate across institutions and disciplines
• Ensures that data and software are preserved and easily available to all
• Empowers enhanced collaboration over distance and across disciplines
Report of the National Science FoundationBlue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure Days
• TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, Internet2 and EDUCAUSE collaboration
• Assist campuses in their CI planning• Reach out to early and later-adopting
disciplines • Gather feedback/insight on services the
national organizations could provide to aid campuses and discipline communities
Additional Workshops
• Arts & Humanities• Dynamic Circuit Services • High-Energy Nuclear Physicists
(Large Hadron Collider)• IPv6• Multicast• Network Performance• Real Time Collaboration Tools
(Internet2 Commons)
The Future
• A Vision for the US NREN• Internet2• NLR• Regional & state networks• Federal agencies• K-20/library/museum community
• An imperative for US capability and competitiveness
An Asset for the Community
Universities
Researchers
Regional Networks
K-12
Industry
International
An Asset for the Community
Universities
Researchers
Regional Networks
K-12
Industry
International