April 19, 2023

Internet2: Accelerating the Development of Tomorrow’s Internet

Heather BoylesDirector, International RelationsInternet2heather@internet2.edu

20 February 2003Hong Kong

Internet2: Accelerating the Development of Tomorrow’s Internet

Heather BoylesDirector, International RelationsInternet2heather@internet2.edu

20 February 2003Hong Kong

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Internet2 Mission and Goals

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

• Enable new generation of applications• Create leading edge R&E network capability• Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

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University Leadership

200 university members with commitments from their Presidents/Chancellors/Rectors

• 60+ corporate members• Over 40 Affiliate Members

–Government Research Agencies

• Internet2/U.S. Government: separate but interdependent

• Internet2 International Partner Program

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Internet2 Universities202 University Members, January 2003

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Internet2 – JUCC partnership

Internet2 – JUCC Partnership • (via Memorandum of Understanding)• In place since August 2000

Abilene – HARNET Peering• Agreement in place since August 2000• Connectivity in place since September 2002

Internet2 – JUCC/HARNET users collaborations

• Let this launch event provide a basis for starting new work together!

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International Partnerships

Ensure global interoperability • of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications

Enable global collaboration • in research and education providing/promoting the

development of an advanced networking environment internationally

Build effective partnerships with organizations • similar goals/objectives • similar constituencies

Mechanism: Memoranda of

Understanding

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Internet2 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)CUDI (Mexico)CRNET2 (Costa Rica)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP2 (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)RCCN (Portugal)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxembourg)SANET (Slovakia)Stichting SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)TERENA (Europe)JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)

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Internet2 Areas of Work

Advanced Applications

Middleware

Network Engineering• End to End Performance

Advanced Network Infrastructure

Partnerships and Outreach

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How Internet2 works

Universities commit:• Engineering lead: connect university to rest of Internet2

community, deploy new technologies• Applications lead: support apps development on campus• Middleware architect: work with I2MI to implement middleware

infrastructure

Working groups:• Of expert/interested individuals within community• Chaired by volunteer (sometimes by staff)• Staff support

Projects/Initiatives:• Where collective resources needed• E.g. Commons Initiative, End to End Performance Initiative

Applications and Engineering

ApplicationsApplications

EngineeringEngineering

MotivateEnables

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Internet2Backbone Networks

GigaPoPOne

Internet2 Network Architecture

GigaPoPTwo

GigaPoP(n)

GigaPoPThree

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Internet2 Network Architecture

Internet2 Backbone Network(s)

GigaPoPOne

Regional Network

University C

CommercialInternetConnections

University B

University A

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Abilene NetworkCore Map, January 2003

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Internet2 Backbone Network(s)

Have had two backbones in the past:• vBNS (NSF supported, run by MCIWorldcom)• Abilene (Internet2 member supported, run by UCAID)

Abilene is current backbone network• 11 core router nodes• Moving to 10Gbps core backbone links• Connections to the backbone at 622mbps to 10Gbps

• Most universities aggregate connections through “gigapops” or regional aggregator networks

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Abilene NetworkLogical Map

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STAR TAP/Star LightAPAN/TransPAC†, CA*net, CERN, CERNET/CSTNET/NSFCNET, NAUKAnet, GEMnet, HARNET, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SingAREN, TANET2

NYCGEANT*,

HEANET, NORDUnet,

SINET,SURFnet

Pacific WaveAARNET, APAN/TransPAC†, CA*net, TANET2

SNVAGEMNET, SingAREN, WIDE(v6)

L.A.UNINET

AMPATHANSP,

REUNA2, RNP2, RETINA (REACCIUN-2)

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El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso)CUDI

San Diego (CALREN2)CUDI

09 January 2002

Abilene International Peering (January 2003)

•ARNES, ACONET, BELNET, CARNET, CERN, CESnet, CYNET, DFN, EENet, GARR, GRNET, HEANET, IUCC, JANET, LATNET, LITNET, NORDUNET, RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCST, RedIRIS, SANET, SURFNET•† WIDE/JGN, IMnet, CERNet/CSTnet,/NSFCNET, KOREN/KREONET2, SingAREN, TANET2, ThaiSARN

Last updated: 17 January 2003

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Advanced Network Services

Advance deployment on backbone• Incentive to deploy in gigapops, regional, campus networks

• Accompany with hands-on training for campus engineers

Native IPv6

Native multicast

Measurement tools and architectures

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End to End Performance Initiative

To enable the researchers, faculty, students and staff who use high performance networks to obtain optimal performance from the current infrastructure on a consistent basis.

Raw Connectivity

Applications Performance

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E2E Performance Initiative Work

Understand applications and their performance requirements

• Technical Advisory Group

Provide best practices/experience for network operators

• Collecting Performance Stories

Help the application user troubleshoot problems• Measurement Architecture Document • H.323 Beacon • Reflector Development

Bring all of this together for the end user• Performance Analysis Station and GUI for End-User Solution

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Middleware

Advanced Physical Network Infrastructure

}Applications

Advanced Network Services (Distributed Network Middleware)

Authentication, Identification, Authorization, Directories, Security

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Internet2 Middleware Initiative

Focus on core middleware as infrastructure

Issues:• Interoperability• Implementation on campuses• Integrate with and support applications (upper) middleware, e.g. Grid

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Shibboleth

Facilitates inter-institutional sharing of web resources subject to access controls

Examples:• Students enrolled in a course across multiple universities

accessing class materials and Learning Mgmt Systems• Research workgroups sharing controlled resources (the original

web)

Users register only at their “home” or “origin” institution

The release of the beta code is due in August and a production code release scheduled for October

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Summary

Internet2 focused on:• Working together to advance the development and use of networking infrastructure, technologies and applications

AND• Putting in place the community-wide, interoperable infrastructure (at network, middleware, advanced services levels) to support development and use for research, teaching, learning

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Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Partnerships

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

Today’s Internet

Internet2

Source: Ivan Moura Campos

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