Beyond Tomorrow s Internet University of Alaska Fairbanks March

Beyond Tomorrow’s Internet University of Alaska Fairbanks March 23, 2006 Douglas Van Houweling President & CEO, Internet 2

The Broadband Home of Tomorrow

SON and FRIENDS watching on-demand HDTV nature show 0 10 20 30 20 Mbps

DVR saving HDTV sports event for later viewing 0 10 20 30 20 Mbps

Family movies shared with UNCLE and AUNT across the country. 0 10 20 6 Mbps 30

0 10 20 6 Mbps 30 MOTHER consulting with DOCTOR and GRANDMOTHER via 3 -way DVD-quality videoconferencing, Including real-time blood pressure and heart rate data

FATHER working with COLLEAGUES via DVD-quality videoconference and shared 0 10 20 30 virtual whiteboard 6 Mbps

DAUGHTER working on multimedia school project with her friends via IM and Vo. IP phone while surfing the Web and downloading legal video and music. 0 10 20 6 Mbps 30

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Internet 2’s Role • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet – Research universities and scientific labs – State education networks – The commercial Internet

Internet 2 - today • US-based membership organization – 207 US University members – 66 Corporate members – 47 Affiliate members • Including several US government research labs – 2 Association members – 46 International partnerships – Budget more than $25 million per year

Internet 2 Universities 207 University Members, December 2005

Coordinating Across Geographic Scales

Internet 2 Network Infrastructure Overview • Campus • Regional Aggregation – Example: by US state, metropolitan region, multi-state region • National – Backbone network infrastructure

Network Infrastructure Visualized Internet 2 Backbone Networks (“Abilene”) Research and Education Regional Network University B University C Commercial Internet Connections

Current Internet 2 infrastructure University 100 Mbps 10 Gbs Library K 20 School Museum University Library K 20 School University Nationwide Network Links Library K 20 School Museum

Abilene Backbone Network

Connecting to Abilene

State Higher Education Sponsored Networks • Connected: – More than half of all colleges and universities in the US connected – More than 1/3 of all K-12 schools – 1 in 5 libraries across the nation • Now substantially expanded with the reach into Alaska!

A map of NRENs Current Mo. U Partners Developing Partnerships Related Efforts in Formation

Last updated: Feb. 2006 77 Networks reachable via Abilene Europe-Middle East Asia-Pacific Austria (ACOnet) Malta (Univ. Malta) Belgium (BELNET) Netherlands (SURFnet) Croatia (CARNet) Norway (UNINETT) Czech Rep. (CESNET) Palestinian Territories Cyprus (CYNET) (Gov’t Computing Denmark Center) (Forskningsnettet) Poland (POL 34) Estonia (EENet) Portugal (RCTS 2) Finland (Funet) Qatar (Qatar FN) France (Renater) Romania (Ro. Edu. Net) Germany (G-WIN) Russia (RBnet) Greece (GRNET) Slovakia (SANET) Hungary Slovenia (ARNES) (HUNGARNET) Spain (Red. IRIS) Iceland (RHnet) Sweden (SUNET) Ireland (HEAnet) Switzerland (SWITCH) Israel (IUCC) Syria (HIAST) Italy (GARR) United Kingdom Jordan (JUNET) (JANET) Latvia (LATNET) Turkey (ULAKBYM) Lithuania (LITNET) *CERN Luxembourg (RESTENA) Americas Australia (AARNET) Argentina (RETINA) China (CERNET, CSTNET, Brazil (RNP 2/ANSP) NSFCNET) Canada (CA*net) Fiji (USP-SUVA) Chile (REUNA) Hong Kong (HARNET) Costa Rica (CR 2 Net) Japan (SINET, WIDE, JGN 2) Mexico (Red-CUDI) Korea (KOREN, KREONET 2) Panama (Red. Cy. T) New Zealand (NGI-NZ) Peru (RAAP) Philippines (PREGINET) Uruguay (RAU 2) Singapore (Sing. AREN) Venezuela (REACCIUN 2) Taiwan (TANet 2, ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, Thai. SARN) Africa Algeria (CERIST) Egypt (EUN/ENSTIN) Morocco (CNRST) Tunisia (RFR) South Africa (TENET) Central Asia Armenia (ARENA) Georgia (GRENA) Kazakhstan (KAZRENA) Tajikistan (TARENA) Uzbekistan (UZSCI) More information at http: //abilene. internet 2. edu/peernetworks/international. html

Today’s Internet 2 Networking and Applications

Fine Arts Rehearsal and Performance

Health Science Research and Instruction

Weather Prediction and Disaster Recovery Images courtesy of NOAA

Collaboration and Communication

What We Have Learned • • Bandwidth Symmetry Neutrality Global Competitiveness

Bandwidth • The applications we use today require up to 100 megabits/second • Today’s local infrastructure is capable of speeds above 10 megabits/second • Special challenges exist for rural communities

Symmetry Collaboration and content creation Enabling new content creation opportunities – FTP vs. Bit. Torrent – “Big Web” vs. Blogging – Streaming Audio vs. Podcasting – Apple i. TMS video vs. Grouper. com • Opens up distributed enterprise

Network Neutrality • Today’s technology allows high bandwidth to the home and small business – Internet 2 experience: Simple and inexpensive, not complex and expensive! • Innovation • Critical for higher education

Global Competitiveness • Other nations are out-investing us and doing it with a national strategy • If the US doesn’t invest, we will be followers, not leaders • Our geographic diversity requires investment to harness the productivity of all our people

Foundation for New Services Community-owned optical networking infrastructure Diversity Cost-effectiveness National Lambda. Rail Fiber. Co

Owning the infrastructure • Campus, regional and national networks moving away from buying telecommunications services to “owning” the assets – Campus – laying fiber on campus and between campuses in metro area – Regional networks – buying, laying and long-term leasing “dark” fiber to build networks – National Lambda Rail 20 -year IRU on dark fiber; lit with NLR-owned equipment

Deploying and Testing

The Future for Alaska • Extend fiber-based networking to Alaska higher education – Work with government & industry • Deploy higher bandwidth connectivity intra-state – New technologies will be required – An opportunity for Alaskan leadership globally • Ensure that the commercial network is capable of real broadband

Questions? • Find us at www. internet 2. edu