Internet 2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher

Internet 2 and Abilene Advanced Networking in Higher Education Greg Wood Director of Communications

Internet 2 Project Goals 8 Enable new generation of applications 8 Re-create leading edge R&E network capability 8 Transfer capability to the global production Internet

Commercialization 21 st Century Networking Privatization Sprint. Link MCI/Worldcom ARPAnet Active Nets Broadban d Wireless gigabit testbeds Research and Development US Govt Networks ANS Interoperable High Performance Research &Education Networks NSFNET Quality of Service (Qo. S) Abilene, v. BNS Advanced US Govt Networks Partnerships Source: Ivan Moura Campos

Current Internet 2 Priorities 8 Identify and develop first phase applications 8 Establish nationwide high performance end-to-end connectivity 8 Facilitate middleware implementation 8 Support network research 8 Build international collaboration opportunities

Internet 2 Universities 133 as of September 1998 University of Puerto Rico not shown

Internet 2 Corporate Partners 83 Com 8 Lucent Technologies 8 Advanced Network 8 MCI Worldcom & Services, Inc. 8 Newbridge Networks 8 AT&T 8 Nortel Networks 8 Cabletron Systems 8 Qwest Communications 8 Cisco Systems 8 Star. Burst 8 FORE Communications 8 IBM

Internet 2 Corporate Sponsors 8 Bell South 8 Packet Engines 8 SBC Technology Resources 8 Storage. Tek 8 Torrent Technologies

Internet 2 Corporate Members 8 Alcatel Telecom 8 Ameritech 8 Apple Computers 8 Applied. Theory 8 Bell Atlantic 8 Bellcore 8 British Telecom 8 Deutsche Telekom 8 GTE Internetworking 8 Hitachi 8 IXC Communications 8 KDD 8 Nexabit Networks 8 Nokia Research Center 8 Novell 8 Pacific Bell 8 RR Donnelley 8 Siemens 8 Sprint 8 Storage. Tek 8 Sun Microsystems 8 Sylvan Learning 8 Telebeam 8 Williams Communications

Advanced Internet Benefits 8 Richer content through higher bandwidth • Video, audio • Virtual reality • Dynamic, not static 8 More interactivity via minimal delay 8 Reliable content delivery through quality of service (Qo. S) model

Internet 2 Applications 8 Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in the conduct of: • Research • Teaching • Learning 8 Require advanced networking

Many Disciplines and Contexts 8 Sciences 8 Arts 8 Humanities 8 Health care 8 Business/Law 8 Administration 8… 8 Instruction 8 Collaboration 8 Streaming video 8 Distributed computation 8 Data mining 8 Virtual reality 8 Digital libraries 8…

Application Attributes 8 Interactive research collaboration and instruction 8 Real-time access to remote scientific instruments Images courtesy of the University of Michigan

Attributes, cont. 8 Large-scale, multisite computation and database processing 8 Shared virtual reality 8 Any combination of the above Images courtesy of Old Dominion University and Univ of Illinois-Chicago

Middleware Challenges 8 Identify technologies that are scalable and interoperable 8 Increase deployment of middleware technologies as part of a precommercial production environment 8 Examples: • Quality of Service • Multicast • Audio/Video Frameworks

Recent Initiatives 8 Qbone • Quality of service testbed 8 I 2 -DVN • Internet 2 Digital Video Network 8 I 2 -DSI • Internet 2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure 8 Do. GBone • Digital video over Giga. Po. P

Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering

Engineering Objectives 8 Deploy a production network to support applications R&D 8 Establish quality of service (Qo. S) 8 Support native multicast 8 Establish giga. Po. Ps as effective service points

Network Architecture Giga. Po. P One Giga. Po. P Two I 2 Interconnect Cloud Giga. Po. P Three Giga. Po. P Four “Gigabit capacity point of presence” an aggregation point for regional connectivity

Giga. Po. Ps, cont. University A I 2 Interconnect Cloud Giga. Po. P One Regional Network University B University C Commodity Internet Connections

Giga. Po. Ps 8 Variety of services and styles • Technical and organizational differences • Mixture of technologies 8 Some things must be the same • IP as common bearer service • Inter-giga. Po. P routing policy and design • Measurement • Trouble tickets among network operations centers

Internet 2 Giga. Po. Ps

Interconnect 8 v. BNS (very high speed Backbone Network Service) • NSF and MCI cooperative agreement • Operating at OC 12 • Peers with other federally sponsored networks • www. vbns. net 8 Abilene Network (January 1999)

Abilene Project Goals 8 Support Internet 2 applications development 8 Demonstrate next generation networking capabilities 8 Create facilities for network research

Abilene Project Participants 8 UCAID 8 Qwest Communications 8 Cisco Systems 8 Nortel Networks 8 Indiana University

Abilene Project Timeline 8 April 1998: Project Announced 8 September 1998: Prototype demonstration 8 January 1999: Operations begin

Abilene Network January 1999 Seattle nd la ve e l C Sacramento Denver Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles Atlanta Abilene Router Node Abilene Access Node Operational January 1999 Planned 1999 Houston New York

Abilene Characteristics 82. 4 Gbps (OC 48) among giga. Po. Ps, increasing to 9. 6 Gbps (OC 192) 8 Connections at 622 Mbps (OC 12) or 155 Mbps (OC 3) 8 IP over Sonet technology 8 Access Po. Ps very close to university giga. Po. Ps

For more information. . . 8 On the Web • www. internet 2. edu 8 Internet 2 Applications • apps. internet 2. edu 8 Abilene Project • www. ucaid. edu/abilene/ 8 Questions? • ghwood@internet 2. edu