Advanced R&E NetworkingNetworking Capabilities:TODAY Megabit-per-second bandwidth IP-based services Campus-focused middleware Loose coordination across networks

TOMORROW Gigabit-per-second bandwidth IP-based and Dynamic Circuit (DC) services Inter-domain middleware High coordination across networks

Advanced R&E NetworkingApplications:TODAY TV-Quality Videoconferencing Gigabyte-class data sets among small research groups Limited access to remote scientific instruments

TOMORROW Uncompressed HDTV and gigapixel displays Terabyte-class data sets among global research

groups Routine, reliable, and discipline wide access to remote

scientific instruments

High Speed Videoconferencing • High-Quality: High performance networks allow for richer,

more natural audio and video quality.• Low Latency: No lip synch issues, can use for foreign

language, remote music instruction, etc.• Real Time Interactive Collaboration: Learning objects can

be manipulated in real time. • Easy Entry Point: IP Videoconferencing is versatile and an

easy way to get started.

Megaconference Jr.

Read Around the Planet

Physics Master Classes

It’s more than just videoconferencing!

Digital Library Resources

Remote Instrumentation

Networked Instrumentation

Medical Simulation

Distributed Collaboratories

Types of Applications

Internet2 applications require enhanced networking functionality—such as high bandwidth, low latency (delay) and jitter, and multicast—not available on our commercial Internet connections.

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Example applications: Grid computing Telemedicine Astronomy Tele-immersion Music Digital Video Tele-Operation of Remote Equipment

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Using the network as a "backplane" to build network-wide computation and data services.

It enables scientific exploration, which requires intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities.

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The Grid project

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The two biggest centersFor Particle Physics

CERN in Geneva

Fermilab near Chicago

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3.5 PetaBytes / year~108 events/year

The Computing Challenge

TelemedicineDuring a surgery performed at Ohio State

University, Abilene was used to conference with doctors from other parts of the country.

An MRI machine can scan a patient in one location and send the data to a remote supercomputer for processing, and then deliver the resulting images to a doctor in a third location.

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Tele-healthMedical instructionClinical practiceResearch

Radio AstronomyElectronic transmission of Very Long

Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) data from the Haystack's Westford Observatory and NASA's Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory, which were streamed over Internet2's Abilene Network to the Haystack correlator at 512 Mbps.

The live results were displayed in a 3D plot (correlation amplitude, differential Doppler, differential delay) in Pittsburgh as the data were correlated.

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TELE-IMMERSION

• Tele-immersion creates coordinated, partially simulated environments at geographically distributed sites so that users can collaborate as if they were in the same physical room.

• In the case of medical applications, such as tele-radiology and urgent diagnostics, the availability of such technologies in the places that are physically inaccessible to specialists could potentially save the lives. Off-shore ships and oil rigs are good examples of such environments.

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The participants in this session were not only able to see each other in 3D but they were also able to engage in collaborative work, and take part in a design process (a simple example of interior office design)

Synthetic Worlds Otherwise known as massive multiplayer

interactive games Over 5 million “inhabitants” today

Doubling every 18 months About 2% of the Internet-connected

population age 14-28 spend more time in the synthetic world than in the real world

Linked to the real world Physical artifacts like playing cards Ebay auctions for “money” and resources

Real people make real money

Undersea Oceanography

Images National Geographic

Supporting Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks

EcologySeismologyMeteorology

AstronomyHigh-Energy and Nuclear Physics

Access to Unique Scientific Instruments

Hi-fidelity Collaboration

HD-quality video CD-quality audio

Agriculture Arts Biological Sciences Business Computer Science Education Engineering Geophysical Sciences Health Sciences Humanities Mathematical and Physical Sciences Other Social Sciences

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