Internet2: update on new activities in networking, middleware and applications

Heather Boyles <heather@internet2.edu>

APAN 22 – Singapore

21 July 2006

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APAN and Internet2

• APAN and Internet2 partners since June 1999• Joined meetings in 2001, 2004, 2008

• Extensive APAN participation in Internet2 Member Meetings

• Broad Internet2 community participation in APAN• TransPAC/Indiana University and US Pacific

Consortium as Associate Members

Introduction

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Who is Internet2 today?

• Membership:• 207 US University members • 66 Corporate members• 47 Affiliate members

• Including US government research labs• Several state/regional research and education networks

• 48 International partnerships• Community:

• ~700 people twice/year at Member Meetings• 19 active workings groups; 13 active SIGs; 10 Advisory

Groups• Staff to facilitate, coordinate, support the work of the member

community

Introduction

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Internet2 Scope of Activity

Motivate Enable

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Introduction

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Coordinating Across Geographic Scales

Introduction

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Network Infrastructure

National: e.g. new Internet2 Network = 13,000 route miles

State/Regional: 35,740+ route miles of dark fiber owned

Campus:?

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Network Infrastructure

Courtesy: Steve Wallace, Indiana University

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New Internet2 Nationwide Backbone

Network Infrastructure

http://networks.internet2.edu

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New Network Services Development

• Dynamic provisioning: control plane work• HOPI developments: using NSF-funded DRAGON

software• International joint development

• HOPI/DRAGON + GEANT2• ESnet OSCARS + Internet2 BRUW = BRUSCI joint

development

• Point to point services trials• Internet2 & GEANT2 service trial for 1GE

‘lightpaths’ - underway

http://networks.internet2.edu/hopi/

Network Services

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Network Services: Measurement and Monitoring

• Provide an Infrastructure users can access• International joint development of

PerfSONAR• Internet2 e2dpIPes + GEANT2 JRA activity• Joined now by ESnet, RNP (Brazil) in

developing tools/infrastructure elements

http://perfsonar.net

Network Services

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Middleware Developments

Middleware

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Got Federation?

• Federations:• Inter-institutional trust infrastructure• Exchange identify information, authentication,

authorization• US Federation for higher education:• InCommon: based on Shibboleth

architecture/federating software• Proliferation of national federations: Swiss,

UK, Finland, Norway, Australia, Netherlands…..

• European-based work to connect federations

Middleware

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What’s it good for?

• Content providers• ElsevierScienceDirect, OCLC and more:

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/seas.html

• perfSONAR: authentication required to run some tests

• Point to point services: authentication required to reserve bandwidth

• GridShib: providing authentication and authorization services to grid infrastructure

Middleware

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What’s any of this good for?

• Network research – further development of networking infrastructure, technology and applications

• Research, teaching, learning, clinical, outreach uses – across the broad set of disciplines (not just science)

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Internet2 and Network Research

• Collocation Projects:• PlanetLab, AMP, PMA

• Abilene Observatory Data Research:• ~ 33 research projects using this data• http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory/rese

arch-projects.html

• New network infrastructure: committed to continuing

Network Research

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•Civil War shipwreck site off North Carolina coast•first National Marine Sanctuary•Institute for Exploration, Mystic, CT & NOAA

•July 15-20•using a satellite telecommunication link to Internet2 networks •netcast streaming video feeds and to answer questions from shore in real time

Applications

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IRADS: Integrated Radar Data ServicesUniversity of Oklahoma – using NEXRAD Level II data • 4 NWS Regional Headquarters (RHQ) sites receive data from each of 140

Doppler radars• Each RHQ server is linked to the Internet2's Abilene Network• Data are transmitted directly to University of Oklahoma

Applications

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Applications

• Co-organized by Internet2, MedPresence Corporation, Research Channel, Microsoft Research and VIDE project

• Focus on health science community’s ability to effectively use and manipulate image/video resources irrespective of location

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Other examples of actual uses: IDEA Awardshttp://www.internet2.edu/idea/2006/

e-VLBI

Trans-continental Persistent Archives

Interactive Music Education

Megaconference and its spin-offs

Applications

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State of the Organization

• 10 years in October!

• Undertaking revision of governance, advisory structure

• Opportunity around new network to explore new network connection/participation/usage models

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Please join us!

• Next Internet2 Member Meetings• Chicago – December 4-7, 2006• Washington, DC – April 23-25, 2007

• Next ESCC/Internet2 “Joint Techs” Meeting• Minneapolis – February 11-14, 2007

• Next joint APAN/Joint Techs• Hawaii – January 20-25, 2008