Internet2: update on new activities in networking, middleware and applications
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Internet2: update on new activities in networking, middleware and applications
Heather Boyles <[email protected]>
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
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Internet2 Scope of Activity
Motivate Enable
End-to-end
End-to-end
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MiddlewareMiddleware
ApplicationsApplications
ServicesServices
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Introduction
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Coordinating Across Geographic Scales
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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
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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