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The Future of the Internetand Internet2The Future of the Internetand Internet2
IEC Executive Forum@SUPERCOMM 2001Douglas E. Van Houweling
President and CEO, UCAID
IEC Executive Forum@SUPERCOMM 2001Douglas E. Van Houweling
President and CEO, UCAID
June 5, 2001June 5, 2001
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What Is Internet2?
A project of the university community working with our corporate colleagues and government to close the gap between the potential and reality of the Internet
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Tomorrow’s Internet
Billions of users and devices
Convergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV)
Support mission-critical applications
Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computers
New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)
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Why Internet2?
The Internet was not designed for:• More than 100 million users• Congestion• Multimedia• Real time interaction
But, only the Internet can:• Accommodate explosive growth• Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration
Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future
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Why University Leadership?
The Internet originated in the higher education & research community
• Stanford -- the Internet protocols• NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet• CERN -- The WWW protocols• University of Illinois -- The Web browser
Universities require an advanced Internet and have demonstrated they can develop new Internet capabilities
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Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
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Status
Current members:• 187 U.S. universities• 70+ for-profit corporations• 40+ not-for-profit organizations
In partnership with:• U.S. government• 30+ national networking organizations of other countries
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Internet2 Universities187 Universities as of June 2001
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Internet2 Corporate Partners
3Com
Advanced Network & Services
Alcatel
AT&T
Cisco Systems
IBM
ITC^Deltacom
Lucent Technologies
Marconi Communications
Microsoft
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
SBC Communications
Spirent Communications
WCI Cable
WorldCom
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Internet2 Accomplishments
A high-performance network for members
• Backbones – vBNS (NSF, Worldcom), Abilene (Qwest, Nortel, Cisco, Indiana University)
• Regional connectivity via gigaPoPs• Campus & enterprise connectivity by members• 2.4 gigabit capacity, tuned for >100 megabit streams
• Over 190 participating sites nationwide• Linked to similar networks worldwide
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Internet2 Accomplishments
Member development and deployment of applications requiring high performance networking
• Multimedia• Remote operation• Collaboration• Large scale computation & data mining• Virtual reality• Peer to peer computing
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What We Have Learned
High performance infrastructure is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient of high performance network capability.
Middleware is required to scale up advanced network capabilities and applications.
The Internet marketplace is slow to deploy advanced capabilities.
The biggest challenges are organizational, not technological
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What We Are Doing
End-to-End Performance Initiative• Measurement, diagnostic tools, best practices, multicast, Quality of Service
Internet2 Middleware Project• Authentication, shared directories, PKI, security
Expanded Access• Sponsored by members• K-20 education, libraries, museums, startup companies
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Research andDevelopment
Commercialization
Partnerships
Privatization
Internet Development Spiral
Today’s Internet
Internet2
NSFNetARPANet
NYSERNet
SURANet
MichNet
ANS/Core
PSI
UUNet
InternetMCI
AOL
GigaBitTestbeds
MBone
NGIIntelligentNetworks
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More Internet2 Information
On the Web• www.internet2.edu• www.internet2.edu/html/lists.html
Email• [email protected]
www.internet2.edu