E-AGE 1st International ConferenceArab States Research and Education Network

Internet2: A Next Generation Innovation and Service Platform for Research, Education and Economic Development in the United States

H. David Lambert

President and CEO

Internet2

December 12, 2011

Our community: Then and now

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• 1996 – 34 universities form the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) and the Internet2 Project

• 2010 – Over 350 higher education, industry, affiliate and research and education network members

An Ecosystem Built on Partnerships

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Three themes

• Re-establishing Research and Education Networks as Drivers of Innovation.

• Globalization of Science, Research and Education and What That Implies for National R&E Networks.

• Adding Value to our Networks Through the Deployment of ‘Net+’ Services

Creating opportunity for new innovation begins with understanding what has

enabled innovation in the past.

• The research and education community has played the seminal role in the creation of the modern Internet and the applications that have made it the transformative technology of the 20th and 21st century

• The story is on-going - not simply historical. What we do today sets the groundwork for next stages of Internet development

R&E and The Commercial Internet• First early commercial Internet companies were spun out of

R&E networks in the united States• WWW and web browsers and early commercial sites created

avalanche of demand for commercial Internet presence• The first web browsers were created by CERN and NCSA at the University

of Illinois

• Reality: Internet became the de facto standard because that’s where the action was – created by the Research & Education community

• Now the Internet services market is $40B annually and Internet software and services Market is $100B annually

• R&E Networks have incubated the primary technologies and technology enterprises that drive the global internet.

The R&E Community is critical to advancement of networking and advanced

applications in the US and the World

• We moved and continue to move the world from proprietary to open networking

• We led and continue to lead thinking from bandwidth scarcity to bandwidth availability – new applications do not happen without capacity for innovation

• The leading and game changing applications continue to start on campuses and research labs

• Leading new companies and entire industries have their roots on our campuses; our investments seeded the creation of the internet economy.

Going forward: We can’t predict the future, but we can set conditions for innovation

• Demand follows application availability (which needs large scale operating environments to enable adoption)• Commercial approaches tend to limit bandwidth use, innovation

platforms need to encourage utilization

• Real applications tend to evolve from ubiquitous deployment in real communities, which universities have traditionally enabled. • small demo pilots don’t provide adequate scale and real-world

conditions for applications to take off

• We need to create a platform for future innovation that outstrips current capabilities and enables new thinking.

To re-establish Internet leadership, we need to once again create a new playing field that is “way out in front”.• Strategy 1: Invest in dramatically increasing capacity

• Raw capacity on optical networks is a key enabler• Must deliver high speed flows at fraction of current cost• Once again create massive capacity for innovation that

breaks from commoditized business models

• Strategy 2: Open the network software stack itself to innovation • Adopt “Software Defined Networking” and push aggressively

with broad deployments• Create open national operating environments that welcome

disruptive technology at scale

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Internet2 Network 100G InfrastructureBy the numbers…50+ colocation facilities250+ amplification racks17,500 miles community dark fiber8.8 Tbps of optical capacity40+ planned SDN nodes-5 complete100+ Gbps of IP capacity10 Juniper T1600 routers (R&E)7 Juniper MX960’s (peering).7->1 Petabytes a day of traffic300+ Ciena 6500 optical elements8 International peering points100 Global network collaborators

Partners: ESnet, NOAA, NSF/GENI35+ state and regional networks

• GENI - Global Environment for Network

Innovations

- NFS funded

- Virtual lab for network research at scale

• Phoebus – High-Performance Data Transfer

- Supports Dynamic Circuit Networks like ION

• perfSONAR –Performance Measurement

- Open performance monitoring framework

- Department of Energy, Internet2, GEANT, RNP

• NDDI – Network Development and Deployment

Initiative

- Stanford University, Indiana University, Internet2

- Software Defined Networking (SDN)

- OpenFlow protocol

- Open Science, Scholarship and Services Exchange

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Internet2

Network Development and Deployment Initiative

© 2011 Internet2

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

AMERICASCANARIE (Canada)CEDIA (Ecuador)CNTI (Venezuela)CR2Net (Costa Rica)CUDI (Mexico)INNOVA|RED (Argentina)REUNA (Chile)RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil)SENACYT (Panama)

ASIA and PACIFIC RIMAARNet (Australia)ANF (Korea)CDAC, ERNET (India)CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)JAIRC (Japan)JUCC (HongKong)MYREN, MDeC (Malaysia)NECTEC, UniNet (Thailand)NREN (Nepal)

MIDDLE EASTANKABUT (UAE)Israel-IUCC (Israel)MCIT [EUN, ENSTINET] (Egypt)Qatar Foundation (Qatar)KACST (Saudi Arabia)

AFRICATENET (South Africa)TERNET (Tanzania)NUC (Nigeria)

EUROPEARNES (Slovenia)BELNET (Belgium)CARNET (Croatia)CESnet (Czech Republic)DFN (Germany)FCCN (Portugal)GARR (Italy)RENATER (France)GRNET (Greece)HEAnet (Ireland)HUNGARNET (Hungary)JISC, JANET (United Kingdom)PSNC, PIONIER (Poland)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxemburg)RIPN (Russia)SANET (Slovakia)SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)

Multi-NationalAAU (Africa)APAN (Asia - Pacific)CKLN (Caribbean)CLARA (Latin America and Caribbean)DANTE (Europe)NORDUnet (Nordic Countries)TERENA (Europe)UbuntuNet Alliance (Africa)University of the West Indies (Caribbean)

PERN (Pakistan)REANNZ (New Zealand)SingAREN (Singapore)TWAREN (Taiwan)VinaREN (Vietnam)

Internet2 Net+ Services: Building Value on the Network

• Identity Federation• Security Services• Cloud Services• Collaboration Services• Virtual Organization Support• US-UCAN