HPIIS Program Review The Internet2 Perspective

Doug Van Houweling

President and CEO, Internet2

25 October 2000

San Diego, CA

Outline

Internet2 background

Internet2 international connectivity

• Abilene and international peering

HPIIS program and Internet2

NSF role in international connectivity

Internet2 Background

Accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet

• Enable new applications development• Providing advanced networking environment• Technology transfer

University-led • 180 university members

In partnership with industry and government

• 70 corporate members• 40 others – growing number of government labs

Internet2 International Goals

Ensure global interoperability • of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications

Enable global collaboration • in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally

Internet2 International Connectivity

Memoranda of Understanding with similar organizations in other countries (33)

• to provide for interconnectivity with Internet2 backbones

–vBNS–Abilene

Abilene Connectivity

Abilene almost two years in operation

• Partnership of Internet2, Qwest, Cisco, Nortel and Indiana University

Connections to the backbone at 44 (with additional 8 planned)

Individual institution participation at 159 (with additional 14 in progress)

Abilene International Peering

STAR TAPAPAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, IUCC, NORDUnet, RENATER, REUNA, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2 , (HARnet?, FAPESP?)

OC12 NYCMDANTE*, JANET, NORDUnet, SURFnet CA*net3(HEAnet)

STTLCAnet3, (AARnet)

SNVA(SINET, GEMNET)

LOSASingAREN, SINET(HARNET?)

AmPATH(REUNA, CUDI?, RNP2?, RETINA?)

OC3-12El Paso, TX(CUDI)

CALREN2CUDI

*including DFN and INFN-GARR connections

International Transit Network (ITN) Project

Cooperation between STAR TAP, CANARIE, Internet2

Internet2 providing transit between non-US networks (and vBNS) across Abilene

CANARIE doing same over CA*net3

Initial implementation on Abilene and CA*net3 this week

ITN coordination

C1

S1

A1

CA*net3 - AS6509

Abilene - AS11537

C2

A2

S2

Seattle Chicago NYC

STARTAP -AS10764

e.g. A2 peering with Abilene on East Coast can transit to C1 peering with CA*net3 on West Coast.

HPIIS projects and Abilene

TransPAC• Abilene peering with APAN users over TransPAC currently at

STAR TAP ATM service

EuroLink• CERN is member of Internet2 and Primary Participant on

Abilene• IUCC peering with Abilene at STAR TAP ATM service• NORDUnet peering with Abilene in NYC• RENATER2 peering with Abilene at STAR TAP ATM service• SURFnet peering with Abilene in NYC

MIRnet• Working toward MoU with appropriate organization in Russia,

toward peering agreement with MIRnet

NSF Role

US advanced networking needs NSF support in international connectivity

• International connections costs• Support for coordination at national level

The Future of International Connectivity

Need to focus on deploying advanced capabilities across international connections

• Multicast• QoS• IPv6• Middleware

Need to focus on end2end performance