What is the goal of internet2?

UNLV and Internet2

Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium comprising (as of June, 2011) 221 U.S. universities, in cooperation with 45 leading corporations, 66 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning, 35 regional and state research and education networks and more than 100 national research and education networking organizations representing over 50 countries.

The Internet2 community has identified four goals that will serve as the means to fulfill their mission.

Goal I – Design, operate, and continually advance a leading-edge research and education network as a national asset.

Goal II – Provide researchers and scholars with the tools and support they need to envision and execute the next generation of collaborative discovery.

Goal III – Maintain vigorous partnership, outreach, and advocacy programs to jointly develop, promote, and share the transformational power of cyberinfrastructure throughout the communities in which we work and live.

Goal IV – Operate the Internet2 organization as an exemplary membership organization with empowered leadership, financial transparency and member engagement at all levels in order to achieve the membership's shared objectives as articulated through participatory governance and continuous assessment.

Internet2 Network Backbone

Often when people say that they want to use Internet2, they mean that they want to use one of the high-speed nation-wide networks connecting Internet2 member sites.

UNLV connects to other Internet2 sites automatically via its links the Advanced Hybrid Optical and Packet Network provided by Internet2. (Access to high bandwidth is provided whenever a user at one Internet2 site addresses a resource at another Internet2 site.) To view the infrastructure available at various locations please refer to the Internet2 Network Infrastructure Topology map.

To view current backbone traffic please refer to the Advanced Hybrid Optical and Packet Network map.

UNLV is participating in Internet2 to allow our high-speed connectivity between our campus and other Internet2 sites to facilitate research and collaborative work that would not be possible at the transmission rates allowed by the commodities Internet. We also want to participate in the development of the next generation of Internet technology.

What do I need to do to use the high-speed Internet2 network?

You have been using the high-speed network whenever you connect to any of the over 200 universities and additional government agencies that are members of Internet2. Your use of these high-speed networks is automatic. You don't need to do anything different than you do to use the commodities Internet. In fact, you have no influence over how your transmissions are routed.

There is a belief in some quarters that there are places on the Internet that can only be reached via Internet2. This belief is unfounded. Sites on the Internet are identified by IP numbers or addresses. These sites can usually be reached by many different routes. When you access Web or other resources at, say, Indiana University from the UNLV campus you connect via the high-speed Abilene backbone. When you connect to the same site through your cable modem at home, you connect through the lower-speed commodities network.

What kinds of resources are being developed for use on Internet2?

The Internet2 Web site contains an archive of resources developed as Internet2 initiatives.

Who can I contact at UNLV for more information on Internet2?

If you have a research or education application requiring the use of a high-performance network connection, please contact Bob Thorson, Senior Systems Analyst, ext 895-1493, [email protected] to find out more about the opportunities for using Internet2 networks.

Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government. The Internet2 consortium administrative headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Emeryville, California.

As of November 2013, Internet2 has over 500 members including 251 institutions of higher education, 9 partners and 76 members from industry, over 100 research and education networks or connector organizations, and 67 affiliate members.

Internet2 operates the Internet2 Network, an Internet Protocol network using optical fiber that delivers network services for research and education, and provides a secure network testing and research environment. In late 2007, Internet2 began operating its newest dynamic circuit network, the Internet2 DCN, an advanced technology that allows user-based allocation of data circuits over the fiber-optic network.

The Internet2 Network, through its regional network and connector members, connects over 60,000 U.S. educational, research, government and "community anchor" institutions, from primary and secondary schools to community colleges and universities, public libraries and museums to health care organizations.

The Internet2 community develops and deploys network technologies for the future of the Internet. These technologies include large-scale network performance measurement and management tools, secure identity and access management tools and capabilities such as scheduling high-bandwidth, high-performance circuits.

Internet2 members serve on several advisory councils, collaborate in a variety of working groups and special interest groups, gather at spring and fall member meetings, and are encouraged to participate in the strategic planning process.

History

As the Internet gained in public recognition and popularity, universities were among the first institutions to outgrow the Internet's bandwidth limitations because of the data transfer requirements faced by academic researchers who needed to collaborate with their colleagues. Some universities wanted to support high-performance applications like data mining, medical imaging and particle physics. This resulted in the creation of the very-high-performance Backbone Network Service, or vBNS, developed in 1995 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and MCI for supercomputers at educational institutions. After the expiration of the NSF agreement, vBNS largely transitioned to providing service to the government. As a result, the research and education community founded Internet2 to serve its networking needs.

The Internet2 Project was originally established by 34 university researchers in 1996 under the auspices of EDUCOM (later EDUCAUSE), and was formally organized as the not-for-profit University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) in 1997. It later changed its name to Internet2. Internet2 is a registered trademark.

The Internet2 community, in partnership with Qwest, built the first Internet2 Network, called Abilene, in 1998 and was a prime investor in the National LambdaRail (NLR) project. During 2004–2006, Internet2 and NLR held extensive discussions regarding a possible merger. Those talks paused in spring, 2006, resumed in March, 2007, but eventually ceased in the fall of 2007, due to unresolved differences.

In 2006, Internet2 announced a partnership with Level 3 Communications to launch a brand new nationwide network, boosting its capacity from 10 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s. In October, 2007, Internet2 officially retired Abilene and now refers to its new, higher capacity network as the Internet2 Network.

In 2010, Internet2 received a $62.5 million American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT grant, which allowed Internet2 to put in place a long term IRU for fiber and upgrade the network with its own DWDM optical network system. Ciena later announced that this was the first 100G nationwide optical network. The upgrade to the new optical system was completed in December 2012.

Objectives

Internet2 provides the U.S. research and education community with a network that satisfies their bandwidth-intensive requirements. The network itself is a dynamic, robust and cost-effective hybrid optical and packet network. It furnishes a 100 Gbit/s network backbone to more than 210 U.S. educational institutions, 70 corporations and 45 non-profit and government agencies.

The objectives of the Internet2 consortium are:

• Developing and maintaining a leading-edge network.
• Fully exploiting the capabilities of broadband connections through the use of new-generation applications.
• Transferring new network services and applications to all levels of educational use, and eventually the broader Internet community.

The uses of the network span from collaborative applications, distributed research experiments, grid-based data analysis to social networking. Some of these applications are in varying levels of commercialization, such as IPv6, open-source middleware for secure network access, Layer 2 VPNs and dynamic circuit networks.

Achievements

These technologies and their organizational counterparts were not only created to make a faster alternative to the Internet. Many fields have been able to use the Abilene network to foster creativity, research, and development in a way that was not previously possible. Users of poor quality libraries can now download not only text but sound recordings, animations, videos, and other resources, which would be otherwise unavailable. Another application is the robust video conferencing now available to Internet2 participants. Neurosurgeons can now video conference with other experts in the field during an operation in a high resolution format with no apparent time lag.[citation needed]

The Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) award (not to be confused with IDEA awards) was first announced by Internet2 in 2006 as a way of recognizing those who create and use advanced network applications at their best. The judging is conducted by many universities and based upon the following criteria:

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