Overview of Internet2

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1 Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking Workshop 1: South Carolina and Georgia Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Ph.D. Senior Director for Research Engagement and Development 8 April 2015 Overview of Internet2

2 INTERNET2 A Collaborative Community accelerating research & education with advanced technologies

3 Top challenges we face Globalization Distributed Science Education Costs Lifelong Learning Changing Competitive Landscape Risk Management 3 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

4 Seven strategic focus areas Advanced network and network services leadership Net+: services above the network U.S. UCAN NaTonal/Regional collaboraton Global reach and leadership Research community development and engagement Industry partnership development and engagement 4 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

5 Innovation Powered by Community

6 Of Unique Identities and Across The Network A Community In The Cloud

7 The Internet2 Community: An Unparalleled Human Network Nearly 450 member institutions 93,000+ community anchor institutions "Unhindered collaboration, absolutely no barriers. It s a community where ideas are shared and new technologies are built. Joe Freddoso, CEO, MCNC Core staff International partners Initiatives, working groups, special interest groups

8 The Community: Enumerated Internet2 Higher EducaTon (280) Affiliate (66) Industry (87) Research & EducaTon Network (42) InCommon Trust & IdenTty Higher EducaTon (473) AddiTonal Gov t Nonprofit, Research (30) Sponsored Partners (209) 8M students, faculty and staff served through federated identty management NET+ Cloud Services 39+ Community Cloud Services

9 Internet2 Members and Partners "The idea of being able to collaborate with anybody, anywhere, without constraint " Jim Bottum, CIO, Clemson University 280 Higher Education members 66 Affiliate members 42 R&E Network members 87 Industry members 100+ Int l partners reaching over 100+ Nations 93,000+ Community anchor institutions Focused on member technology needs since 1996

10 Connections and communities 10 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

11 International reach US-based Exchange Points StarLight, Chicago IL MAN LAN, New York NY NGIX-East, College Park MD AtlanticWave (distributed) AMPATH, Miami FL PacificWave-S, Los Angeles CA PacificWave-Bay, Sunnyvale CA, Palo Alto CA PacificWave-N, Seattle WA 11 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

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13 NETWORK BY THE NUMBERS ONE 100G NATIONWIDE INNOVATION NETWORK 100s USER CONTROLLED VIRTUAL NETWORKS 17 Juniper MX960 routers in support of Advanced Layer 3 IP and Peering Network 32 Brocade and Juniper switches in support of Advanced Layer 2 Service Network 49 current colocaton facilites to interconnect with the advanced natonal backbone 250+ optcal amplificaton sites that can become future on ramps to the network 15,717 miles of newly acquired dark- fiber 8.8 TBps of optcal capacity today, capacity for more than 20 TBps by At least 100 Gbps of hybrid Layer 2 and Layer 3 capacity on every network path 300+ Over 300 Ciena AcTveFlex 6500 optcal network elements 2,400 miles partnered capacity with Zayo CommunicaTons bringing 100 Gbps technology to the Northern Tier region 100G NATIONWIDE SDN-POWERED INNOVATION PLATFORM

14 Innovation Platform Collaborators Supporting research and education networks Innovation Campus pilot sites Internet2 Innovation Platform: 100GigE Layer 2 connection SDN support Science DMZ "To be in a time where we can merge the research data with the theory is very exciting." Michael Lynch Biology Professor, IU

15 Innovation Platform, Innovative Standards Unlocking a whole new dimension of innovation and discovery, with abundant bandwidth, fewer bottlenecks, and a new class of control Software Defined Networking R&E IP TR- CPS IP Network Layer 3 TradiTonal Services TradiTonal Switch Substrate Your Research StaTc Layer 2 Dark Fiber Dynamic Layer 2 OpTcal System GENI Experiments GENI InnovaTon Services? So^ware Defined Networking Substrate Internet2 innovaton backbone delivered as 100G L1 TradiTonal regional and commodity providers Science DMZ Nx100G Nx10G High- Performance Layer 2/3 Switch/Router Nx10G TradiTonal Campus Border Router Nx10G TradiTonal L3 Campus Border Security Nx10G Campus Enterprise Network SDN Control Server Performance Node Nx100G Dedicated science switches/servers in labs with high- speed storage and network access fasterdata.es.net [ 15 ]

16 Putting Research on the Internet2 Fast Track Internet2 s mission is to ensure that researchers have access to the advanced networks, tools and support required for the next generation of collaborative discovery and innovation. Advanced Layer 3 Services Specialized, dependable IP solutions, engineered specifically for research and education Advanced Layer 2 Services Global collaboration support for data-intensive science via existing connection or dedicated port Advanced Layer 1 Services Research Wave program, optical channels between nodes on the entire Internet2 footprint Advanced collaboration tools Internet2 Global Video Services in cooperation with leading national R&E networks [ 16 ]

17 Backbone for Building Large-Scale Research Environments Like XSEDENet Overlay networks Example: GENI Creating research project-specific network environments, using Internet2 infrastructure and services Example: NOAA Connects researchers to GENI backbone infrastructure, using Internet2 Advanced Layer 2 Services Layer 2 connectivity allows for experimentation with non-tcp/ip protocols Regional R&E Network Uses dedicated 10 GE lambdas to connect regional supercomputing facilities [ 17 ]

18 A Better Cloud By and For Research and Education

19 Growing Ecosystem of Cloud Services & Providers

20 Internet2 NET+ A Better Cloud for Research & Education Vetted By Members for Quality, Broad Applicability, and Security Integrated Core Research & Education Applications like Single Sign On Delivered To Users Via Advanced Internet2 Network

21 Internet2 NET+ A Better Cloud for Research & Education Standard Enterprise Cloud Solutions for Turnkey Implementation Customized To Research & Education s Unique Needs Broadened Capabilities for collaboration and discovery

22 Why Internet2 NET+ Cloud? Over $200,000,000 In operating benefit for Research and Education across institutions adopting NET+ services 3,500+ Research and Education Institutions across the US that can utilize most NET+ cloud services 250+ Member institutions participating in building business models, ensuring federated access, security, accessibility, performance & delivery 8 Average number of campuses collaborating on a service validation effort before it is generally available 35 Services proposed for validation by Internet2 member campuses for inclusion in generally available Internet2 NET+ portfolio

23 NET+ example: Amazon Web Services [ 23 ]

24 Foundation for Trust & Identity million Academic Participants Sponsored Partners Registered Service Providers Individuals served by federated IdM [ 24 ] 2014 Internet2

25 Trust, Identity and Middleware Provides guest Single Sign-On Informs 3 rd -party authorization for access to protected resources Honors privacy of visiting user Allows Collaborative Organizations to securely co-operate key tools Secure and effective framework for science and research objectives Provides SSL and certificates Federated identity management for US R&E community (7.8 million users) Affordable multifactor authentication Inter-institutional task management Enterprise access administration Addresses organizational diversity common to Universities

26 Research Support Center Mission Create a highly visible, easy to use, proactive research support organization that collaborates with existing research support activities, particularly those associated with regional networks and University campuses Basic infrastructure Contact mechanism rs@internet2.edu Web Presence /8/15, 2015 Internet2

27 Research Support Programs General Research Support Provide a clearinghouse for researchers who have questions regarding how to utilized Internet2 resources Research Wave Program Provides dedicated access to Internet2 Network services at a reduced cost for a specific time period using a proposal submission process Partnerships for sponsored research proposals Letters of support and commitment Confidential proposal review and comment 27 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

28 Research data sets and services Deepfield Analytics services Network and cloud service analytics for massive amounts of data from campus and regional networks more enterprise but useful research support tool The Internet2 Observatory (under renovation) Collated, archived network measurement data for studying a large-scale, operational network in ways not possible in laboratory or commercial network environment Data collections covering usage, netflow, routing, latency, throughput, router, syslog and topology perfsonar Standards-based measurement infrastructure Supports federated network data collection Ability to instrument and debug end-to-end infrastructure Internet2 perfsonar offerings: perfsonar-ps, ps-performance Toolkit 28 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

29 NSF-funded multi-year effort led by Internet2 Support of Campus Cyberinfrastructure at Non-Research Intensive and EPSCoR Institutions, NSF ; PI: Stephen Wolff; Co-PI: Gwendolyn Huntoon Goals Broadening the Reach Program Focus on smaller schools and those in EPSCoR states Build campus cyberinfrastructure for data-driven scholarship Build relationships between regional optical networks and connector campuses around research and scholarship needs Build relationships between research intensive institutions and national support groups like ACI-REFs and XSEDE Campus Champions, and their regional neighbors Develop good infrastructure proposals to the NSF Modes of interaction Regional workshops with topics like grant writing for CC*XXX programs, building research networking infrastructure with science DMZs, measuring performance with perfsonar, 29 4/8/15, 2015 Internet2

30 10/4-7/2015