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Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking Workshop 1: South Carolina and Georgia Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Ph.D. Senior Director for Research Engagement and Development [email protected] 8 April 2015 Overview of Internet2
INTERNET2
A Collaborative Community
accelerating research &
education with advanced
technologies
www.Internet2.edu Top challenges we face
Globalization
Distributed Science
Education Costs
Lifelong Learning
Changing
Competitive
Landscape
Risk Management
3 – 4/8/15, © 2015 Internet2 www.Internet2.edu 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 www.Internet2.edu Innovation
Powered by Community
www.Internet2.edu Of Unique Identities
…and Across The
Network
A Community
In The Cloud…
www.Internet2.edu The Internet2 Community: An Unparalleled Human Network
Nearly 450 member institutions
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"Unhindered
collaboration,
absolutely no
barriers. It’s a
community where
ideas are shared
and new
technologies are
built.”
—Joe Freddoso,
CEO, MCNC
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www.Internet2.edu The Community: Enumerated
Internet2 • Higher EducaTon (280) • Affiliate (66) • Industry (87) • Research & EducaTon Network (42) • Higher EducaTon (473) • AddiTonal Gov’t Nonprofit, Research (30) • Sponsored Partners (209) • 8M students, faculty and staff served through federated idenTty management InCommon Trust & IdenTty NET+ • 39+ Community Cloud Services Cloud Services www.Internet2.edu Internet2 Members and Partners
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
"The idea of
being able to
collaborate with
anybody,
anywhere,
without
constraint…"
—Jim Bottum,
CIO, Clemson
University
Focused on member technology needs
since 1996
www.Internet2.edu Connections and communities
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Internet2
www.Internet2.edu 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
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www.Internet2.edu www.Internet2.edu 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 2015 100+ 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
www.Internet2.edu Innovation Platform Collaborators
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
Supporting research
and education networks
Innovation Campus
pilot sites
www.Internet2.edu 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 GENI Experiments Your Research StaTc Layer 2 Dynamic Layer 2 ? TradiTonal Services InnovaTon Services TradiTonal Switch Substrate So^ware Defined Networking Substrate OpTcal System Dark Fiber [ 15 ]
GENI Science DMZ
Internet2 innovaTon backbone delivered as 100G L1 Nx100G High-­‐Performance Layer 2/3 Switch/Router Nx10G TradiTonal regional and commodity providers Nx10G TradiTonal Campus Border Router SDN Control Server Performance Node Nx100G Dedicated science switches/servers in labs with high-­‐speed storage and network access Nx10G TradiTonal L3 Campus Border Security Nx10G Campus Enterprise Network fasterdata.es.net
www.Internet2.edu Putting Research on the Internet2 Fast Track
Advanced Layer 3 Services
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.
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
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www.Internet2.edu Backbone for Building Large-Scale Research
Environments – Like XSEDENet
Overlay networks
Example: GENI
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Connects researchers
to GENI backbone
infrastructure, using
Internet2 Advanced
Layer 2 Services
Layer 2 connectivity
allows for
experimentation with
non-TCP/IP protocols
Creating research project-specific network environments,
using Internet2 infrastructure and services
Example: NOAA
Regional
R&E Network
Uses dedicated 10 GE
lambdas to connect
regional supercomputing
facilities
www.Internet2.edu A Better Cloud – By and For
Research and Education
www.Internet2.edu Growing Ecosystem of Cloud Services & Providers
www.Internet2.edu Internet2 NET+
Vetted
By Members for
Quality, Broad
Applicability, and
Security
A Better Cloud for Research & Education
Integrated
Core Research &
Education
Applications like
Single Sign On
Delivered
To Users Via
Advanced Internet2
Network
www.Internet2.edu Internet2 NET+
Standard
Enterprise Cloud
Solutions for Turnkey
Implementation
A Better Cloud for Research & Education
Customized
To Research & Education’s
Unique Needs
Broadened
Capabilities for
collaboration and
discovery
www.Internet2.edu Why Internet2 NET+ Cloud?
Over $200,000,000
3,500+
In operating benefit for Research
and Education across institutions
adopting NET+ services
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
35
8
Average number of campuses
collaborating on a service validation
effort before it is generally available
Services proposed for
validation by Internet2
member campuses for
inclusion in generally
available Internet2
NET+ portfolio
www.Internet2.edu NET+ example: Amazon Web Services
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www.Internet2.edu ®
Foundation for Trust & Identity
473
Academic
Participants
2
209
Sponsored
Partners
0
2000+
15
8 million
Registered
Service Providers
Individuals served
by federated IdM
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© 2014 Internet2
Trust, Identity and Middleware
•  Provides guest Single Sign-On
•  Informs 3rd-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
www.Internet2.edu 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 – [email protected]
–  Web Presence – www.internet2.edu/research
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www.Internet2.edu 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
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www.Internet2.edu Research data sets and services
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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
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www.Internet2.edu Broadening the Reach Program
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NSF-funded multi-year effort led by Internet2
–  Support of Campus Cyberinfrastructure at Non-Research Intensive and EPSCoR
Institutions, NSF-1342995; PI: Stephen Wolff; Co-PI: Gwendolyn Huntoon
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Goals
–  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
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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,
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