R&D Internet2 still faring well
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Nearly 20 years after its launch, Internet2 is quietly humming along on university campuses across the country, doing its R&D work and connecting researchers who might otherwise not be able to share information so readily.
Contrary to any misinterpretations of the Internet2 mission statement, it was not intended to be a replacement or “new” Internet. And because it has been rather quiet lately, some people may have mistakenly figured it was dead.
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“One thing to always remember about Internet2 is it’s a complicated ecosystem that starts with the university network and aggregates into state and regional networks and then a national network and connects to research networks all over the world,” says Dave Lambert, president and CEO of Internet2, the company behind the consortium.
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Many of the technologies that constitute the regular Internet are up to 30 years old, such as TCP/IP, Ethernet and sendmail. Internet2 has been building new high speed network connections using a clean sheet design
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Internet2 has in aggregate 8.8 Terabits of capacity on the network, with 100 gigabit connections to participating universities, all via an OpenFlow/SDN network. Virtualized networking and OpenFlow came out of National Science Foundation projects at Stanford University.
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One of the more interesting non-bandwidth projects to come from Internet2 is Shibboleth, a form of single sign-on where once you log in, the network handles connections to any site requiring a login.
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Askren says identity management is as important to researchers as connectivity, processing and storage. “In a world where we leverage the cloud for research collaboration, it becomes extremely important that we have effective identity management to validate who we are and security concerns out there. It needs to be effective and unencumbering,”
