New Jersey’s College & Universities integrating technologies into instruction,

research and public service through an enhanced statewide data/video network

George LaskarisGeorge Laskaris

About NJEDge.Net

• State Research and Education Network – Provide a statewide technology infrastructure for

55 colleges, universities and K-12 schools

– Created to support new forms of technology enabled collaboration and advanced applications and to,

– Leverage the collective buying power of the membership to achieve economies of scale

Network Resources

• Statewide regional optical backbone• Broadband Internet Service Provider (1400+Mb)• Comprehensive Voice Services• Sophisticated video conferencing & distance

learning capabilities• Streaming video resources and video-on-demand• Provide regional access to Internet2 • Interoperability with the K-12 Video Portal (Access

New Jersey)• Shared access to Satellite Uplink/Downlink

Three-Tier National Three-Tier National NetworkingNetworking Model Model

• Campus Regional National• Regional Networks are the middle tier and bridge of

the Three-Tier Model• There is a critical role to be performed between a

national network and a campus network• NJEDge is a New Jersey’s Regional Network

supporting research and education

TRANSPORTTRANSPORTcampus/school access; state/regional network backbone campus/school access; state/regional network backbone

aggregation, Internet services, national network connectoraggregation, Internet services, national network connector

SHARED SERVICESSHARED SERVICESlayerlayer--3 data services, videoconferencing, voice,3 data services, videoconferencing, voice,online digital resources, shared library systems online digital resources, shared library systems middleware, quality of service, metadata toolsmiddleware, quality of service, metadata tools

SUPPORTSUPPORTtraining, consulting, technical assistancetraining, consulting, technical assistance

faculty development, community buildingfaculty development, community building

LEARNING CENTEREDLEARNING CENTEREDAPPLICATIONSAPPLICATIONS

instructional & curricular integrationinstructional & curricular integrationdigital libraries, CMS & simulations digital libraries, CMS & simulations

Important migration to Important migration to Regional Optical Networks (RONs)Regional Optical Networks (RONs)

• Now providing sufficient bandwidth to support new classes of end-to-end service– Ultra- broadband last mile connectivity– Delivering unlimited bandwidth in a cost

effective manner, and– Providing new value added services such as

peering and dynamic optical waves

Performance Strides in the Regional Tier Performance Strides in the Regional Tier are making new applications possibleare making new applications possible

• Large-scale network attached storage/DR• Academic video-on-demand content repositories• Statewide centrally hosted course management

– Sakai, Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT• Optical waves dedicated to individual researchers• Shared GRIDS and research repositories• Federated identity management

Internet2 and Next Generation Internet2 and Next Generation Networks in Higher EducationNetworks in Higher Education

• Providing “orders of magnitude” or a 100-fold increase in bandwidth capacity over current networks

• Providing advanced communications and collaborative opportunities between researchers around the world

• Enabling ambitious large-scale next generation projects and applications that support new research models

• Beginning to re-shape federal funding policies that favor diverse collaborative research paradigms

Global Lambda Integrated Facility Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)(GLIF)

Integrated Optical Lambda NetworkIntegrated Optical Lambda NetworkMany Countries are Interconnecting Optical Networks

to form a Global SuperNetwork

Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA

www.glif.is

Created in Reykjavik, Iceland Aug 2003

Internet2 International Partners

Europe-Middle EastARNES (Slovenia)BELNET (Belgium)CARNET (Croatia)CESnet (Czech Republic)DANTE (Europe)DFN-Verein (Germany)GIP RENATER (France)GRNET (Greece)HEAnet (Ireland)HUNGARNET (Hungary)INFN-GARR (Italy)Israel-IUCC (Israel)NORDUnet (Nordic Countries)POL-34 (Poland)FCCN (Portugal)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxembourg)RIPN (Russia)SANET (Slovakia)Stichting SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)TERENA (Europe)JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)Qatar Foundation Network (Qatar)

Asia-PacificAAIREP (Australia)APAN (Asia-Pacific)APAN-KR (Korea)APRU (Asia-Pacific)CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)JAIRC (Japan)JUCC (Hong Kong)NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand)NG-NZ (New Zealand)SingAREN (Singapore)TAnet2 (Taiwan)

AmericasCANARIE (Canada)CEDIA (Ecuador)CLARA (Latin America and Caribbean)CNTI (Venezuela)CR2NET (Costa Rica)CUDI (Mexico)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP [FAPESP] (Brazil)SENACYT (Panama)

Advanced Network Application Attributes

• Interactive collaboration • Real-time access to remote

resources

High Performance Group-to-Group Collaboration ; 150 sites worldwide

http://www.accessgrid.org/

Virtual Laboratories

• Space Physics & Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC)

• University of Michigan

• NSF

Arts & Humanities : Dance in the Digital Age

Case Western Reserve and

Cleveland Institute of Music:

The Bing Theater, University of Southern California

More Information

• http://www.njedge.net• http://www.internet2.edu