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April 21, 2023
Internet2:Infraestructura y AplicacionesInternet2:Infraestructura y AplicacionesAna Preston Program Manager, Internet2 International
JT RedIRIS 2002
Salamanca, España
Ana Preston Program Manager, Internet2 International
JT RedIRIS 2002
Salamanca, España
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Outline for today’s talk
Quick Overview of Internet2
Focus Areas - highlights
Backbone Infrastructure
Applications
Conclusions / Q&A
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Research & Education
Universities strive for qualitative and quantitative improvements:
• In support of research • In support of teaching and learning
how to accelerate the change in technologies and applications on the internet to support new demands for the research and education community?
how can new technologies be incorporated into the existing Internet? (think back in when the Internet started…)
• Stanford -- the Internet protocols• NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet• CERN -- the WWW protocols• University of Illinois -- the Web browser
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Research andDevelopment
Commercialization
Partnerships
Privatization
Internet Development Spiral
Today’s Internet
Internet2
Source: Ivan Moura Campos
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Internet2: Mission and Goals
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s internet.• Enable new generation of applications• Create leading edge R&E network capability• Transfer technology and experience to the global
production Internet
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Internet2 Universities202 University Members, November 2002
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University Leadership – Collaborative Partnership
200+ university members with commitments from their Presidents/Chancellors/Rectors
• 60+ corporate members• Over 40 Affiliate Members
– Government Research Agencies
• Organization - Not for profit (not commercial) – UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development. Internet2 is a UCAID project.
• Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy (industry, government, international)
– Support applications developers and users– Provide national-scope advanced networking capabilities for
universities, research institutes– Spread availability of new networking technology
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Internet2 Focus Areas
Applications
Engineering
Middleware
Network Infrastructure
Partnerships
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Internet2 Focus Areas
Advanced Network Infrastructure
Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
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University-led Federal agency-led
Developing education and research driven
applications
Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications
Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop
infrastructure
Funding research testbeds and agency research networks
Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced
research and education applications
Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative
Internet2 NGI
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National Networks
Federal Backbone Networks• DREN• ESnet• NREN• SuperNet
vBNS
Abilene• The name of Internet2’s network infrastructure• Apr 1998: Project announced at White House• Jan 1999: Production status for network
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Typical Internet2 University Network Connection
University Campus
University Campus
University Campus
Regional Network622 Mbps-2.4 Gbps
Internet2 Backbones(2.4 - 10 Gbps)
155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps
155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps
155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps155 Mbps – 2.4 Gbps
Department
100 Mbps100 Mbps
Lab or Classroom
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Abilene NetworkLogical Map
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Internet2 GigaPoPs31 as of November 2002
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Abilene: Partnership approach
The Abilene Network is a UCAID project done in partnership with
• Cisco Systems (routers, switches, and access)• Juniper Networks (routers)• Nortel Networks (SONET kit)• Qwest Communications (SONET & DWDM circuits, co-location)
• Indiana University (network operations center)
• Internet2 Test & Evaluation Centers (ITECs)– North Carolina and Ohio
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Abilene – October, 2002
IP-over-DWDM (OC-192c) and IP-over-SONET backbone (OC-48c)
50 direct connections (OC-3c 10-Gbps)• 4 (soon 6) OC-48c & 1 Gig Eth connections• 2 10-Gbps (10 Gig Eth) connections pending
– OC-192 SONET also supported
• 23 connections at OC-12c or higher• Number of ATM connections soon down to 7
219 participants – research univs. & labs• All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico
Expanded access• 54 sponsored participants and 25 state education networks
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Next Generation Abilene
•Partnership with Qwest extended thru 2006
•Juniper T640 routers selected for backbone• 10/11 next generation router nodes in place; 12th location pending
– 2 racks in each location (Juniper T640 router & 4 measurement servers)– OC-48c SONET interconnects to Cisco 12008 routers– Very pleased to date with new router performance and interoperability
with 1st generation backbone
•10-Gbps backbone deployment has started this Fall• Transcontinental 10-Gbps ’s:
6 ’s connected to network– DC-NYC-Chicago-Indy-KC-Sunnyvale CA-Los Angeles– First outage (3.5 hours): fiber cut in NYC– ITEC network performance validation test: 8 Gbps of 2-way traffic (v4
and v6 mix) transmitted without loss or reordering – Sunnyvale to San Diego
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Next Generation Abilene – more
•Incremental, non-disruptive transition
Upgrade Schedule Overview• Aug/Sep – New backbone routers installed• Sep/Oct – ‘First wave’ turn-up• Fall 2002 – Connector & peer circuits migrated to new
routers• 2003 – Remaining 10-Gbps ’s commissioned
•Advanced service foci–Native, high-performance IPv6–Enhanced, differentiated measurement–Rapid restoration for resiliency
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Native IPv6 deployment
•Abilene is now running native IPv6 over the entire Cisco 12008 and Juniper T640 backbone
• Dual stack mode• IS-ISv6 used for internal routing
•Significant number of peers and connectors already have converted
•Tunnel support consolidated• IU-NOC provides support for existing tunnels; Not accepting any new tunnels
•Abilene provided addressing • 2001:468::/35 from ARIN for participants – 63% allocated• 3ffe:3700::/24 from 6bone for SEGP / sponsored users
•Native IPv6 (UCSD iGrid demo: 400 Mbps v6 SD-AMS)
•Kudos to Abilene NOC, IPv6 WG, Cisco, and Juniper
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Abilene native IPv6 peerings – October, 2002
Connectors (12)•Great Plains Network
•Indiana Gigapop
•MAX
•NYSERNet
•Oregon Gigapop
•Pittsburgh Gigapop
•SDSC
•WiscREN
•NoX
•South Florida Gigapop
•Front Range Gigapop
•ONEnet
Peers/Exchange Points (9)
•6TAP
•APAN/TransPAC
•CUDI
•JGNv6/WIDE
•SingAREN
•SURFNET
•vBNS+
•AMPATH
•CA*NET(3)
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More key aspects of next generation Abilene backbone - I
Resiliency• Moving from SONET rings to unprotected ’s is significant• Collaboration apps demand convergence times of ~100 ms• Faster converging IP-based IGP as ultimate solution
– v4 unicast IGP switch from OSPF to IS-IS
Differentiated measurement capabilities• Starting w/four dedicated servers at each node
– Local data collection to capture data at times of network instability
• Enhance active probing – Now: latency & jitter, loss, reachability (Surveyor)– Regular TCP/UDP throughput tests – ~1 Gbps
• Separate server for E2E performance beacon
• Enhance passive measurement– Now: SNMP (NOC) & traffic matrix/type (Netflow)– Routing (BGP & IGP)– Optical splitter taps on backbone links at select location(s)
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Sacramento
Los Angeles
Washington
STAR TAP/Star LightAPAN/TransPAC†, CA*net4, CERN, NAUKAnet, GEMnet, HARNET, HEANET, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SingAREN, TAnet2
NYCMCA*net3,
GEANT*,HEANET,
NORDUnet
Pacific WaveAARNET, APAN/TransPAC† CA*net4, TANET2
SNVAGEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE
LOSAUNINET
AMPATHANSP, REUNA, RNP2, RETINA
OC3->OC12
El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso)CUDI
San Diego (CALREN2)CUDI
•ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, JANET, NORDUNET, RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS•† WIDE/JGN, IMnet, CERNet, CSTnet,
09 January 2002
Abilene International Peering (October 2002)
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Abilene international connectivity model
Abilene is a GTRN - Global Terabit Research Network -partner • Already peering with GTRN router in New York City
Peering at major int’l EPs in U.S. encouraged• Chicago: Star Light (migration from STAR TAP)• Seattle: Pacific Wave • Miami: AMPATH• New York City: MAN LAN (GigE/10GigE switch)10 Gig Ethernet to Star Light now and P/WAVE when ready
Direct BGP peering preferred• via Layer-2 EP media or direct connection to Abilene router
ATM support generally ends by Sept 2003 • No new ATM peers
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GTRN: Current Infrastructure
•DANTE-provided router in NYC in GTRN AS
•DANTE-provided 2.5gbps links across Atlantic to GEANT
•Abilene providing tunnel between New York, (Chicago), Seattle
•NSF-funded StarLight will provide GNAP
•Pacific Wave hosting GNAP in Seattle
•Global NOC at Indiana University
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NGA international update
IEEAF (Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation) transatlantic donations – www.ieeaf.org
• 10-Gbps (unprotected) and OC-12c SONET links ’s from Los Angeles to Amsterdam!
• Now links Abilene in NYC and SURFnet in Amsterdam• Joint effort in time for iGrid2002, Amsterdam (9/2002)• Working collaboratively to extend reach in Europe
–GEANT and GTRN
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Abilene Network objectives - 2003
Advanced Services• Multicast - high performance• IPv6 - native, high performance• Resiliency• Security
Measurement• Active & passive capabilities• e2e performance initiative support• Abilene Observatory: correlated data archive for network research
Experimentation and collaboration• Abilene Observatory: experiment/overlay co-location• TeraGrid interconnection (LA and Chicago)• 'Lambda Grid' experimentation• International connectivity
– IEEAF collaboration (Europe, other regions?)– MAN LAN exchange point in NYC
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Optical networking technology drivers
Computational science: emerging interdiscipline • Now: Bandwidth + distributed data sensing and storage• Increasingly distributed data collection and storage• NSF Distributed Terascale Facility: TeraGrid Project
At end of aggressive period of fiber construction on the national & metro scales in U.S.
• Now rapid industry contraction, capital crisises, bankruptcies• Glut of conduit and fiber, but not of bandwidth
Many university campuses and regional GigaPoPs already use dark fiber
• Much metro DWDM/GigE and some regional (state based) DWDM
Optical transport is the focus with switching on horizon
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U.S. R&E optical networking scaling factors
11 Next Generation Abilene routers
~50 Abilene connectors
~220 Abilene participants • Research universities & labs
But…
30-60 DWDM access nodes in leading viable carriers’ U.S. networks
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Regional optical fanout
In the next generation architecture, regional & state based optical networking projects are critical
Three-level hierarchy remains vital• National backbone, GigaPoPs (ARNs), Campuses
Close collaboration with the GigaPoPs• Regional Optical Networking project
U.S. carrier DWDM access is now not nearly as widespread as with SONET circa 1998
• 30-60 cities for DWDM• ~120 cities for SONET
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UCAID objectives for national fiber optical networking facility
1. With partners, help build and operate a world-class,
national-scale optical networking facility • p2p ’s
• IP/optical experimentation & protocol development
• Operational requirements (over time)
2. Serve all of higher education• Coordinate closely with regional optical networking
initiatives (Quilt RONCO project)
3. Focus on optical transport initially
Continue to examine prospects for a national fiber optical networking facility with key partners
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More information on Abilene
www.internet2.edu/abilene
Contact:
Steve Corbató [email protected]
Director, Backbone Network Infrastructure
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Internet2 Focus Areas
Advanced Network Infrastructure
Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
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Internet2 Middleware Initiative – middleware.internet2.edu
Middleware: A layer of software between the network and the applications
•Middleware Architecture Committee for Education•Early Harvest and Early Adopters•Internet2 PKI Labs•Shibboleth (authentication)•Computational middleware (Beta Grid)•Medical middleware•Directories
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Internet2 Focus Areas
Advanced Network Infrastructure
Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
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Engineering Working Groups
End to End Performance
Technologies• IPv6• Measurement• Multicast• Quality of Service• Routing• Security• Topology
http://www.internet2.edu/html/working-groups.html
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End-to-End Performance Initiativehttp://e2epi.internet2.edu/index.shtml
To enable the researchers, faculty, students and staff who use high performance networks to obtain optimal performance from the current infrastructure on a consistent basis. Raw Connectivity Applications
Performance
•True End-to-End Performance requires a system approachuser perception, OS, Host IP stack, Host network card, …LAN, Campus, regional network/GigaPoP, link to I2 national backbones….all the way to International connections!
•E2E piPEline: Performance Environment System:•To allow end-users and network operators to determine performance capabilities, locate problems, and contact the right person to get a problem resolved using a collaborative approach.
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Internet2 Focus Areas
Advanced Network Infrastructure
Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
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The new science: e-science
Science used to about test tubes, wet labs and big instruments
But increasingly science is moving to networks and computers; Applications that harness the power of the network at the edges
Science is more global and distributed
•A virtual supercomputer
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm/
http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/
Arecibo Radio Telescope
folding@home
• running on 500,000+PCs, ~1000 CPU years p/day
• over half a million CPU years so far
•22 teraflops sustained 24x7
SETI@home
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Virtual Observatory
www.voforum.org
Discovery process will rely on advanced visualization and data mining tools
Not tied to a single brick and mortar location
Will cross correlate existing multi-spectral databases petabytes in size
No new telescopes or radio dishes. Just big networks interconnecting large database
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Attributes of Advanced Apps
Provide qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning
Common attributes:• Remote instrumentation and interactive
collaboration • Distributed data storage and data mining• Large-scale, multi-site computation • Real-time access to remote resources• Dynamic data visualization• Shared virtual reality• Tele-immersion• Digital Libraries, virtual labs, etc…• …..
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Internet2 approach: Applications Working Groups
•Health Sciences
•Veterinary Medicine
•Arts & Humanities
•Non-trad’l Theses
•Arts Performance
•High Energy and Nuclear Physics
•GIS
• …
•Remote Instrumentation
•Voice over IP
•Digital Video
•Videoconferencing
•ResearchChannel
•Network Storage
• …
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Sciences and Engineering highlights – apps.internet2.edu
NEES: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation• Earthquake research using real buildings and computer simulations• Remote control of physical experiments requires extremely reliable
and consistent network characteristics• Video will be crucial: both for conferencing and data collection
HENP-WG: High Energy and Nuclear Physics Working Group• Terabytes of data (1,000,000,000,000 or 1x1012) per experiment from
CERN (Switzerland). • bulk data transfers that are extremely resistant to data loss. Work on
several protocols that take advantage of parallel streams and good neighbor practices (passive QOS).
Astronomy: eVLBI - Electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Remote-WG: Cross Disciplinary Remote Instrumentation Working Group
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Remote Instrumentation and Data Analysis
Mauna Kea, Hawai’i, USA Cerro Pachon, Chile
Large scientific projects increasingly draw on resources from many countries.
Scientists can use high-performance networks for remote instrument control and to pool computing resources for data analysis, improving ease of use and lowering costs.
An international collaboration (US, Australia, U.K., Canada, Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
NSF funds US participation
The Gemini Observatory – Twin Telescopes
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VLBI - Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Astronomers collect data about a star from many different earth based antennae and send the data to a specialized computer for analysis on a 24x7 basis.
VLBI is not as concerned with data loss as they are with long term stability.
The end goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20 antennae that are located around the globe.
Interesting:Successfully ran 788 Mbps sustained test between sites in U.S. Working on prototype experiment to test their ability to run data to Europe and Japan.
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Health Sciences http://www.internet2.edu/health/
3D Brain Map • Visualization of data: real-time MRI, previously
stored data, etc.• Computational information transferred to
supercomputers and used to understand brain functions in real time
• Very large multi-dimensional, multi-modal, time-varying data sets
• University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)• Extremely large data sets and repositories• Dynamically generate 3D visualizations from
medical records• Generating 36Gbytes/day, so new models for
search, retrieval and analysis will be necessary
• http://birn.ncrr.nih.gov/and http://www.nbirn.net/
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Digital Video – Distance Ed
Tele-presence environments
•Real-time interactions with very high quality audio and MPEG-2 video
• as needed “meetings” connecting faculty and staff across the ocean
Plain and Simple:Language/cultural Exchanges
• CCIU World Tour/Univ. of Pennsylvania
•Learning foreign languages through cultural exchanges and problem based experiential learning
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Arts and Humanities
University of Oklahoma Master Classes• High fidelity video and audio via MPEG2• Optimized latency, audio/video
synchronization• Connecting Oklahoma with the New
World Symphony in Miami, Florida
Zuckerman InteractiveA collaboration with:
• Manhattan School of Music • Columbia University• National Arts Centre of Canada• National Research Council of Canada
Photo by R. Andrew Lepley
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The Internet2 Commons
An effort to encourage and support large-scale, distributed collaboration for R&E
• Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration
• Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning
• Share best practices• Guide to implementations• facilitate development &
deployment of projects
• For Internet2 members and their international partners
• commons.internet2.edu
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Internet2 Focus Areas
Advanced Network Infrastructure
Middleware
Engineering
Advanced Applications
Partnerships
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Partnerships:Internet2 International
Strategic importance to Internet2
Ensure global interoperability • of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications
Enable global collaboration • in research and education providing/promoting the development
of an advanced networking environment internationally
Build effective partnerships in other countries
With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding
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Asia-PacificAAIREP (Australia)APAN (Asia-Pacific)APAN-KR (Korea)APRU (Asia-Pacific)CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China)JAIRC (Japan)JUCC (Hong Kong)NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand)SingAREN (Singapore)TAnet2 (Taiwan)
International MoU Partners
AmericasCANARIE (Canada)CEDIA (Ecuador)CRNET (Costa Rica)CNTI (Venezuela)CUDI (Mexico)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP2/ANSP (Brazil)SENACYT (Panama)
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)RCST (Portugal)RedIRIS (Spain)RESTENA (Luxembourg)SANET (Slovakia)Stichting SURF (Netherlands)SWITCH (Switzerland)TERENA (Europe)JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)
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MoU Partners
Newest Internet2 MoU Partners: Ecuador (CEDIA), Slovakia (SANET), Venezuela (CNTI)
In discussion
America:• Uruguay, Colombia• Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba
•Europe:• Russia
Africa:• South Africa
Asia:• Malaysia, India
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Resources – more information
On the Web• www.internet2.edu• apps.internet2.edu• www.internet2.edu/abilene
Email• [email protected]
Contact us!Ana Preston [email protected]
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Conclusion
Leading-edge, high-performance network infrastructure is being put in place to support science, research, teaching and learning in countries around the world
As a global community, we need to work even more closely together to ensure support for global applications on an end to end basis
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¡ GRACIAS !
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