Advanced R&E Networking TODAY Networking Capabilities:

Megabit-per-second bandwidth IP-based services Campus-focused middleware Loose coordination across networks TOMORROW Gigabit-per-second bandwidth IP-based and Dynamic Circuit (DC) services Inter-domain middleware High coordination across networks

Advanced R&E Networking

TODAY

Applications: TV-Quality Videoconferencing

Gigabyte-class data sets among small research groups Limited access to remote scientific instruments TOMORROW Uncompressed HDTV and gigapixel displays Terabyte-class data sets among global research groups Routine, reliable, and discipline wide access to remote scientific instruments

High Speed Videoconferencing allow for richer, High-Quality: High performance networks
more natural audio and video quality. Low Latency: No lip synch issues, can use for foreign language, remote music instruction, etc. Real Time Interactive Collaboration: Learning objects can be manipulated in real time. Easy Entry Point: IP Videoconferencing is versatile and an easy way to get started.

Megaconference Jr.

Read Around the Planet

Physics Master Classes

Its more than just videoconferencing!

Digital Library Resources Remote Instrumentation Networked Instrumentation Medical Simulation Distributed Collaboratories

 Types of Applications Internet2 applications require enhanced

networking functionalitysuch as high bandwidth, low latency (delay) and jitter, and multicastnot available on our commercial Internet connections.

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 Example applications:
Grid computing Telemedicine Astronomy Tele-immersion Music Digital Video Tele-Operation of Remote Equipment

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The Grid project

Using the network as a "backplane" to build network-wide computation and data services. It enables scientific exploration, which requires intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities.
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The two biggest centers For Particle Physics

Fermilab near Chicago CERN in Geneva

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The Computing Challenge

3.5 PetaBytes / year ~108 events/year

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Telemedicine
During a surgery performed at Ohio State University, Abilene was used to conference with doctors from other parts of the country. An MRI machine can scan a patient in one location and send the data to a remote supercomputer for processing, and then deliver the resulting images to a doctor in a third location.
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Tele-health
Medical instruction Clinical practice Research

Radio Astronomy
Electronic transmission of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) data from the Haystack's Westford Observatory and NASA's Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory, which were streamed over Internet2's Abilene Network to the Haystack correlator at 512 Mbps. The live results were displayed in a 3D plot (correlation amplitude, differential Doppler, differential delay) in Pittsburgh as the data were correlated.
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Tele-immersion
Tele-immersion creates coordinated, partially simulated environments at geographically distributed sites so that users can collaborate as if they were in the same physical room. In the case of medical applications, such as tele-radiology and urgent diagnostics, the availability of such technologies in the places that are physically inaccessible to 1414 specialists could potentially save the lives.

The participants in this session were not only able to see each other in 3D but they were also able to engage in collaborative work, and take part in a design process (a simple example of interior office design)

Synthetic Worlds
Otherwise known as massive multiplayer interactive games Over 5 million inhabitants today Doubling every 18 months About 2% of the Internet-connected population age 14-28 spend more time in the synthetic world than in the real world Linked to the real world Physical artifacts like playing cards Ebay auctions for money and resources

Real people make real money

Undersea Oceanography

Images National Geographic

Supporting Large-scale Distributed Sensor Networks

Ecology Seismology Meteorology

Access to Unique Scientific Instruments

Astronomy High-Energy and Nuclear Physics

Hi-fidelity Collaboration
HD-quality video CD-quality audio

List of projects by discipline area :

Agriculture Arts Biological Sciences

Business Computer Science

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