Internet2in theHealth Sciences.pptVIP

11 April 2000 Internet2 in the Health Sciences Mary Kratz (mkratz@) Outline for Today Thank you for the opportunity to share about Internet2! What can be learned from history? Internet2 organization Network infrastructure International partnerships Advanced Applications Internet2 Health Sciences Success of the Internet History ARPAnet origins 1987 -- NSFnet Privatization in 1995 1996 Telecomm Act The WWW explodes Federal Next Generation Internet Initiative NSF provides grant funding to universities for network infrastructure Internet2 founded 1999 Abilene in production Today’s Internet Doesn’t Provide reliable end-to-end performance Encourage cooperation on new  capabilities Allow testing of new technologies Support development of revolutionary  applications Why Internet2? Doesn’t everybody know about Internet2? Does anybody know about Internet2? What’s the connection to medicine? Learning Technology Collaborative Research Tele-Health (eHealth) Applied Clinical Research BioGRID Internet2 Mission and Goals Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. Enable new generation of applications Create leading edge RE network capability Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet Internet2 Universities205 University Members, November 2003 Committed to Core Values Address the advanced networking needs and interests of the research education community Provide leadership to evolve the global Internet Leverage strategic relationships among academia, industry and government Catalyze activities that cannot be accomplished by individual organizations Implement a systems approach towards a scalable and vertically integrated advanced networking infrastructure Internet2 Partnerships Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy Industry Government International Abilene Network Core Map, November 2003 Abilene Network Logical M