Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting
Poster Sessions
We encourage all Member Meeting attendees to visit the Poster Sessions
on display in the Arlington Ballroom Lobby on the conference level
of the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel. New this year: meeting attendees
will also be able to view the posters during the Welcome Reception
on Monday, May 2.
Presenters and organizational
representatives will be available to discuss their posters during
the following times:
Monday, May 2, 6:30-8:30pm (during the Welcome Reception)
Tuesday, May 3, 10:00-10:30am, 2:30-3:00pm, 4:00-4:30pm
Wednesday, May 4, 10:00-10:30am
NOTE: Check back often for updates to this page
concerning presentation schedules, presenters, titles, and abstracts.
Metro/Regional Optical Network
Architectures for Internet Applications
ADVA Optical Networking
Traffic on metro/regional optical
networks, which are part of the Internet backbone, can be divided into two
classes. A significant amount of traffic is true backbone traffic and traverses
the network between ingress and egress points connecting the network to the
rest of the Internet backbone. A second class of traffic is destined for a
local node. Through traffic is characterized by well-known endpoints that terminate
a typically large fraction of the traffic because they serve as gateways to
the Internet backbone. Local traffic, whether it stays within the network or
has its origin outside the network is less predictable as it depends on a number
of factors such as the local population and its use of data services as well
as the growth and relocation of data-centric businesses. Such traffic has different
requirements depending on the particular network characteristics. A significant
diversity in characteristics is reflected in a superset of requirements, which
are best served using an array of optical transport technologies including
CWDM/DWDM implemented as static as well as dynamic optical network solutions.
ADVA will also be presentating as part of the Industry Perspectives of Optical
Networking session on Tuesday, May 3 at 1:15-2:30pm.
Advancements in Optical Networks for
Research & Education
CIENA
CIENA will provide a graphical depiction of technologies
that represent latest advancement of optical networks in the research and education
community. The poster will highlight key features that drive flexibility, scalability,
manageability and cost effectiveness that is available with today's solutions.
Network deployments will be highlighted with an illustration featuring newly
introduced technology supporting R&E networks. Capabilities such as multi-protocol
support, 10GbE, OADM technology, and automated provisioning and management
will be illustrated within context of R&E network requirements.
Construction Management
East Carolina University
This poster will present the on-going research
and current initiatives involving the Internet and communication technologies
in teaching at a professional program of Construction Management.
High Performance Ethernet
Force10 Networks
This session will present High Performance Ethernet,
which has huge relevance for next generation networking, grids, supercomputing,
and next generation architectures—such as that being explored by the
HOPI project.
Real-Time Communication Services and Collaboration
Tools
The Internet2 Commons
inSORS Grid Server for Education and Research Customers.
The Commons has developed a hosted environment service for vendors to provide
hosted solutions to the education and research community. The Commons will
be hosting an inSORS Unified Collaboration Server (UCS). The hosted inSORS
UCS will be accessible by all inSORS education and research customers. This
fully supported UCS allows inSORS customers to collaborate with other inSORS
customers as well as the Access Grid community worldwide. Additionally, the
inSORS UCS provides h323 interoperability, so that traditional videoconferencing
devices can easily be connected with inSORS Grid and Access Grid sites. Utilization
of the Internet2 network will greatly increase the reliability and power
of the inSORS Grid for the research and education community.
Optical Networking Innovations for Research and Education
Nortel Networks
This poster introduces new technologies and network architectures which will reduce the cost of high speed optical networking and enable application acceleration through automated bandwidth control. The simplified optical transmission technologies open the door to wavelength selective switching as well as the ability to correct link impairments at the network edge. An overview of optical network control planes how they can be combined to enable multi-domain network will be presented to further the concept of bandwidth on demand. In addition to photonic layer advances, the integration of layer 1 and layer 2 switching will also be presented as a potential mechanism to further reduce network costs and enable more granular bandwidth sharing.
Qwest iQ Networking
Qwest
Qwest iQ Networking is a new suite of wide area networking services offering a converged networking service based on leading technologies allowing users to build networks using legacy ATM and Frame Relay protocols, as well as advanced IP-centric, multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)-based solutions. Qwest iQ Networking provides superior technology and universal access, as well as convenient, quick Web-based management and reporting tools.
Spirent Network Testing Products
Spirent Communications
- Harry Segoviano
- Russ Mattingly
- Greg Goddard
Spirent develops a comprehensive suite of network testing products that address the needs of research and university customers. The company's solutions test every facet of the network - from applications, security and network infrastructure - helping users increase security and improve the performance and availability of their networks. Spirent solutions enable research and university organization to do:
10G throughput validation and BERT testing Using the AX technology, Spirent provides a way to validate link availability via a loopback of the fiber as well as BRET testing. Applications testing over the backbone Using Avalanche technology, Spirent can create real world applications on the backbone, providing reports such as response time from the end user perspective Systems tests of a 10G core Using Smartbits and SmartFlow, Spirent can validate latency and throughput of a new network in a lab. Edge routers can also be tested. Security testing Using Avalanche, Spirent can predict the impact on applications of DDoS attacks in a controlled environment prior to going live. Spirent's solutions accelerate the profitable development and deployment of network equipment and services by emulating real-world conditions in the lab and assuring end-to end performance of large scale networks.
Sun Software Agreement
for Internet2 Members
Sun Microsystems
Most institutions are unable to afford the licensing fees of even the critical components of middleware software needed to deliver services to the IT customers on a 24/7 basis. Sun and Internet2 have created an agreement to make middleware software affordable for Internet2 members. This agreement is designed exclusively for Internet2 members.
Creative Connectivity—WilTel Education Solutions
Wiltel
WilTel’s poster session
is designed to strip away preconceived notions about design and infrastructure,
instead emphasizing the open-ended nature of our relationship with Internet2
members and reinforcing the diverse options for developing and deploying
advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education.
The design illustrates general opportunities for:
- Establishing connectivity to national networks
- Creating & optimizing regional networks
In addition, it highlights specific opportunities for:
- Creating more efficient
storage/disaster recovery by using the same access facilities for SAN
and GigE LAN traffic
- Linking university IP telephony projects to a national
DMS 250 network for termination to the PSTN
- Transporting live HDTV over
an MPLS-enabled infrastructure with the same backhaul technique used
to broadcast SuperBowl 2004 and 2005.
The storage assured solution referenced in the poster leverages Nortel Networks’ Optical
Metro 3500 to provide native storage protocol connectivity between two or
more sites over WilTel’s optical network. Fibre Channel, FICON or GigE
traffic is efficiently mapped using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and transported
in a Virtually Concatenated (VCAT) payload for transport over SONET.
The IP-enabled voice service referenced in the poster is available via dedicated
Internet access (DIA), MPLS IPVPN or Internet peering supporting H.323 and
SIP call set up protocols. To create an IP-enabled voice portfolio, WilTel
has integrated its 10 Gbps MPLS-enabled IP network with its DMS 250 voice
network, the same voice network leveraged by the nation’s largest telephony
providers. In essence, WilTel extends your termination footprint by accepting
voice calls from a university’s switching facility or IP PBX for termination
on the WilTel network.
HD VenueNet, referenced in the poster, is the industry’s first end-to-end
fiber network for carrying live HDTV backhaul. It is an enhancement of the
existing Vyvx VenueNet infrastructure, which broadcasters have trusted for
15 years as the proven, reliable delivery method for hundreds of thousands
of the most highly viewed live sports, news and special events. HD VenueNet
enables broadcasters to deliver live HDTV backhaul from event locations to
their production facilities, end-to-end, at 270 Mbps. To access HD VenueNet,
broadcasters use the Vyvx VenueNet box already in place at event venues.
Vyvx utilizes mezzanine level (SDTi) compression to 270 Mbps with embedded
audio, supporting 1080i, 1080p or 720p HDTV signals. The HDTV signal is transmitted
to the customer premise as SDTi (SMPTE 305) over a 270 Mbps local loop.
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