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June 4, 1998 (update)

Summary of vBNS [Internet 2]

Kris Stewart, Director, EC/CSE www.edcenter.sdsu.edu

This url is: www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/projects/vbns/vbns.html

The List is OUT and SDSU and UCSD are on it!

The CSU submitted their proposal (CalREN-2) in July, '97 for access to the vBNS and we're waiting to hear the final recommendations from NSF (the proposal is online www.aldea.com/cenic/phase2/toc.html The proposal was coordinated by Dave Sharpe at SDSU and the Ed. Center was part along with several other SDSU campus researchers)

World-Wide "players" in the Global Network

NPACI Networking Group Meeting SDSC 1/9/98 led by Jay Dombrowski of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) provided the following list of on-line references (1/9/98)
  • CENIC Consortium for Education Network Initiatives in California
  • vBNS very-high-performance Backbone Network Service
  • Internet2 (grass-root University movement to encourage HP networking
  • UCAID, U. Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (Abilene network)
  • NLANR Natl. Lab for Advanced Network Research [Applications/User Services; Engineering; Measurement & Analysis]
  • STAR TAP an International Proving Ground for high-performance networks, major funding from the NSF
  • NGI Next Generation Internet, President Clinton's initiative to demonstrate advanced network usefulness
    NGI Events/Demonostrations

Current Users of the vBNS

A recent presentation at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (Jan. 27, 1998) by Dr. Sam Gustman, Director of Technology at the Shoah Foundation gave details on Advanced Digital Technology is the Basis for the New Technique of Visual History at the Shoah Visual History Foundation founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

CENIC Academic Advisory Council meeting: Jan. 15, 1998, UCLA Faculty Club.
Russ Hobby, CENIC/TAC Chair can the CENIC Applications Advisory Council Kick-off presentation

Internet II ( www.internet2.edu) is the "grass-roots" project to facilitate education and research access to a very high speed network (the internet as we know it today is getting slow)

The vBNS (www.vbns.net) is the very-high-performance Backbone Network Service). This is the MCI/NSF funded network in existence now for research applications needing the throughput.

One of the most authoritative web sources on cutting edge Internet work is from Kim Claffy at SDSC. Kimberly is the Director of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR), www.nlanr.net.

Another source would be CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) (www.caida.org) charged with oversite and development of a lot of the tools for accessing and evaluating the internet.

UC Davis' Internet 2 Project Catalog

titanic.ucdavis.edu/i2 In compliance with the NSF requirement to provide a public display of research applications, Joan Gargano has commissions this site.

Beginnings of a Web Site Description of SDSU Projects

CENIC/AAC presentation (request similar information from all vBNS projects)

Maps

SDSU is on the map SDSU with DS3 connection. The CENIC Academic Advisory Council meeting (March 19, 1998 UCLA) was good starting point for discussions.

OC3 (Fiber 155.52Mbps) over DS3 (Digital Signal 44.736Mbps) for our proposed research. One argument is ATM allows the exploration of reservation services for quality of service quarantees and our campus is locally ATM over OC12. We need to be prepared for why we need access to vBNS. A compelling argument is to list specific other vBNS sites that you will connect to.

vBNS Backbone Network Map provides a graphical map. vBNS Logical Network Map may be more informative. (NOTE: SDSU appears on this map as DS3 3/3/98) Institution/Laboratory list already approved with contact information (NOTE: first column gives actual status, e.g. "C" connected or "TBD" to be determined or "--" not quite yet). Another list of vBNS sites is vBNS Site List.\

Dynamic Map where you can select the region and network (best one)

A dramatic, dynamic "map" of all major high speed networks CAIDA Backbones

Negotiations with the CSU Chancellor's Office (PI of Grant)

Email to Tom West (2/26/98) [to SDSU 3/27/98] announcing award
This email was shared the day before the meeting called at WestEd (Seal Beach, Chancellor's Office Networking Hub) with Dr. Elhami Ibrahim (Director, Engineering Graduate Programs, Cal Poly Pomona), Dr. Yasha Karant (Director, Institute for Applied Supercomputing, CSU San Bernardino) and Dr. Kris Stewart (Director, CSU/NPACI Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering at SDSU.
CENIC98 vBNS meeting in Dana Point (May 19-20)
Note: Gary Adams (WestEd) committed the CSU to pay for two representative from each funded campus - SDSU, CPP, CSUSB - to attend this workshop. Kris Stewart and Eric Frost attended both days representing SDSU.
Email (3/26/98) detailing DS3 ($43K, 45Mbps) award versus OC3 ($130K, 145Mbps) request
NSF has requested a URL buried in the message above describing the individual campuses vBNS projects. I would like to augment the preliminary description with updated projects descriptions providing:
  1. A short description of your research application that will use the vBNS
  2. Identify, as explicitly as you can, who you will be collaborating with, either you are providing data over the network - or you are receiving data over the network, that is a site already on the vBNS (see HP Connections below).
  3. If possible, at the early date, provide examples of the size of data and the minimum time that your project will allow to transmit this data for success. [Note: Help me argue why the 45Mbps will not be adequate for our applications, if that is your belief.]

We should invite Kim Claffy to come to SDSU for a presentation. Kimberly's latest recommended text to learn about networks is:

An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet and the Telephone Network

by S. Keshav, Addison-Wesley, 1997. The author's home page http://www.cs.cornell.edu/skeshav/default.htm contains extensive information on the author, his research and teaching, even powerpoint slides for his networking courses at Cornell U. using this text.

 

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