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INTERNET2 BACKBONE NETWORK DEPLOYS NEXT GENERATION OF INTERNET PROTOCOL
Abilene Offers IPv6 Service

Indianapolis, Indiana, May 16, 2000—The nationwide Internet2™ backbone
network, Abilene, today announced it has deployed IPv6, the next generation
version of protocols that form the basis of the Internet.

Implementing IPv6 in a large-scale testbed network such as Abilene will
allow exploration of the operational barriers hampering IPv6’s widespread
deployment in the commercial Internet.   As hundreds of millions of people
and everything from palm-top organizers to automobiles are poised to connect
to the Internet, IPv6’s ability to link many more—and ever more
mobile—devices is becoming increasingly important. Commercial deployment of
IPv6 has been slow and the overwhelming majority of the Internet today uses
IPv4.

Brian Carpenter, until recently Chair of the Internet Architecture Board,
and a Program Director in IBM's Next Generation Internet team, said “,After
more than five years personal involvement in the development of IPv6, I am
delighted to see this important step forward in preparing the Internet for
the next phase of its growth. IPv6 lays the foundation for the reliable,
scaleable, always-on Next Generation Internet needed for research,
education, commerce, and the whole of society.”

“Deploying IPv6 in Abilene lays the groundwork for exploring the
capabilities of the IPv6 protocol suite among the over 150 universities
using the Internet2 infrastructure,” said Guy Almes, chief engineer for
Internet2.  “This will serve as a laboratory environment for IPv6 experts
within our community, and will also enable a steadily growing community of
users eager to exploit IPv6 as a solid foundation for new applications.”

“In addition to understanding the features of IPv6, this deployment will
help us research v6 operational issues,” said Dale Finkelson, chair of the
Internet2 IPv6 Working Group and a network engineer at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. “We must first understand how to successfully deploy a
fully integrated and interoperable IPv6 network before it will be widely
accepted in the commercial Internet.”

3Com and Cisco Systems, both Internet2 Corporate Partners, have provided
additional network infrastructure for Abilene’s IPv6 deployment and Indiana
University will extend its network operations center activities to support
the new service. The Great Plains Network, which serves Internet2 members in
Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota, is the
first Internet2 GigaPoP to take advantage of Abilene’s IPv6 service.

Abilene has established four core IPv6 nodes and is peering with several
other research and education networks using IPv6, including the Department
of Energy’s network, ESnet and Canada’s CAnet3.

About Abilene
Abilene, a project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet
Development (UCAID) in partnership with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems,
Nortel Networks and Indiana University, is an Internet2 backbone network
providing nationwide high-performance networking capabilities for over 100
Internet2 universities. For more information on Abilene please see:
http://www.ucaid.edu/abilene/

About Internet2™
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of
tomorrow’s Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia,
industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy.
For more information about Internet2, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/
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Indiana University, a recognized center for advanced networking 
through such initiatives as Abilene, the TransPAC international 
research network, and early participation in the National Science 
Foundation vBNS project, is continuing its program of funding for 
innovative applications in research and teaching that require high 
performance networks. Through the High Performance Network 
Applications Program (HPNAP), IU seeks to accelerate the development 
of next-generation network-based applications and development tools 
at IU.

A Call for Proposals has been issued by the Indiana University Office 
of the Vice President for Information Technology; proposals are due 
July 7, 2000.

The competitive program provides one-time grants of up to $20,000 to 
support IU faculty, graduate students and staff on all IU campuses in 
developing innovative applications in research and teaching that 
require high performance local, regional, or national research 
networks and such emerging high performance domestic network 
connection technologies as cable modems, xDSL, satellite and 
wireless.

Routine access to advanced high performance networks has only 
recently become available; the development of advanced applications 
that capitalize on the capabilities of these networks is in its 
infancy. Development of such applications still takes considerable 
effort.

Now in its second year, the HPNAP has in the past supported a wide 
range of projects. In the sciences, these include distributed 
computational fluid dynamics, remote use of telescopes, continuous 
data collection and analysis from large seismic arrays, remote 
sensing environmental data management, and global-scale genomic 
databases. Among projects in the humanities are archaeological 
reconstruction and shared virtual spaces for composing and playing 
music. In teaching, learning, and distributed education, HPNAP has 
supported work on observation and recording facilities for 
educational psychology and the scholarship of teaching, and network 
mediated collaborative teaching and learning in medicine, 
engineering, environmental safety, and business. HPNAP-supported 
researchers working with new collaboration and communication 
technologies have investigated spatial interfaces to large digital 
libraries, new methods for navigating virtual spaces, and wireless 
networks for interactive collaboration. For discussions of funded 
projects, see: 
http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/hpnap/projects/index.html. For 
information about the HPNAP and proposal requirements, see: 
http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/hpnap/

Applications developed through the Program can be expected to provide 
considerable competitive advantage to the University. Emphasis is 
placed on the potential of the proposed applications to advance the 
research or educational mission of the University, and on the use of 
IU's internal, national or international advanced network connections 
(Internet2 Abilene, TransPAC, etc). Proposals can be expected to 
involve multi-site collaborations within or outside the University 
but this is not a required condition. Funding under the Program will 
be available August 1, 2000.

Proposed applications should require such high performance network 
capabilities as high bandwidth, bounded latency, IP multicast, and 
new protocols or services including distributed storage, computing 
and  visualization. Proposals should describe the application and the 
reason it needs such capabilities, and should discuss the project's 
potential for  strengthening connections between IU and such external 
organizations as institutions of higher education, national 
laboratories, state and federal government agencies and industry.


Jan R. Holloway
Manager, Communications and Planning
University Information Technology  Services
Indiana University - Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/cpo/

812/855-5177
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Indiana University, a recognized
center for advanced networking through such initiatives as Abilene, the
TransPAC international research network, and early participation in the
National Science Foundation vBNS project, is continuing its program of
funding for innovative applications in research and teaching that
require high performance networks. Through the High Performance Network
Applications Program (HPNAP), IU seeks to accelerate the development of
next-generation network-based applications and development tools at IU.


A Call for Proposals has been issued by the Indiana University Office
of the Vice President for Information Technology; proposals are due
July 7, 2000. 


The competitive program provides one-time grants of up to $20,000 to
support IU faculty, graduate students and staff on all IU campuses in
developing innovative applications in research and teaching that
require high performance local, regional, or national research networks
and such emerging high performance domestic network connection
technologies as cable modems, xDSL, satellite and wireless.  


Routine access to advanced high performance networks has only recently
become available; the development of advanced applications that
capitalize on the capabilities of these networks is in its infancy.
Development of such applications still takes considerable effort.


Now in its second year, the HPNAP has in the past supported a wide
range of projects. In the sciences, these include distributed
computational fluid dynamics, remote use of telescopes, continuous data
collection and analysis from large seismic arrays, remote sensing
environmental data management, and global-scale genomic databases.
Among projects in the humanities are archaeological reconstruction and
shared virtual spaces for composing and playing music. In teaching,
learning, and distributed education, HPNAP has supported work on
observation and recording facilities for educational psychology and the
scholarship of teaching, and network mediated collaborative teaching
and learning in medicine, engineering, environmental safety, and
business. HPNAP-supported researchers working with new collaboration
and communication technologies have investigated spatial interfaces to
large digital libraries, new methods for navigating virtual spaces, and
wireless networks for interactive collaboration. For discussions of
funded projects, see:
http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/hpnap/projects/index.html. For information
about the HPNAP and proposal requirements, see:
http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/hpnap/


Applications developed through the Program can be expected to provide
considerable competitive advantage to the University. Emphasis is
placed on the potential of the proposed applications to advance the
research or educational mission of the University, and on the use of
IU's internal, national or international advanced network connections
(Internet2 Abilene, TransPAC, etc). Proposals can be expected to
involve multi-site collaborations within or outside the University but
this is not a required condition. Funding under the Program will be
available August 1, 2000.


Proposed applications should require such high performance network
capabilities as high bandwidth, bounded latency, IP multicast, and new
protocols or services including distributed storage, computing and 
visualization. Proposals should describe the application and the reason
it needs such capabilities, and should discuss the project's potential
for  strengthening connections between IU and such external
organizations as institutions of higher education, national
laboratories, state and federal government agencies and industry.

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Jan R. Holloway                                         

Manager, Communications and Planning           

University Information Technology  Services    

Indiana University - Bloomington

http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/cpo/


       

812/855-5177

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