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February 2007 Internet2 Newsletter

- Headlines -

Transition to the New Internet2 Network Accelerating
New network deployment team is installing nodes throughout the eastern United States and constructing collocation facilities.
http://www.internet2.edu/network/library/CommunityNetworkUpdate2.pdf

Transition from the Abilene Network to the new Internet2 Network is accelerating, with new network nodes being deployed throughout the eastern United States and construction of collocation facilities now in progress through El Paso and Salt Lake City. In addition to relocating the traditional Internet2 IP service from the Qwest backbone to the new Internet2 Dedicated Wave System on the Level 3 infrastructure, new dedicated and dynamic wave services are also available on the portions of the new network that are complete.

An increasing number of connectors are also evaluating the Internet2 Commercial Peering trial as another way to potentially leverage their Internet2 capacity and decrease their commodity internet usage. More information on the new network and the transition schedule is available at the above URL.

Register Now for the Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting
Join your colleagues in Arlington, Virginia, 23-25 April 2007.
http://events.internet2.edu/2007/spring-mm/

Spring 2007 will be a pivotal time for the Internet2 community: the new Internet2 network with its 100 Gbps capacity and dedicated circuit services will be nearing full implementation, middleware-based capabilities such as federated authentication will be reaching critical mass, transition to a new governance structure will be in progress, and major new advanced research and education partnerships and initiatives encompassing cyberinfrastructure, the TeraGrid, rural health networks, and more will be underway. Registration is now open for the Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting, where the program will focus on these many and varied activities. Be sure to register by 30 March 2007 to take advantage of Early Bird registration rates.

Cdigix, Inc. Joins Internet2
Company joins Internet2 to develop next-generation content distribution technology and services.
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2007-01/msg00001.html

Internet2 announced in January 2007, that Cdgix, Inc. has become a corporate member of Internet2 and plans to collaborate with the community to develop innovative content distribution and federated identity management technologies that will play a critical role in the future of online digital media. In the future, Cdigix will also look to leverage the exceptional speed and advanced capabilities of Internet2's nationwide network to offer its Clabs educational multimedia service and to provide a platform for technology experimentation. Last year, Cdigix partnered with several universities to join the InCommon Federation and to deploy Shibboleth open source federated identity management software, a technology and trust community developed by Internet2 members. InCommon builds on Shibboleth, which is deployed by thousands of educational organizations worldwide, to provide a scalable trust infrastructure which allows universities and resource providers to share protected online information in a highly secure environment.

- Events -

Workshop Series Prepares Scientists and Networking Community for Collider Data
https://indico.fnal.gov/categoryDisplay.py?categId=22

Scientists at your institution have been working for the past decade to bring the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to life. Starting in 2007, this experimental facility will generate petabytes of new data, and individual scientists will typically analyze terabyte data-sets to extract useful information from this archive. In order to help campuses understand the implications for these data requirements, the U.S. LHC community and Internet2 are jointly organizing a series of one-day regional workshops for scientists in the physics community and the campus, regional, and national network professionals that support them. These workshops will provide the opportunity for participants to develop detailed plans for dealing with this new source of science data, will help inform decisions about infrastructure changes, middleware requirements, and services that your research community will need.

The first of these workshops is being co-hosted by Texas A&M University and takes place on 14 February 2007 at College Station, TX.

TeraGrid '07 Conference: Call for Papers
http://www.teragrid.org/events/teragrid07

The annual TeraGrid conference, TeraGrid '07: Broadening Participation in TeraGrid, is accepting papers, demonstrations, posters, tutorials, and birds-of-a-feather sessions for the conference to be held 4-8 June 2007, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Full papers, 3-5 pages, are due 8 February for peer review. For more information, please see the above URL. TeraGrid '07 is also hosting three competitions for students. Details on these competitions are available online.

Registration Open for EDUCAUSE & Internet2 2007 Security Professionals Conference
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=232&bhcp=1

Sponsored by the EDUCAUSE and Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force, the annual Security Professionals Conference brings together information security professionals, IT staff, and others from across the higher education community. The 2007 conference will include keynote speakers Ira Winkler, author of Spies Among Us, and Pamela Fusco, head of Global Information Security for Citigroup. The conference also includes seminars, corporate displays, and sessions that address technical solutions, security policies and procedures, and management issues, including security training and awareness. Benefit from low early-bird rates by registering and reserving your accommodations by 19 March 2007. Register online now.

Internet2 Program Committee Seeks New Members
http://members.internet2.edu/call-mm.html

Internet2 Member Meetings provide many opportunities for the exchange of information about new and on-going work in the member community. The Internet2 Member Meeting Program Committee has responsibility for creating the main program at each meeting. The Program Committee is charged with developing the Call for Session Proposals and the subsequent evaluation and selection of member meeting track sessions. Internet2 is looking for new members of the Program Committee to join continuing members. For more information about the Call for Interest and the roles of the Program Committee, refer to the above URL.

- Member News -

A Transatlantic Rehearsal: Musicians in Miami Use DVTS to Perform Live for French Composers

On 2 February 2007, the New World Symphony in Miami rehearsed pieces by French composers Mr. Henri Dutilleux and Marc-André Dalbavie, while the composers participated live from IRCAM Paris. This transatlantic rehearsal, a “virtual concert room,” enabled live exchanges between musicians in Miami and the composers in Paris via RENATER-4 in France, GEANT2 in Europe, and Internet2's Network. These advanced reasearch and education networks provided the bandwidth and quality of service to ensure high quality audio and video using the DVTS software maintained by the WIDE Project – a Japanese research consortium and Internet2 international partner.

- Sponsorship Opportunities -

Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting Sponsorship Opportunities
http://members.internet2.edu/corporate/eventsponsorship.html

Internet2 is looking for members to sponsor events and activities at the Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting, which will be held 23-25 April 2007 in Arlington, Virginia. Sponsorship opportunities include the International and Welcome Receptions, lunches, breaks, and general support. Contributions to the meeting network infrastructure are also welcome. Sponsors will be recognized in the printed meeting program, on the meeting web site, in Internet2 newsletters, via signage at the event site, and in other appropriate ways. We always welcome suggestions for new ways to acknowledge generous support. For additional information, please see the URL above or contact Ellen Vaughan.

Internet2 Corporate Members Sponsor Winter 2007 Joint Techs Workshop Activities
http://jointtechs.es.net/minnesota2007/

Internet2 would like to acknowledge Juniper and Ciena for their generous sponsorship of the Reception at the Winter 2007 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop. Additionally, Internet2 thanks Fujitsu and ADVA Optical Networking for sponsoring lunches at the workshop. Internet2 gratefully acknowledges the critical support provided by all of these corporate members.

- Technology -

NOC Changes Name to Reflect New Network Deployment
http://noc.net.internet2.edu/

Internet2 is working with Level 3 Communications, Infinera, Ciena Corporation, Juniper Networks, and the Indiana University Global Research NOC, to upgrade the current Abilene Network. The new Internet2 Network will provide the U.S. research and education community with a new dynamic, innovative, and cost-effective hybrid optical and packet infrastructure. With the Chicago to New York backbone portion of the Internet2 Network already in production and carrying traffic, it has become apparent that a standardized naming convention must be used in reference to the network during this transition period.

On 1 February 2007, the Abilene NOC became the Internet2 NOC. The Internet2 NOC's new email address is noc@net.internet2.edu. The legacy e-mail address, noc@abilene.iu.edu, will remain active and monitored by the Internet2 NOC for a period of 9 months. The Internet2 NOC phone number, (317) 278-6622, will remain the same. NOC e-mail and phone contacts will continue to be supported twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. In all future communication from the Internet2 NOC, the Abilene Network will now be referred to as the Internet2 IP Network.

The Internet2 NOC homepage URL is now noc.net.internet2.edu. The legacy Abilene NOC URL, www.abilene.iu.edu, will redirect you to the new webpage. You can stay up to date on the progress of the deployment of the new Internet2 Network by visiting the following sites:

• Internet2 Upgrade Daily Updates Blog
• Official Internet2 Network Page

- Tools -

Shibboleth Identity Provider version 1.3.2 Released
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP), version 1.3.2, has been released. This new version is a maintenance release; it contains a number of bug fixes for the recent 1.3.1 release, but does not contain any new functionality. For a complete list of the changes, please see the change log. Downloads are available from the Shibboleth website.

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- New Members -

Internet2 would like to welcome:

Corporate Members
  Cdigix
  http://www.cdigix.com/website/cdigix/
  Cedar Point Communications
  http://www.cedarpointcom.com
  OpVista, Inc.
  http://www.opvista.com
  Verizon Business
  http://www.verizonbusiness.com/

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- Internet2 Calendar -

Internet2 Events

Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting
  http://events.internet2.edu/2007/spring-mm/
  23 - 25 Apr    Arlington, VA

Internet2 Workshops

CAMP: Charting Your Authentication Roadmap
  http://www.educause.edu/camp071
  7 - 9 Feb    Tempe, AZ

Internet2 IPv4 Multicast Hands-On Workshop
  http://events.internet2.edu/2007/multicast/2-07/
  9 - 11 Feb    Minneapolis, MN

Winter 2007 Joint Techs
  http://jointtechs.es.net/minnesota2007/
  11 - 15 Feb    Minneapolis, MN

LHC Networking Workshop
  https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=536
  14 Feb    College Station, TX

Internet2 Network Performance Workshop
  http://e2epi.internet2.edu/npw/jt07-umn/index.html
  14 - 15 Feb    Minneapolis, MN

LHC Networking Workshop
  https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=541
  20 Feb    Princeton, NJ

LHC Networking Workshop
  https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=540
  15 Mar    Davis, CA

LHC Networking Workshop
  https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=542
  30 Mar    Ann Arbor, MI

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop
  http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/
  17 - 19 Apr    Gaithersburg, MD

For a complete listing of Internet2 events see http://events.internet2.edu/

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