There are enumerable links that can provide an in-depth insight into Internet2. A list of such useful links are available here. If you have a link you feel should be here, email us.
To jump to a specific section, click one of the links below.
- Internet Technologies and Protocols
- Digital Video News and Information
- Digital Video Protocols
- Distributed/Grid Computing
- Internet Protocols and Advanced Applications
- Quality of Service Initiative
Internet Technologies and Protocols
- IPv6: Internet Protocol version 6 is a replacement for our current addressing scheme on the Internet, IPv4. IPv6 solves many issues with IPv4, especially lack of addresses. It has seen only limited use so far, as other solutions - built on IPv4 - have been developed.
- IPv6 vs. IPv4: A comparison of IPv4 and IPv6.
- 802.11 (Wireless): The working group for the 802.11 standards.
Digital Video News and Information
- Videoconferencing Cookbook: This is a fairly in-depth overview of the fundamental concepts and issues of videoconferencing.
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The Internet2 Commons:
Offers H.323 multipoint videoconferencing services to Internet2 members.
- The Internet2 Commons GDS Gatekeeper: How to register with the Internet2 Commons GDS Gatekeeper.
- The Internet2 Commons Testing MCU's: Multipoint Control Units supported by the Commons for use with testing. Note that, for most of these MCU's, you must register with the Internet2 Commons GDS Gatekeeper.
- VRVS: The Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System is a web-based videoconferencing environment. It provides a low cost, bandwidth-efficient, extensible means of videoconferencing and remote collaboration over networks within the High Energy and Nuclear Physics communities, and other various academic/research areas.
- ViDe: The Video Development Initiative is a group that promotes the deployment of digital video in research and higher education. The have a number of projects and are very involved in videoconferencing technologies.
- VidMid-VC: The video working group of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative, which exists to further the development of middleware for digital video and related areas.
Digital Video Protocols
- H.323: "[A] standard that specifies the components, protocols and procedures that provide multimedia communication services : real-time audio, video, and data communications over packet networks, including Internet protocol (IP) based networks. H.323 is part of a family of ITU-T recommendations called H.32x that provides multimedia communication services over a variety of networks."
Distributed/Grid Computing
- Open Science Grid: OSG is, in short, "a distributed computing infrastructure for large-scale scientific research." Binghamton University is a member of the OSG Consortium.
- PlanetLab: PlanetLab is "a global research network that supports the development of new network services"; it "consists of 801 nodes at 401 sites." Among other things, "[o]ne of PlanetLab's main purposes is to serve as a testbed for overlay networks," as well as "support long-running services that support a client base." It is also their "long-term goal ... to identify the common building block services upon which other services and applications can be constructed."
- NYSGrid: The mission of NYSGrid is "[t]o create an advanced collaborative technological infrastructure that supports and enhances the research and educational missions of institutions in New York State." Binghamton University is one of the participating institutions.
- PRAGMA Grid: The Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly focuses on developing middleware and other applications in its working groups.
- Logistical Computing and Internetworking Lab: LoCI is devoted to the study of the flexible coscheduling of the fundamental physical resources that underpin computer systems - storage, computation, and data transmission - in distributed computer systems and networks.
- The Globus Alliance: A toolkit for implementing a "Sum-of-Services" grid computing architecture.
- Condor: Builds software tools to support High Throughput Computing (HTC) across a grid, for the use of scientists and engineers.
- The Globe Project: A research project looking to construct a powerful unifying paradigm for large-scale wide area distributed systems: distributed shared objects.
- Jini: Jini is a Sun software system designed to easily connect any computing device to a larger network, using Java to distribute processes amongst all the connected devices. It is designed to be highly adaptable to change. It is not middleware however, and doesn't handle the actual communications or transferal of data.
Internet Protocols and Advanced Applications
Quality of Service Initiative
- QBone: "The goal of the QBone is to test and deploy scalable QoS mechanisms in the Internet2 environment."
