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EDUCAUSE and Internet2 Urge Congress to Fund Broadband As Part of Economic Stimulus Package

As part of its ongoing efforts to support the widespread deployment of advanced broadband services to U.S. homes and businesses, EDUCAUSE and Internet2 this week sent a letter to the Congressional leadership urging these lawmakers to include funding for next-generation, high-capacity broadband infrastructure as a critical part of the upcoming economic stimulus legislation.  Click here to read the full letter and its policy recommendations.

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Join Internet Evolution Magazine today at 2pm ET for a live one-hour webinar highlighting the work of the Internet2 community. The webinar complements an Internet2-focused story that ran this week in print in InformationWeek and online at this link - http://www.internetevolution.comdocument.asp?doc_id=168318

Register for the webinar at this link: http://www.internetevolution.com/webinar.asp?webinar_id=29031

Webinar Details:

Internet2 and the Future of the Web
Host: Roger Smith, Senior Editor, InformationWeek;  Gary Bachula, Internet2 VP for External Relations, Martin Swany, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware and Internet2 Faculty Fellow; Walt Magnussen, Director of Telecommunications at Texas A&M University and Co-Director of the Texas A&M Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center.

Date: Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Time: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern

Overview:
With problems such as spam, viruses and "denial of service" attacks that cripple large profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even DNS root servers--not to mention the exploding need for IP addresses to accommodate all kinds of new devices, from cars to mobile phones to wireless sensors, many people are saying the current Internet is broken and needs to be replaced.  Since 1996, the non-profit Internet2 consortium has been living the future of the Internet by developing, deploying and using new high-bandwidth networking technologies like DVD-quality videoconferencing, identity federation, telemedicine and distance-learning that are 3 to 5 years ahead of the current global commercial Internet.

Internet2 today provides a nationwide high performance 100Gb/s network to nearly 300 member organizations (including 43 corporate members) and more than 50,000 research and education institutions including colleges, high schools, museums and libraries across the United States. Webinar participants from the Internet2 consortium will discuss a host of new technologies and cutting-edge applications that have been developed on the Internet2 test bed network.  This includes the Internet2's Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) switching service that creates short-term circuits between end-users that require dedicated bandwidth, which will be especially useful for organizations building cloud computing applications, or who need to make more efficient use of resources by controlling their own traffic patterns and having a dedicated environment that is under their control.

This one-of-a-kind webinar gives you a look into the future of the Web by people who have first-hand experience developing and using a wide range of intriguing high-bandwidth applications.

Register at this link: http://www.internetevolution.com/webinar.asp?webinar_id=29031

Sponsor: IBM

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The InCommon Federation announces an open call for nominees for three open seats on the governing Steering Committee, each for three year terms. The InCommon Steering Committee will consider a broad roster of senior leadership for its open seats. InCommon Steering is responsible for the federation's activities and its fiduciary decisions regarding the operation and direction of the federation. The Steering Committee is selected as a representative body of the broadest community of higher education institutions and its many partners. For a current list of Steering Committee members, please see www.incommonfederation.org/about.cfm.

To nominate an individual, including yourself, please send your recommendation to
incommon-nom@incommonfederation.org by 7 December 2008. Questions and comments may be sent to the  ncommon-nom email address above or to John Krienke at jcwk -at- internet2.edu. Additional information may be found at www.incommonfederation.org/sc/.

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Internet2, ESnet, Infinera, Juniper Networks and Level 3 Communications announced this week at the annual SC08 conference that they have agreed to work together to aggressively develop and test 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technologies. The initiative will build on fresh-from-the-laboratory technologies to create a 100GbE testbed on the Internet2 and ESnet networks with an operational network capability soon after.

Details in this press release.

For more info, check out the newsclips below:

Internet2, ESnet Want Their 100-Gig
Light Reading - 11/18/2008

Forces Align Behind 100GbE's
Internet News - 11/19/2008

Big brains converge on Austin for Supercomputing 2008
Austin American Statesman - 11/19/2008

Carriers, vendors, partner for 100GbE services development
Lightwave Fibre Systems - 11/18/2008

Alliance to Advance 100gigE
Xchange - 11/18/2008

Forces Align Behind 100GbE's High-Speed Promise
Earthwebnews.com - 11/18/2008

SC08 supercomputing event where the action is this week in network research
Network World - 11/18/2008

The research networks are pressuring their vendors for a 100GE answer, and the vendors are seizing the chance eagerly
Light Reading - 11/18/2008,

Networking Leaders to Develop 100 GbE Services
HPCwire - 11/18/2008

100 Gigabit Ethernet on the horizon
Government Computer News - 11/18/2008

Coalition to Tackle 100 GigE
Light Reading - 11/18/2008

Infinera, Juniper, Internet2 team on 100-GigE test bed
Telephony Online - 11/18/2008

Level 3, Internet2, others team on 100G testbed
Fierce Telecom - 11/19/2008

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At the Fall Member Meeting in New Orleans Internet2 together with several collaborators showcased the first uncompressed high-definition videoconference application over revolutionary dynamic circuit networks (DCN). The demonstrations highlighted the promise of DCN and high-definition video technology to create the ultimate collaboration environment that can support new innovation in science, research, the arts, telemedicine and beyond.

Ed Seidel, director of the office of cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted a live tour of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Control Center in France and moderated a virtual Q&A with Jim Virdee, spokesperson for the LHC's CMS detector - one of six detectors at the LHC; Jim Strait, Accelerator Physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Harvey Newman, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology.   A video explaining the importance of cyberinfrastructure to supporting LHC, can be viewed via http://www.internet2.edu/lhc

The demo showcased the use of iHDTV™ software. Developed by the ResearchChannel and the University of Washington, iHDTV streamed uncompressed 1080i high-definition video between the conference floor in New Orleans and LHC's Control Center at CERN in Prevessin, France. The technology interoperates internationally across three DCN network domains including the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI), Internet2 and US LHCNet.   Learn more.

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Does your institution have a campus in China?  Are you interested in learning more about the state of research & education networking in China?  Then the 2008 Chinese-American Networking Symposium is the place to be!  

Internet2, in partnership with CAST-USA, CERNET, CSTNet, and host site Indiana University, is pleased to announce this year's Chinese-American Networking Symposium will be held 20-22 October 2008 in Indianapolis, IN. Networking experts from both China and the United States will gather at CANS to discuss new ideas and advancements in networking technologies. In keeping with the 2008 Olympic Games being hosted in Beijing, this year's CANS theme of One World One Network focuses on working together to promote interoperability along with seamless networking and collaboration.  Click here to register for CANS 2008. 

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The Shibboleth Development team is seeking feedback on their roadmap for the next release of the Shibboleth software. To review the document, see: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/Shibboleth 2.2 Roadmap. The first section of the roadmap describes plans for the additions of specific functionality. The second section describes several areas where
the developers are seeking community input and further requirements before possibly proceeding.

Please send your comments to the shibboleth-dev AT internet2.edu mailing list. Directions for subscribing to this list are available at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/lists.html.

The Shibboleth Development Team would like to thank the community for its contributions, comments, and feedback over the years.

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Internet2 has successfully completed its fourth Google Summer of Code™ program, which has enabled students from around the world to participate in the development of leading-edge network technologies that will have a direct impact on the progress of advanced research and education applications.   

The program that offers premier student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google, an Internet2 corporate member, has worked to bring together over 2,400 students with over 175 open source projects to create millions of lines of code.

Internet2 has participated in Google Summer of Code since its inception in 2005 enabling 22 students to participate in the development of next generation performance monitoring technologies as well as revolutionary dynamic circuit networking software each of which have directly contributed to supporting researchers in fields such as high-energy physics and radio astronomy.
 
Internet2 Google Summer of Code 2008 students included: Merlijn Hofstra of Hogeschool Utrecht, Den Haag Netherlands; Gianluca Campanella, The Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Bolzano BZ Italy; Ahmed H. El-Hassany, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza Palestine; and Dan Bracey, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA. These students participated in the development of a Java Client for OWAMP, an application used to determine one-way delay between points on the network, perfSONAR-PS Configuration Software and a Network Performance Toolkit configuration each of which will be added to the next NPToolkit release. Students also contributed to the development of a programmatic interface for the Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network, which enhances the usability of the DCN by allowing applications to automatically allocate network resources, rather than depending on a user to do so.
 
For additional info - visit: https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2008-09/msg00002.html

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