Internet2: več kot le nadaljevanje

Internet2: not just a sequel

Heather Boyles, Internet2

Povzetek
Internet2 je več kot deset let stara organizacija in omrežje, ki povezuje univerze, šole, raziskovalne centre, zdravstvo, klinike in druge izobraževalne in javne organizacije v ZDA. Aktivno sodeluje z večino svetovnih nacionalnih raziskovalnih in izobraževalnih omrežij (NREN), tudi Arnesom, kar uporabnikom omogoča sodelovanje s sorodnimi organizacijami širom sveta.

V prispevku bomo predstavili razloge za vzpostavitev namenskih raziskovalnih in izobraževalnih omrežij (v primerjavi s komercialnimi ponudniki internetnih storitev) in njihovo vlogo pri izpolnjevanju poslanstva organizacij, katerim služijo. Predstavili bomo, kako lahko različne skupnosti uporabljajo storitve Internet2 (od glasbene predstave do medicinskega izobraževanja). Sledil bo pregled zmožnosti omrežja vse od omrežne infrastrukture pa do nove omrežne storitve »svetlobnih poti« ter orodij za federativno upravljanje z identitetami in druge infrastrukture za sodelovanje in storitve.

Abstract
Internet2 is the 10+ year old organization and network interconnecting universities, schools, research centers, health care clinics and other educational and public institutions within the United States.  As with ARNES in Slovenia, Internet2 has partnerships with other National Research and Education Networking (NREN) organizations throughout the world, providing users of Internet2, ARNES and other NRENs with opportunities to collaborate with counterparts worldwide.  

This talk will explore the motivations for dedicated research and education networks (in contrast to the commercial Internet) and how they support the research, teaching, learning, clinical and outreach missions of the institutions they serve. Multimedia examples will be presented showing how various communities - from the musical performing arts to medical education to primary schools - are using Internet2's capabilities.  An overview of these capabilities - which include not only the network infrastructure, but new 'lightpath' network services as well as federated identity management tools and other collaboration infrastructure and services - will be given.