Research and Education's Technical Community to Gather in New Orleans for the 2019 Internet2 Technology Exchange
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet2 will host its annual technical meeting, the Technology Exchange, for the research and education (R&E) community from December 9-12 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, convening technologists, architects, scientists, researchers, engineers, operators, and students from around the U.S. and the globe. The meeting offers a robust program of workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and presentations in advanced networking, cloud architecture, trusted access for education and research (InCommon), and information security.
Program Highlights:
-- Matthew R. Rantanen, the director of technology for the Southern
California Tribal Chairmen's Association and director of the Tribal
Digital Village Network Initiative, is the featured speaker at The
Exchange session on Tuesday, December 10 at 4 p.m. CT. Rantanen, an
expert on community tribal wireless networking, is of Cree (First
Nations, Canada), Finnish, and Norwegian decent, and an advocate for net
neutrality, broadband for everyone, and opening more spectrum for public
consumption.
-- Scientific Computing in the Cloud - session will explore the growth in
cloud services for scientific research and the effectiveness of
commercial cloud platforms and services to support applications critical
to the academic research community; discuss NSF support of
cyberinfrastructure initiatives, including the CC* program and those
involving cloud resources; present an update on Internet2's NSF-funded
Exploring Clouds for Acceleration of Science (E-CAS) initiative; and
offer examples of Internet2 research engagement activities to foster and
enhance campus-based research activities and collaboration.
-- Supporting Esports Infrastructure Requirements in PA: KINBER's Esports
KESDX Service - session will outline how KINBER identified the need to
better support the increasing esports and gaming needs in Pennsylvania
in response to community requirements from campuses and added support
for esports to its portfolio of network services.
-- Twenty Years of Camping: Flying Pigs and Dead Guppies - this year marks
twenty years of middleware work within Internet2. Some of the activities
have been significant successes and others have been conspicuous
failures. This panel will discuss some of those successes and failures
and examine what led to those outcomes. In some cases, higher ed needs
presaged needs in the broader marketplace; in some areas, international
cultural differences led to technology and policy invention; in other
projects, we misestimated the ability of an R&E institution to line up
its varied constituencies or for developers to refactor code.
-- What is Happening in Network Services? - a lively session on the
progress of the Internet2 Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) project
along with a general overview of what is happening with the Network,
including the progress since awarding the Optical RFP, the release of
the Packet RFP, new services and progress with the platform model, and
updates on the testbed.
-- eduroam Mini-Mobility Day--eduroam is a global wireless network access
service for research and education. This session will provide an update
on the eduroam service, including a report on the Utah Education and
Telehealth Network/Internet2 K12 Program pilot, and other eduroam and
wireless presentations by community and industry expert.
-- Towards a Next Generation Cyber-System for Data Intensive Sciences in
the Large Hadron Collider, LIGO, LSST and EHT Programs and the National
Research Platform - session by Harvey Newman of Caltech will discuss the
progress towards addressing the challenges faced by these science
programs and communities through advances in new software defined (SDN)
and named data network (NDN) architectures coupled to high throughput
analysis platforms and caching methods, end-to-end monitoring systems,
intent-based workflow optimization methods with real-time analytics, and
state of the art long distance data transfer methods and tools.
-- Building the Millennium Falcon Without Knolling (or the Instruction
Booklet) - session by Jefferson Burson of Harvard University and staff
from Internet2 will focus on how to assemble a hybrid cloud solution
from the pieces of Cloud Connect, NET+ AWS, NET+ GCP, and InCommon
Trusted Access Platform. In these early stages of assembly, the R&E
community is in the processes of narrowing down the many, many options
into a few ways to fit the pieces together. L2 or L3 Direct Connect?
Project per PI, or Project per Department? Root credential escrow or
self service (or both)?
-- Helping Build a 4+ Terabit/Second Network in One Week - four Women in IT
Networking at SC (WINS) alumni join this panel discussion to share
technical details on the unique areas of the network they have helped to
build since their first experience with SCinet at the SC Conference.
-- Internet2 Inclusivity Initiative: Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned
from Community Women Tech Leaders - panel discussion focused on the
experiences of female tech leaders within their respective
organizations, including the creation of their own diversity, equity and
inclusion (DEI) initiatives and mentorship programs, leading a diverse
technical team, and what they have found works well for them.
-- Improving Diffusion of RPKI within the Internet2 Community - session
will report on the progress and lessons learned of Indiana University
and Internet2's coordinated effort to improve the diffusion of Resource
Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) within the Internet2 community.
The 2019 Technology Exchange meeting is co-hosted by Internet2 members Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure (LONI), Louisiana State University, and the University of New Orleans. For more information on the conference program or to register to attend, visit https://meetings.internet2.edu/2019-technology-exchange/
EDITOR'S NOTE: Members of the media interested in obtaining a complimentary press badge for the 2019 Internet2 Technology Exchange should contact Sara Aly, saly@internet2.edu.
About Internet2
Internet2® is a non-profit, member-driven advanced technology community founded by the nation's leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 serves 321 U.S. universities, 60 government agencies, 43 regional and state education networks and through them supports more than 100,000 community anchor institutions, over 1,000 InCommon participants, and 56 leading corporations working with our community, and 70 national research and education network partners that represent more than 100 countries.
Internet2 delivers a diverse portfolio of technology solutions that leverages, integrates, and amplifies the strengths of its members and helps support their educational, research and community service missions. Internet2's core infrastructure components include the nation's largest and fastest research and education network that was built to deliver advanced, customized services that are accessed and secured by the community-developed trust and identity framework.
Internet2 offices are located in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Denver, Colo.; Washington, D.C.; and West Hartford, Conn. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu or follow @Internet2 on Twitter.
Contact: Sara Aly
Communications Manager, Internet2
saly@internet2.edu
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