As a member, your institution will influence and guide the strategic direction of Internet2 initiatives and solutions for the advancement of the entire R&E community by participating on program advisory groups, task forces, working and special-interest groups, and the Board of Trustees, and by contributing at conferences, workshops, and professional development events.

You are given the opportunity to influence and contribute to Internet2 services at many levels, from the most technical details of services to the strategic vision for the future.

Unlike commercial service providers, Internet2 invites and encourages its community to lead and participate in advisory and governance activities that help determine its portfolio of research and education services up to and including being a member of its Board of Trustees.

Internet2’s Research Engagement Team provides your institution with consultation, training, advanced technologies and funding support for research.

We bring together the infrastructure, cloud services, bandwidth, and security to help your institution advance research & education.

As technologies and approaches change, Internet2 helps generate engagement and collaboration opportunities that are tailored to serving your institutions’s specific needs.

You participate in an ecosystem of passionately collaborative leaders who create partnerships, initiatives and share insights to advance research, education and scholarship missions now and into the future.

Position your organization to leverage emerging technologies and services that are critical to helping your institution or organization flourish, prosper, and compete in the decades to come.

You join with your peers and colleagues across R&E in delivering research, scholarship, education, and community service on a global scale.

When you work with Internet2 and its global network of experts, you gain impact and knowledge from the “power of community”; you prepare your organization to take on common challenges and solutions to meet its ever-evolving needs.

You collaborate, contribute, and benchmark knowledge in a community with a collective passion to adopt common best practices and share strategic insights to positively transform the world through research, education, and scholarship.

Because of the high level of engagement, you not only interact with Internet2, but you also connect with other members and participants who have common research and education challenges and opportunities.

Other service providers focus on the “I sell” and “you buy” relationship and are not committed to bringing together the research and education community in a way that focuses on higher education’s unique needs.

You have access to a national organization that consists of and supports an R&E human network and a community of like-minded peers dedicated to advancing research and education.
You are part of a community focused on solving challenges of computational science globally using national infrastructure, identity and cloud services.

You can actively participate in working groups and steering committees to help shape programs and deliverables.

You receive discounted rates to participate in face-to-face and virtual convening opportunities to learn, share, and network.

Access secure, abundant, shared and dedicated capacity using Internet2 Peer Exchange, Cloud Connect, and Rapid Private Interconnect.

You connect to an advanced network and services designed especially for abundant bandwidth, zero congestion, and one that is peered to global research and education networks reaching over 100 countries globally.

Your researchers, students, faculty and staff have the ability to move increasingly large amounts of data between collaborators nationally and globally quickly and securely

This cyberinfrastructure is only possible because it’s built, operated and optimized by input from you and for the benefit of your scientists, researchers, and scholars.

You connect to the only national and globally-connected infrastructure in the U.S. that supports global research collaborations and connectivity to global research centers, labs, data assets and computational resources in 100+ countries across 65+ global partner networks.

You connect to the infrastructure built to simplify networking for large data workflows specifically to support researchers and scientists who can use network infrastructure to provision, change and support their own private network needs

You get smarter, more efficient network operations with automation, orchestration and management–incorporating AI and machine learning with the future-ready Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI)–the fifth iteration of the Internet2 Network.

Unlike any other national network, Internet2’s network stats and availability metrics are transparent to all members.

Participating in the use of advanced technologies that remove 668 metric tons of carbon per year from the environment.

Internet2 peer exchange gives you use of the existing peering capabilities to major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) for access to cloud SaaS services.

Simplifying Cloud Access through peering capabilities, direct connect private access to Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud up to 5G at no additional cost.

Through NET+, your institution has access to leading cloud services that are optimized by your R&E peer community for successful procurement and implementation—allowing all institutions to save costs, manage risks and deploy optimized services quickly.

NET+ cloud services are optimized for:

● Features and Functionality
● Technical Integration
● Security & Compliance
● Pricing
● Contract Terms
● Deployment

Attend or send staff to specific events and training designed to grow your institution’s cloud IQ and help you enable campus-wide cloud adoption.

You can get help and support to pay for cloud infrastructure through cloud grants and credit applications.

You are part of a community that directly supports and leverages community scale and expertise for the adoption of cloud at a national scale.

You can shape new cloud capabilities for high-performance science through emerging initiatives with the NSF and others.

The InCommon Federation and Trusted Access Platform helps you manage your users and their access across educational institutions with the trusted identity and access management (IAM) standard in research and education for 20 years.

The best-in-class tools and training to grow your institution’s IAM skills.

Your network operators and engineers get community-powered security standards and practices that help them assess their network’s implementation of routing integrity controls.

Simple and secure global connectivity for all of your users with the ease of using home institution credentials.

You get preferred pricing for unlimited server and user certificates for one annual fee, covering all of your domains—providing central control with a delegated workflow.

Leverage cloud security services that are vetted by your peers for performance and integration:

● DDOS
● NET+ Splunk
● NET+ Duo
● NET+ CrashPlan

Identify service problems across networks with performance and analytics services:

● Deepfield Analytics
● Performance Assurance Service
● perfSONAR Performance Tools