In this webinar, hosted on August 27, 2015, Steven Willmott discusses the benefits of API development in higher education.
APIs are not exclusive to for-profit organizations. In higher education—from statewide university and college systems to smaller private institutions—schools like Notre Dame and Brigham Young University have built highly successful API programs.
4. INTERNET2
Establishment
Founded in 1996 by research universities to take self-
responsibility for an advanced technology environment that
would not otherwise exist, or exist as when and how the
research and education (R&E) community needs it
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5. INTERNET2
Goals
• Realize the power of collaborative scale to create
capabilities no single institution could produce on its own
• Create advanced technology capabilities to extend
leading edge scholarship and research
• Enable new generation of applications and core
supporting infrastructure and technologies
• Achieve durable measure of control over the
community's operating environment
• Transfer technology and experience to drive innovation
and advance the global internet
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6. INTERNET2
Community
• R&E member institutions, affiliates, agencies industry
• Rich and complex regional network community
• Global NREN community
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Internet2 Members and Partners
283+ Higher Education members
67+ Affiliate members
42 Regional & state R&E networks
86+ Industry members
76+ Int’l partners reaching 100+ Nations
93,000+ Community anchor institutions
Focused on advanced
technology needs of
members since 1996
"The idea of being
able to collaborate
with anybody,
anywhere, without
constraint…"
—Jim Bottum, CIO,
Clemson University
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Internet2 100G Advanced Network
15,717 miles of newly acquired
dark fiber
8.8 Tbps of optical capacity
2,400 miles partnered capacity
with Zayo Communications in
support of the Northern Tier
region
100 Gbps of hybrid Layer 2 and
Layer 3 capacity
17 Juniper MX960 routers
supporting Layer 3 service
31 Brocade and Juniper switches
supporting Layer 2 service
49 custom colocation facilities
250+ amplification racks
300+ Ciena ActiveFlex 6500
network elements
10. Tailored Cloud service portfolios
to:
• Enhance academic & research user
mobility in the Cloud
• Accelerate trusted Cloud application
deployment for the enterprise
• Ensure standards-based Cloud
security, accessibility, reliability and
performance with enterprise
scalability
What is Internet2 NET+ Cloud?
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Enables trusted and responsive user mobility in the
cloud, while delivering efficiencies to the enterprise.
NET+ Service Types
11. • Peer-owned, governed and directed
Cloud application portfolio
• Strategic Cloud provider partnerships
who invest in the R&E community’s
needs
• Cloud services specially-tuned with
federated access and network delivery
• Standard business agreements,
simplified terms and pricing models
vetted by 250 CIOs, general counsel
and procurement officers
How? Peer Driven Service Validation & Provider
Partnerships!
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2014 Internet2 Global Summit (Denver, CO)
Internet2/JocelynAugustino
Inquiry Evaluation
Service
Validation
Early
Adopter
General
Availability
Sunset
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Why Internet2 NET+ Cloud?
Over $200,000,000
In estimated operating benefit
for Research and Education
across institutions adopting
NET+ services to date
3,500+
Research and Education
Institutions across the US that
can utilize most NET+ cloud
services
300+
Member institutions
participating in
building business
models, ensuring
federated access,
security, accessibility,
performance &
delivery
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Services proposed
for validation by
Internet2 member
campuses for
inclusion in generally
available Internet2
NET+ portfolio
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Average number of campuses
collaborating on a service validation
effort before it is generally available
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Two Topics
Powering Education with APIs
The emerging API Economy
APIs in Higher Education
Identifying opportunities
3scale API Management:
API Technical Operations
API Engagement and Developer Management
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Who we are
Leading API Management
Provider
• 600+ Live Customers including
many leading brands
• Flexible, scalable, open source-
based solution
• Self Service for fast time to value
• Very cost-effective solution
• Run events like APIStrat, involved
in standards
http://www.3scale.net
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Mission
Believe in the
Transformative power of
APIs
• Aim to enable organizations
world wide to operate and
benefit from APIs
• Education and Science are
close to our hearts
• Partnering with Internet2 is a
great potential partner for us
http://www.3scale.net
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The API Economy
Systems
World
API API API
New Value Through APIS
• Distribution channels, product
support, IoT, agility
• Underpinning the new digital
economy
Adpotion
• Mobile: 54% ecommerce sales
(Forrester)
• B2B: 2016 50% of B2B collab.
via APIs (Gartner)
• IoT: $7.1 Trillion by 2020 (IDC)
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What do people do in the API Economy?
Mobile
Support
Customer
Ecosystem
Partner
Ecosystem
Content/
Transaction
channel
API as a
Business
Internal
Agility
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APIs in Higher Education
Staff, Institution & Student Information Access
Infrastructure for Partner & Vendor Integration
Internal Agility
Scientific Resource and Data Sharing
50+InstitutionswithAPIs(Source:KinLane)
Institution,Studentand3rdParty
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Drill Down: Institutional Information Access
API Use Case Focus
• Data: Terms, Schools,
Courses, Instructors,
Buildings, Rooms, Calendars
• Write once, publish anywhere,
powering Apps, powering
information portals
• Extend to transactions:
bookings, class signup,
calendar updates
http://www.3scale.net
Value
• Consolidation of information
• New Interfaces to access
• Innovation
Great Examples
• University of Washington
• Bingham Young
• University California Berkley
Going further
• Class signups
• Grades
• Assignment submissions
• Staff Information Systems
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Drill Down: Scientific Data Access
API Use Case Focus
• Library collections: catalogue
search, ordering copies,
locating items
• Scientific Data collections:
Genome Databases, complex
data models
• Functional Infrastructure:
operationalized scientific
models
http://www.3scale.net
Value
• Scientific Mission – spreading
knowledge
• Enabling experimentation
• Valuable dissemination (potential
monetization) of IPR
Great Examples
• Harvard DASH
• EBML-EBI
• Lawrence Berkley Labs (Buildings API,
EnergyIQ)
Going further
• Database/Service of Reference
• Read/Write API Efforts
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Drill Down: Student Data Access
API Use Case Focus
• Access to the APIs in previous
cases by student body
• Highly valuable: technically
literate student body, frontiers
of web technology, fill in gaps
in University offerings
• Hackathon events build
knowledge and community
• Bring in external APIs
http://www.3scale.net
Value
• Educational Mission
• Reduce scraping and hacking
• Fulfill new needs
Great Examples
• University California Berkley
• Warwick Students Union API
Going further
• Class signups
• Grades
• Assignment submissions
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3scale Infrastructure
Leading API Management
Provider
• Take Control of your APIs
• Technical operations to control
traffic
• Business operations to
manage access for your user
base(s)
• Single solution providing
global distributed control
Access Control & Security
API Keys & Credentials
Policies & Rate Limits
Traffic Monitoring
Alerts & Notifications
Developer Management
API Signup
Analytics & Reporting
API Portal
Swagger Active Documentation
API Billing & Payments
OneIntegratedSolution
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3scale Infrastructure
Key Problems Solved
• Create a uniform layer for
securing all API access and
provision differently for
different audiences
• Provide excellent automated
developer documentation for
any audience
• Track traffic usage across all
APIs through analytics and
alerts, quickly exclude
undesirable traffic http://www.3scale.net
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Evaluating Opportunities
What we offer
• Best in class infrastructure
• Excellent experience in the
API Economy and Education
domain
• Expert guidance on
opportunities and strategic
plans
• Useful content from Design to
Operations best practice
General Information
• http://www.3scale.net.
• sales@3scale.net, support@3scale.net
Speaker
• Steven Willmott
• @njyx on twitter
• steve@3scale.net
We’d love to connect with
potential Trial Schools and
engage in pilots or other
deployments
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Forthcoming eBook & Conference
“The API Owner’s Manual: Best Practices of
Successful API Teams”
Manfred Borthenschlaeger, Steven Willmott
http://pages.3scale.net/api-owners-manual-wb.html
API Strategy & Practice Conference
Austin Texas, 19-21st November
http://austin2015.apistrat.com/
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Q&A + Resources
NET+ Cloud Services: http://www.internet2.edu/cloud-services/
3scale Main Website: http://www.3scale.net/
API Economy eBook: http://www.3scale.net/api-economy/
The API Owner’s Manual: http://pages.3scale.net/api-owners-manual-wb.html
APIs.JSON: http://www.apisjson.org/
APIs.IO: http://www.apis.io/
APITools: http://www.apitools.com/
APIS in Education: http://www.3scale.net/2014/08/built-innovate-benefit-apis-
higher-education/
Editor's Notes
Steven is a noted industry expert on APIs and leveraging the technology to achieve innovative goals, and holder of a PhD in Artificial Intelligence / Distributed Systems / Communication Networks.
A community organization
Founded in 1996 by research universities, when they realized that commercial networking was not able to meet R&E needs.
The Internet2 community aims to take self-responsibility to build an advanced technology environment – unavailable elsewhere
Internet2 is also a broad community of member organizations who collaborate to advance science, scholarship, and advance technology development
Internet2’s core mission is to be the “forward leaning leader” of the R&E community—to facilitate the next innovation platform and to keep our campuses “way out in front” of commodity offerings
Membership has expanded to 283 universities by the end of July, 2015, plus near 200 leading industry, network and affiliate members (including government agencies and laboratories)
Internet2 broader community has expanded to over 93k community anchor institutions across the U.S. and over 100 international networking partners representing over 50 countries
Internet2 aims to support the democracy of innovation by convening the R&E community and putting researches on the Internet2 fast track.
(Talking Pts)
new challenge to universities: how to align as an industry to create tailored cloud services for the academic enterprise and speed secure, integrated services that meet the mobility needs of users
3 years ago(?)
Scale
Efficiency
Expertise
With the efforts in past three years, I2 now have around 50 services in 5 categories.
How it works?
NET+ is a peer-owned, governed and directed Cloud application portfolio.
SV: I2 member universities sponsor a service, test and tune the service to meet the needs of R&E community
Including: Service running on the
high performance Internet2 Network,
Integration with InCommon,
community security and accessibility compliance, and
contractual terms and business model
When community completes SV, service open for EA and GA subscriptions
over 50 services today in either SV or availability phrase.
Create value to members
Integrated Solutions that scale across R&E;
Due to synergies in standards, implementation and terms provided by community collaboration – over $200M operating benefit to date
INTRODUCTION OF STEVEN