Steve Corbato

Presentation: Internet2 Backbone Engineering

Steve Corbato is Director of Backbone Network Infrastructure for Internet2. In this position, he has primary responsibility for the Abilene network. He also holds an affiliate faculty position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Prior to joining Internet2 in June, 2000, Dr. Corbato was principal Internet engineer and manager of network engineering for the University of Washington. In this position, he led the technical development of the Pacific/Northwest GigaPoP, the regional Internet2 aggregation and advanced services network. He also helped develop the Washington State K-20 Telecommunications Network and collaborated on several demonstrations of high-performance networking applications, including one that established the Internet2 Land Speed Record in the spring of 2000.

From his campus position, he was actively involved with the Internet2 initiative from its formative period in late 1995. He was a member of the initial Architecture committee, chaired the Internet2 Routing Working Group, and served on the Abilene Technical Advisory Committee.

Dr. Corbato's academic background is in experimental astrophysics. He holds bachelor's and doctorate degrees in physics from Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. He was a research faculty member at the University of Utah, where he was a member of the team that detected the highest energy cosmic ray observed to date. While in Utah, Corbato became involved in wide area IP networking. He subsequently joined the network engineering group at NorthWestNet, the regional network for the Pacific Northwest during the NSFNet period.

Steve resides with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His wife, Susan Bratton, is a faculty member in intensive care pediatrics at the University of Michigan.

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