Internet2,
Recently, Internet2 was launched. Led by more than 180 U.S. universities working with industry and government, Internet2 is an advanced network that supports complex applications and technologies for research and higher education. The universities are connected to one another through regional networks over Abilene—a superfast nationwide backbone—developed with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and Indiana University.
Abilene operates at over two and a half gigabits per second. Ten sets of encyclopedias can move over the fiber-optic lines in one second flat. Universities connect to the network at gigabit portals (called gigaPoPs) that have transfer rates of at least one gigabit. Internet2 is capable of supporting applications that would be impossible over the regular Internet. These include high-definition television and complex multicasts.
Internet2 also supports the next generation of Internet Protocol—IPv6. IPv6 adds more digits to Internet addresses, expanding exponentially the number of devices that can be connected—that is, cell phones, appliances, even your wristwatch!
Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia, industry, and government that helped foster today’s Internet in its infancy. Unlike today’s Internet, however, Internet2 is not open to the general public. Researchers are using its advanced technical capabilities, security, speed, and capacity to test real-time, bidirectional full-screen video and audio streams for surgical collaboration, live music performances, holographic images, studying astronomy, linking high-power electron microscopes to the Web, and more.
One of the goals of Internet2 is to guarantee 30-frames-per-second synchronized video across multiple networks without delays, jerkiness, or dropped frames. Many of the new technologies now in the experimental stage on Internet2 will eventually be offered over the global Internet.
Recently, Internet2 was launched. Led by more than 180 U.S. universities working with industry and government, Internet2 is an advanced network that supports complex applications and technologies for research and higher education. The universities are connected to one another through regional networks over Abilene—a superfast nationwide backbone—developed with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and Indiana University.
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Abilene operates at over two and a half gigabits per second. Ten sets of encyclopedias can move over the fiber-optic lines in one second flat. Universities connect to the network at gigabit portals (called gigaPoPs) that have transfer rates of at least one gigabit. Internet2 is capable of supporting applications that would be impossible over the regular Internet. These include high-definition television and complex multicasts.
Internet2 also supports the next generation of Internet Protocol—IPv6. IPv6 adds more digits to Internet addresses, expanding exponentially the number of devices that can be connected—that is, cell phones, appliances, even your wristwatch!
Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia, industry, and government that helped foster today’s Internet in its infancy. Unlike today’s Internet, however, Internet2 is not open to the general public. Researchers are using its advanced technical capabilities, security, speed, and capacity to test real-time, bidirectional full-screen video and audio streams for surgical collaboration, live music performances, holographic images, studying astronomy, linking high-power electron microscopes to the Web, and more.
One of the goals of Internet2 is to guarantee 30-frames-per-second synchronized video across multiple networks without delays, jerkiness, or dropped frames. Many of the new technologies now in the experimental stage on Internet2 will eventually be offered over the global Internet.
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