Talk about fast internet! 100 times faster! Wow Imagine true web TV! Link What is Internet2? Think of Internet2 as a higher-tech version of the regular Internet. Like "Internet1," Internet2 connects computers all across the country. But it uses newer, more experimental technology. That can make it less stable than Internet1 — but it's also about 100 times as fast under typical conditions. Who gets to use it? More than 200 universities and 60 companies belong to Internet2, as do a handful of organizations and government agencies. To join, members must contribute research toward "developing a better Internet," says Douglas Van Houweling, CEO of the non-profit group that runs Internet2. It is not open to the public. Who pays for it? Users pay fees to the non-profit that administers the network. A typical university would pay about $200,000 a year. Government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, also provide some funding. Full artilce @ source link.
Why would you need Internet2 when you have www.clutchfans.net ? OR I wonder how all of us will LOOK in the Internet2 dimension?
Imagine you can download gigs of rocket games in a few minutes. They were reporting a whole movie can take less than 1 min to download sometimes. Imagine the chat room with live rocket feeds! On second thought, the bandwidth will make clutch go file chapter 11, so this might not be a good idea
The fiber backbone that we had at TAMU that was part of the HiPCAT "INTERNET2" and only cost around 8 million just for the light... Add in the backend Cisco servers that CIS had to put in place and we're talking about a 30 million dollar project...
there are 2 internets? is this what George W. Bush was talking about when he said "I hear there's rumors on the internets"?
We have Internet2 here in UTD, but I don't think it's that impressive since there aren't many services that are provided for Internet2 uses.
All going to be a big waste of time as Wireless goes global. And city wide Networks are available. DD
We are a couple generations away from wireless totally replace land wires. So that would have to be internet7! Internet10 is when you receive signals directly in your brain!
Hold on... I can't type and read my BBS RSS feeds in my BRAIN at the same time and... WHOA... there it is... Someone just added another Lindsey Lohan thread on the hangout...
Students are already putting internet2 to good use. Link RIAA slaps students with lawsuit By Editing Staff Friday April 15, 2005 Filesharing use is up in Canada. Photo - CC The Recording Industry Association of America has filed lawsuits in the United States which they have yet been unable to accomplish in Canada, due the fact that file-sharing is considered legal here. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 405 lawsuits against students at 18 colleges across the US. The RIAA says these students were illegally sharing songs and films over the Internet2. They claim that 3,900 songs were available on the network. The RIAA said that each person sued downloaded an average of 2,300 songs. Motion Picture Association of America has also filed several lawsuits, against students, but has declined to comment on the number of students sued. The MPAA claim that users of the Internet2 had swapped 99 terabytes of films per day. This is more then 15,000 full length films. The Internet2 is a high speed network used by 207 US universities. It was designed to provide a high speed alternative for researchers and other educators to share information. The Internet2 allows for very high speed connections — a film can be downloaded in as little as 30 seconds, compared with approximately six hours over other high-speed connections, such as DSL. Cary Sherman the president of the Recording Industry Association of America is quoted as saying that "Internet2 is increasingly becoming the network of choice for students looking to steal songs and other copyrighted works on a massive scale.” Some have raised the issue of how the RIAA and MPAA gained access to the network, as it is a closed network environment for universities only. The Internet2 does not know how they gained access as they have not given them access or handed over any data. The RIAA will not say how it did the monitoring, but claims it was entirely legal A spokesperson for the Internet2 told the Los Angeles Times that copyright infringement is prohibited under its rules, though its chief executive, Doug Van Houweling, in a separate interview admitted that he is aware that there is a lot of file-sharing going on. He also stated that it is possible to filter traffic so as to block illegal activity; however, it would slow the network's performance and they will not be doing it. By Editing Staff,
Internet2 is just WAY too expensive for it to be practical for commercial use. ISP's and even end users couldn't afford the upgrade it would require.
