Whatever happened to Internet2 ?

[venk]

THe super speed Internet highway that was supposed to transfer data and crazy speeds?

 

[Yakkum]

i believe al gore vetoed that project because he didn't want his invention to have a sequel, something about damaging the integrity of the original.

 

[randomlinh]

schools are on internet2 aren't they? as in universities. UMD being one of them Makes transfering to other schools nice and spiffy if they're on it.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

It's still happening, it just takes time. Last I heard there were still less than 10 schools on it.

 

[Swanny]

I know RIT has it. A friend of mine goes there. But I don't think all students have access to it.

 

[StattlichPassat]

What exactly is it? Can someone just lay down an OC3 and call it 'Internet2'? I'm confused. I'm a University student and we're on a T1.

I've been wondering about this as well...

 

[Goosemaster]

Yeah..is it a OC768 or something that I haven't yet hacked into??

 

[MustPost]

There still working on it. Its partially for educational purposes, partially to try out new tech. I believe it uses IPv6.

 

[MustPost]

Internet 2

 

[N8Magic]

It's in service now, but limited to educational institutions and big business.

Our national network Ca*Net3 just joined up as part of the international Internet2 network. It has multiple OC-192 streams (~40 GBps), making it the fastest national network in the world.

Our government announced last week that Ca*Net4 is in the works, and donated $110,000,000 towards building it. This network will be 8 times as fast as the old one, with total throughput of around 320GBps.

More info on Ca*Net3 can be found here.

A cool live-updated network traffic page can be found here.

 

[yobarman]

i go to RIT and apperently we have it...but i doubt it's in use here at the dorms cause the speeds suck.

 

[Hubris]

Well, I know it's hooked up between UCLA and Cornell (here). It was weird, earier this morning, there was a system glitch at Cornell and I couldn't connect to the internet, but I fired up UT, thinking it might just be my browser. Well, a clanmate of mine has a server set up at UCLA where he's a network admin, and it was the only server that I could connect to. It was pretty cool. Plus, I always get a sub-100 ping to that server.

 

[SagaL0re]

<< It's still happening, it just takes time. Last I heard there were still less than 10 schools on it. >>



Pennsylvania College of Technology has it. We invented it. (really, we did!)

 

[yakko]

<< Yeah..is it a OC768 or something that I haven't yet hacked into??



>>

I want an OC768 line.

 

[spanky]

internet2?!?!?!

 

[Kermy]

More and more schools are getting on it, we (Cal Poly, SLO) just got it a couple of months ago but limited to specific departments I think. And I'm pretty sure some of the other CSUs and UCs already have em.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

<< More and more schools are getting on it, we (Cal Poly, SLO) just got it a couple of months ago but limited to specific departments I think. And I'm pretty sure some of the other CSUs and UCs already have em. >>



Cool, im at my local JC right now but will be transfering there as a Junior with a few years left if everything goes as planned in 05

 

[Pocatello]

Even Idaho State University has it here.

 

[Jfur]

Please read the website linked above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!