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Article In The Guardian On Internet2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internet-2-the-sequel dept.

Sam Halter writes: "The Guardian carries this story about the future of the Internet and the expermental Super high-speed academic networks that are being built in Europe and the U.S."

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  1. Internet2 nothing special, NOT new version of 'net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK Folks. I worked in URi's networking department and I'll tell you what I2 is. I2 is a high-speed connection to other universities with I2, it is NOT the 'future' it is NOT anything special. Packets originating inside our school hit the router, if the destination is on I2, the packets go through the I2 pipe, if not they hit the commercial router. You can get stats on URI's Internet connections at http://zeppole.uri.edu/mrtg/, you can see that the I2 is not heavily used because most people want stuff off the .com TLDs.
    If I want to download an .iso from redhat.com it goes really slowly, if I get it from rutgers.edu it flies. Nothing 'revolutionary' just the Internet as it was meant to be.
    Now if I could only connect URI to the high-school hosted in our building (the high school is ten feet above me, but 12 internet hops!).
    If network folks interconnected more, the world would be a lot better.