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Internet2 Plus P2P Equals...

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the movies-on-demand dept.

Bill, I'm lost in cyberspace... writes "News.com has an article up about a Direct Connected P2P network set up at universities which are on Internet2. This is majorly cool! More direct information is available at i2hub.com for those lucky enough to be located at a University with Internet2 access."

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  1. Hmm... by SavedLinuXgeeK · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well at my school, the majority of the people with access to Internet2 are the Graduate Students, and I have a feeling they aren't spending their time file sharing (Though I could be majorly wrong, feel free to correct me). Ive thought about the abilities of Internet2, and the greatest things I could come up with were to instantly download ISO's for Linux Distributions, or massive amounts of source Code, or to trade a huge wealth of research. Im sure I am missing alot.

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  2. Congest it by pubjames · · Score: 5, Interesting


    It would be very interesting if the students managed to completely congest "internet2". I'm serious - if they do it then it demonstrates that we would still need more bandwidth.

  3. Re:Automatic Internet2 connections by grub · · Score: 3, Interesting


    My understanding was that any connection between 2 schools that were on Internet2 would automatically use the faster other pipe.

    That's how it should be.

    In .CA we have Canarie (CA*net4) which is a high speed fiber optic network for research and education. Much like the US' Internet2 which it ties to. At our workplace (biomedical reseach) we have a gigabit fiber line coming to us, our upstream provider does the BGP split. When getting stuff from universities and other researchers it screams. (I've burned a CD from an NFS mount half the continent away as a test/joke/whim)

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  4. They'll get connected. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You know, Internet2 might be separate from Internet1, but I think it won't be that way for long. I thought of this the first time I heard of Internet2, which was years ago.

    Think about it. All it takes is ONE host on Internet2 providing a connection to ONE host on Internet1. And it *will* happen. Just wait and see. Maybe it will happen for illegitimate reasons, but I think it will happen for very legitimate reasons. Someone will need access for some reason or another, and there you have it.

    Personally, I think that instead of building a bunch of separate networks, they should build more high-speed infrastructure for the Internet. Bigger pipes and more of them, more satellites, etc. Then, the speed will be there for just about anything, and communications within organizations can be protected with VPNs or other technologies.

    Either that, or build many "parallel" Internets, each with specific purposes (science, government, business, 1337 h4x0rz, etc.) with highly controlled firewalled connections between them for allowing legitimate traffic to go between them.