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Internet2 Deployment Reaches Major Milestone

Posted by samzenpus on from the they-grow-up-so-fast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Internet2 today announced that the first East to West Coast span on its new nationwide 100 gigabit per second network has been completed and is providing production IP and circuit services. This deployment marks another major milestone in bringing leading- edge networking resources to the research and education community in the United States."

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  1. Still on dial-up by seniorcoder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm too far away for DSL. There is no cable modem service in my street. Am I stuck with dial-up to this mega-network? If so, progress seems a long way off to me.

    1. Re:Still on dial-up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The Internet2 was designed as a testbed for applications by universities and corporations. It was not designed to improve connection speeds to the internet for individuals. It is more like the ARPANET than the internet. Some applications designed on Internet2 may migrate to the users on the internet, but there are no plans for users of the internet to migrate to Internet2.

  2. Re:The Map by Phisbut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost as interested as what is covered is what is not yet covered. Does anyone know how long they expect this to take to fully implement?

    If by "fully implement" you mean "make it accessible to every Joe Somebody like the Internet 1 is", then I hope never. The original internet was intended for science and education, then AOL arrived and now it's filled with Viagra and Paris Hilton videos. Let's hope we learned from our mistakes and leave this Internet2 alone, out of commercial reach.

    --
    After 3 days without programming, life becomes meaningless
    - The Tao of Programming
  3. Re:And it will only be a matter of time... by noahm · · Score: 2, Insightful
    And where do I sign up for this ?

    http://web.mit.edu/admissions/
    http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/
    http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/

    and the list goes on...