What
Is Next Generation Internet2 Building on the tremendous success
of the last ten years in generalizing and adapting research
Internet technology to academic needs, the university
community has joined together with government and industry
partners to accelerate the next stage of Internet development
in academia. The Internet2 project is bringing focus,
energy and resources to the development of a new family
of advanced applications to meet emerging academic requirements
in research, teaching and learning. Internet2 universities,
working with industry, government and other research
and education networking organizations are addressing
the major challenges facing the next generation of university
networks by: First and most importantly, creating
and sustaining a leading edge network capability for
the national research community, Second, directing
network development efforts to enable a new generation
of applications to fully exploit the capabilities of
broadband networks, and Third, working to rapidly
transfer new network services and applications to all
levels of educational use and to the broader Internet
community, both nationally and internationally.
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