Internet II is coming...
Scott Huddle
huddle at mci.net
Tue Oct 8 19:41:59 UTC 1996
Isn't this the same mission as the vBNS?
-scott
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> >From www.nytimes.com:
>
> October 7, 1996
>
> University Internet Proposed
>
> By LAWRENCE M. FISHER
>
> A group of 34 research universities agreed last week
> to create a new national network for higher
> education, to be called Internet II, which will offer
> higher speeds and more reliable service than the current
> Internet.
>
> As described in the Oct. 11 issue of The Chronicle of
> Higher Education, the new network is intended to deliver
> the vastly higher speeds needed to allow the
> simultaneous transmission of voice, video and data.
> Internet II would give researchers the bandwidth they
> need to enable distance learning, digital libraries and
> on-line collaborative research.
>
> The organizers of Internet II say its advanced
> capabilities will ultimately become available on the
> existing Internet as commercial service providers find
> ways to offer more bandwidth -- a bigger pipeline to
> transmit a high volume of information -- at attractive
> prices. The research universities have agreed to
> establish and finance a new organization, with
> membership fees to help create the network. They also
> hope to get financing from telecommunications and
> computer companies, as well as from the federal
> government.
>
> "What we're trying to do is solve a whole bunch of
> technical problems having to do with making the Internet
> operate at a higher level of functionality," said
> Michael Roberts, who has been working on the Internet II
> proposal and is vice president of Educom, a consortium
> of nearly 600 colleges and 100 companies that promote
> computing in higher education. "What everybody needs is
> something on the order of 10 times more bandwidth."
>
> According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the
> decision to move forward with the plan was made during a
> meeting of campus technology officers in Chicago last
> week. Computer science specialists from Pennsylvania
> State and Stanford universities and the Universities of
> California, Chicago, Michigan and North Carolina will
> play leading roles in the network's development.
>
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