January 29, 1999

High-Speed Internet 2 Network to Be Operational This Month

The backbone of Internet 2 now stretches from coast to coast, and the high-speed research network will be fully operational by the end of the month, a spokesman for the project says.

Members of the Internet 2 project, a group of 130 universities working to build faster computer links and new network tools for their campuses, have been constructing the network since April. It is called Abilene, for a storied

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