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December 07, 2006, 03:00 PM ET
Internet2 Turns 10 and Unwraps a Gift
Internet2, the consortium that has brought high-speed networking to colleges across the country, just turned 10 years old. This week it celebrated in style, unveiling the first piece of a next-generation network that should be considerably faster than the current one, Abilene.
When completed, the new fiber-optic network will carry data on 10 wavelengths of light, each of which can transmit 10 gigabits of data per second -- which, as it happens, is Abilene's overall capacity (The Chronicle, May 5).
The first group to use Internet2's souped-up network is NYSERNet, a nonprofit consortium in New York State that encourages science research and online collaborative work, according to Network World. NYSERNet officials took the new network for its first spin by joining an Internet2 conference, held in Chicago, through a high-definition video feed. --Brock Read
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