What Are the Goals of Internet2?
Internet2 will provide better and more appropriate network capabilities to support the research and educational activities of the nation’s major universities. However, it is not just a faster version of today’s Internet, but will function as a limited-access R&D vehicle for experimenting with new network technology new collaboration technology new instructional technology For example, Internet2 will be used to prototype new • QOS (quality-of-service) controls – making it possible to give preferential treatment to applications that consume large amounts of data or images, while text transmissions are slower. • Multicast techniques – making it possible to distribute a message efficiently to 100s or 1000s of sites. This currently requires 100s or 1000s of transmissions. • Network-based videoconferencing – making high-quality, desktop-to-desktop interactions possible without having to buy or lease special communication lines Further, Internet2 is designed to accelerate the hand-off of new
