What is Internet2?
Internet2® is a not-for-profit consortium, led by over 200 US universities, developing and deploying advanced network applications and technology, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. With participation by over 60 leading companies, Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia, industry and government that helped foster today’s Internet in its infancy.
The best description comes from the official Internet2 consortium webpage: Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment, and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. By bringing research and academia together with technology leaders from industry, government, and the international community, Internet2 promotes collaboration and innovation that has a fundamental impact on the future of the Internet. Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70 leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international partner organizations. … Internet2 members leverage our high-performa
“A consortium of research universities in the United States, supported by the government and the private sector, has developed a new network, called the “Internet2,” which operates independently of the existing Internet, and uses faster routing methods and more advanced technology to transmit data up to 100 times faster than the existing Internet”. “The Internet2 project seeks (1) to improve the infrastructure to sustain network capability for the research community, (2) to direct application development toward optimizing the advantages of broadband networks, and (3) to transfer knowledge to the rest of the academic community and perhaps to the commercial marketplace” For more information about internet2, please see Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, by Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, and Jeffrey P.Weingart, available at http://www.lawcatalog.com/product_detail.cfm?affil=gigalaw&productID=1084Also, please see visit internet2 website at http://www.internet2.e
