What is WPIs history with Internet2?
Part of the funding for the Goddard GigaPop came from a National Science Foundation competitive grant awarded to WPI in 1999. The NSF grant was effective July 1, 1999 with an expiration date estimated at June 30, 3001. WPI joined Internet2, a national organization and research project in September 1999. Students and researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have access to some of the most prestigious government, science, health, and university laboratories around the country through the “Goddard GigaPOP, L.L.C.,” an aggregation center for high speed data traffic to the national Internet2 project. The Goddard GigaPop is a Worcester-based Internet2 joint venture by WPI and NEES Communications, Inc. (NEESCom), the telecommunications subsidiary of New England Electric Systems, a Westborough Massachusetts-based National Grid USA. NEESCom teamed with telephone companies and Internet service providers to create a high-speed voice and data network that will serve much of southern Ne
