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The way researchers work with one another around the globe could be revolutionized by a new advancement in Internet technology unveiled by Ann Arbor-based Internet2 on Thursday. Internet2 is an alternative nonprofit network used by a group of 208 universities - including the University of Michigan - 70 corporations and 45 government agencies and research organizations to transmit data at tremendous speed compared to the Internet most of us use. The group announced a deal with Level(3), one of the world's largest Internet infrastructure owners, to roll out a faster network with a new feature that will allow enormous amounts...

DURHAM, N.H. -- Another round of lawsuits against college students accused of illegally sharing music and movie files has drawn attention to a new high-speed network used at colleges across the country. The University of New Hampshire is one of hundreds of colleges and organizations using Internet2, which boasts speeds hundreds of times faster than the Internet. UNH researchers use the network to share large files that would take minutes or hours to send over the standard Internet. According to UNH network manager Doug Green, with Internet2, those big files can be sent in seconds. "The Internet2 is a high-speed...

DECEMBER 06, 2004 - NLR (www.nlr.net) is a consortium of research universities and companies working on advanced technologies in network architecture, end-to-end performance and scaling. It's also a testbed network based on optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) that's capable of transmitting 40 simultaneous light wavelengths ("lambdas," or waves), with each wavelength able to transmit at 10Gbit/sec. NLR is the first network to deploy transcontinental circuits based on Ethernet end to end. It's also deploying a routed IP network over the optical DWDM network. By next spring, NLR will connect research facilities in 27 U.S. cities.

IPV6/INTERNET2 ARTICLE IGNITES INTERNET FIRESTORM An FMNN story pointing out privacy concerns related to IPv6 received emphatic responses & thousands of page views across the Internet. (See sample FMNN feedback and responses, below, following article.) FMNN Technology and New Media CorrespondentPeople should be alarmed when a fire starts. IPv6 with Internet2 is a firestorm waiting to happen. That was the thesis of my reporting in mid-December 2004 about IPv6 and Internet2 (apparently my effort was one of the first to truly grapple with the potentially troublesome nature of this new technology). The commentary I have received on the article –...

"We've been working with Internet2 for a while to explore ways we can take advantage of delivering content at these extremely high speeds, and basically manage illegitimate content distribution at the same time," said Chris Russell, the MPAA's vice president of Internet standards and technology. "Those would go hand in hand." The Internet2 project has shown Hollywood the commercial potential--and the dangers--of a network powerful enough to allow a full DVD to be transferred even faster than an ordinary MP3 might be today.

GOVERNMENT’S ‘INTERNET2’ SEEN AS NEXT ‘NET BATTLEFIELD IPv6 – Internet2 - is so complicated it’s been compared to putting “a man on the moon.” While sources say it may be up to 10Xs faster than the current version – its static IP addresses could also allow constant tracking of users. And that’s troublesome, say privacy activists. … By Chris Mack, FMNN Technology and New Media Correspondent Special to Free-Market News Network, December 11 - You didn’t know the government was working on a “new’ Internet? Actually, it’s already being tested in the defense department and a number of universities, but...

AP • New York Times • CBS • MSNBC • AP Medical • MSNBC Space New Network to Link U.S., Russia, China   Dec 23, 10:10 AM (ET) By JIM PAUL CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Soon scientists in the United States, China and Russia will be able to collaborate in cyberspace over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border, developers say.The network, expected to go online next month, will ring the Northern Hemisphere, connecting computers in Chicago with machines in Amsterdam, Moscow, Siberia, Beijing and Hong Kong before hooking up...

<p>With all the economic turmoil surrounding the Internet, it might seem unlikely that people would be eager to invest in yet another Internet.</p> <p>But three St. Louis research institutions announced Tuesday they will work together to connect to Internet2, a network similar to the Internet but with significantly better performance.</p>