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Isn't this the same mission as the vBNS? -scott > From [email protected] Tue Oct 8 13:20 EDT 1996 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Internet II is coming... > Date: Tue, 08 Oct 96 10:10:52 PDT > From: Yakov Rekhter <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Content-Type> : > text> > Content-Length: 2488 > > fyi > - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >From www.nytimes.com: > > October 7, 1996 > > University Internet Proposed > > By LAWRENCE M. FISHER > > A group of 34 research universities agreed last week > to create a new national network for higher > education, to be called Internet II, which will offer > higher speeds and more reliable service than the current > Internet. > > As described in the Oct. 11 issue of The Chronicle of > Higher Education, the new network is intended to deliver > the vastly higher speeds needed to allow the > simultaneous transmission of voice, video and data. > Internet II would give researchers the bandwidth they > need to enable distance learning, digital libraries and > on-line collaborative research. > > The organizers of Internet II say its advanced > capabilities will ultimately become available on the > existing Internet as commercial service providers find > ways to offer more bandwidth -- a bigger pipeline to > transmit a high volume of information -- at attractive > prices. The research universities have agreed to > establish and finance a new organization, with > membership fees to help create the network. They also > hope to get financing from telecommunications and > computer companies, as well as from the federal > government. > > "What we're trying to do is solve a whole bunch of > technical problems having to do with making the Internet > operate at a higher level of functionality," said > Michael Roberts, who has been working on the Internet II > proposal and is vice president of Educom, a consortium > of nearly 600 colleges and 100 companies that promote > computing in higher education. "What everybody needs is > something on the order of 10 times more bandwidth." > > According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the > decision to move forward with the plan was made during a > meeting of campus technology officers in Chicago last > week. Computer science specialists from Pennsylvania > State and Stanford universities and the Universities of > California, Chicago, Michigan and North Carolina will > play leading roles in the network's development. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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