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Re: Internet II is coming...

  • From: Nikos Mouat
  • Date: Tue Oct 08 16:32:49 1996

not all universities qualify for the vbns.

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Scott Huddle wrote:

> 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> 
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> > 
> > 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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