Category Archives: Internet2

Large Hadron Collider’s big network

15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network.  Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet. In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]

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My latest read – The Future of the Internet

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University wrote The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. This book is very interesting for all the wrong reasons. Zittrain documents that existing, closed, controlled systems are damaging the internet an [...]

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Internet2 Spring Meeting netcast

Today begins Internet2’s Spring Member meeting.  The hot topic of conversation? Broadband stimulus funding.

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BoreasNet now 200GBs

The Boreas Network in the Midwest connecting Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been upgraded to a 200GB network capacity. This Regional Optical Network (RON) will be advancing the research opportunities in the upper midwest by enhancing the established optical network with new links installed [...]

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My latest read – Planet India

India is the second fastest growing economy in the world, second only to their Asian neighbor China.  Both have embraced globalization yet are racing to secure resources as their economies, populations, markets and environments grow out of control.  India has the second largest population with almost 1.5 billion citizens. My understanding of India’s impact on the [...]

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The internet is dead. Long live the internet!

The 2008 Fall Internet2 member meeting last week in New Orleans proved that Big Science is here and I’m not sure the world is prepared to handle LHC’s generated data.  The session included an HD video conference to the Large Hadron Collider. Session Overview: October 15, 2008, 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM | UTC/GMT -5 hours (CDT) The [...]

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Internet2 fall member meeting

The Fall member meeting of Internet2 is underway this week in New Orleans. Tulane President Scott Cowen is giving the keynote address. Catch the conference netcasts here. HD video is supported as well. Tags: Internet2, bandwidth, network, fiber, globalization, trends

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What is Internet2 ?

I met Dr. Brian Shepard, Assistant Professor of Pedagogical Technology at the USC Thornton School of Music at the 2007 Internet2 meeting in Chicago and thought his clip at YouTube really explains Internet2 more elegantly than Fox News.  But for some reason USC will not permit this YouTube video to be embedded into blogs.  So [...]

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ESNet on steroids

There is an article about future capacity relating to the ESNet that is ramping up to support 400 Gigabits/second.  Although I’m glad the news is available, We’ll not access to Internet2 via a PDA as anything beyond Draft N for another 3 years when ESNet comes up to speed. Tags: Internet2, bandwidth, network, fiber, globalization, trends

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Internet2 on Fox News … well kinda

Well I’m not exactly sure either guy knows what Internet2 is today but clearly Jeremy Kaplan from PC Magazine does not convey the basics of Internet2…Yikes. Tags: Internet2, bandwidth, network, fiber, globalization, trends

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