From coast to coast Internet2 is now connecting educational and research institutions across a new nationwide network at 100 Gigabits per second. For the Midwest is a perfect compliment to the new Boreas network announced this past spring. Public networks like WiscNet are automatically wired into this new upgrade. What a great jump for our national education and research communities.
Other views: ComputerWorld, PCWorld (Australia), The Register, PC Pro, Network World.
The network upgrade provides power and opportunity for K12 and Higher Educational institutions to continue to engage a global world for shared knowledge opportunities. At the regional level this brings city governments, libraries, hospitals, museums and technical colleges onto the network and into the conversation of participation. With a backbone of 100 GB/s HD video conferencing and remote instrumentation become accessible for the first time to a growing number of educators and students.
Tags: Internet2, 100Gbs, network, Boreas, WiscNet, trends
One reply on “Internet2: Now running 100Gigabits”
Not to mention extremely fast access to copyright infringing music and movies ;)