Zeus_Hunt Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 At its Fall 2007 member meeting, the Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators.The blazingly fast network connection was demonstrated for the first time when the organization established a connection between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Fermilab in Batavia, IL and was able to transfer a third of a terabyte within five minutes over a 10 GB/s connection.Internet 2 is often confused with a next-generation Internet infrastructure for the public. However, the Internet 2 is limited to currently 207 connected universities that use the high-speed network as infrastructure to quickly exchange data and test new technologies that one day could find their way into the public Internet. 12 years after the unveiling of the idea for the Internet 2 – the concept dates back to a presentation at the Monterey Futures Conference in September 1995, the Internet 2 has reached an initial capacity of 100 GB/s, which can be provided to researchers and educators in dedicated bandwidth chunks of 10 Gb/s beginning in January of next year. According to the consortium, the new optical infrastructure provides a “uniquely scalable platform on which to build side-by-side networks that serve different purposes, such as network research and telemedicine.” Representatives for Internet2 said that the network will be continuing to provide an advanced Internet Protocol (IP) Network that supports production networking technologies such as IPv6, multicast, and other high-performance networking technologies."Today's milestone marks the completion of an ambitious effort to exponentially increase the capacity and flexibility of the networking resources available to serve the rapidly changing needs of the Internet2 community," said Doug Van Houweling, Internet2 president and CEO. "More importantly, we believe the Internet2 Network and its new capabilities will play an integral part in enabling our members to provide the robust cyber-infrastructure our community requires to support innovative research and education."Internet2 currently has provisioned ten 10 Gb/s links on each segment of the network, which however can be scaled to 20 or 40 or 100 or more wavelengths. The consortium is also working with partners such as Level 3, Ciena and Juniper to test and develop new 40 and 100 Gb/s technologies.View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozen Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I can only daydream about the days that this will be usable by the public. It probably wont be released for public until we actually need an internet that fast were all file sizes are in terabytes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 a look at things to come.good one z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsane Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 some countries already use IPv6 for the public, which is what the internet2 is based on. it's no where near the speeds mentioned here, obviously, but the protocol is perfectly capable of handling it :PKorea, China, Sweden and a few other EU nations come to mind...btw, the internet2 switch in jacksonville, fl is only a few blocks from my house. i'll go take some pics for you guys in a few days if i can find my digi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 some countries already use IPv6 for the public, which is what the internet2 is based on. it's no where near the speeds mentioned here, obviously, but the protocol is perfectly capable of handling it :PKorea, China, Sweden and a few other EU nations come to mind...Romania not??? :blink: anyway, this kinda connection would be useless 2 me since my harddisk is somewhere between 12-17 mb/s :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Interesting article. It doesn't say if this is based on the current DSL wiring, which I'm assuming it is... or something more expensive such as fibre optic. That being said I do wonder how this would compare to fibre optical wiring. Which speeds would be better, which line could handle more users and possibly which one would be more likely to appear in the near future in a cost effective manner.I think the majority of people here know that fibre optic cabling in countries such as Japan and Korea are only able to do so because of the high density populations of each indvidual county. So this does seem highly unlikely that the US would go down this road, unless it was on a "per city" basis such as New York or Los Angeles. Perhaps if this was the case, in a few years... cities could end up being connected after offering fibre for a time to recoup the money that was originally spent on infrastructure and so forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 some countries already use IPv6 for the public, which is what the internet2 is based on. it's no where near the speeds mentioned here, obviously, but the protocol is perfectly capable of handling it :)Korea, China, Sweden and a few other EU nations come to mind...btw, the internet2 switch in jacksonville, fl is only a few blocks from my house. i'll go take some pics for you guys in a few days if i can find my digi...Sweden :):D, what you mean... I know no change in internet/speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 some countries already use IPv6 for the public, which is what the internet2 is based on. it's no where near the speeds mentioned here, obviously, but the protocol is perfectly capable of handling it :)Korea, China, Sweden and a few other EU nations come to mind...btw, the internet2 switch in jacksonville, fl is only a few blocks from my house. i'll go take some pics for you guys in a few days if i can find my digi...Sweden :bong::D, what you mean... I know no change in internet/speed?Liar!! :)My buddy lives in Malmo and he's been on 100MB Download / 10MB Upload for the last 8 months at least. Kicks my butt whenever we play online haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Ahh you meant 100mbit fiber optic broadband... that have been around very long now so I didn't knew what you meant :P It's only if you live in the city and not like me... lives 30km from Malmo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsane Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Interesting article. It doesn't say if this is based on the current DSL wiring, which I'm assuming it is... or something more expensive such as fibre optic. That being said I do wonder how this would compare to fibre optical wiring. Which speeds would be better, which line could handle more users and possibly which one would be more likely to appear in the near future in a cost effective manner.it's fiber optic, they just use a brighter light or something :blink:http://www.internet2.edu/network/dc/@Anteus - it's a small network atm, but my old PRQ server was hooked up to it for various reasons :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 My buddy lives in Malmo and he's been on 100MB Download / 10MB Upload for the last 8 months at least. Kicks my butt whenever we play online haha.hmmm a 1000 gb of crap one could download in 24 hours on newsgroups hmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt_Gundam510 Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 i still don't have brad band in my area they wont put it in for some reason, i posted one about Wal-Mart thinking about getting into the ISP market in the world news section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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