Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 21:38:27 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet II is coming... (fwd) Message-ID: <199612070238.VAA17811@hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610082026.NAA22504@freefall.freebsd.org> (jmb@freefall.freebsd.org)
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Do you know what became of this? >From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> >Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT) >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] >Content-Type: text >Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG >X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Precedence: bulk > >Yakov Rekhter wrote: >> From owner-nanog@merit.edu Tue Oct 8 10:17:44 1996 >> 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. >> > > >-- >Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG >FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ >PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB > -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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