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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Internet II is coming... (fwd)
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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.
> 


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