Internet2 Deployment Reaches Major Milestone

An anonymous reader writes "Internet2 today announced that the first East to West Coast span on its new nationwide 100 gigabit per second network has been completed and is providing production IP and circuit services. This deployment marks another major milestone in bringing leading- edge networking resources to the research and education community in the United States."

Your Worst Possible Fear

[Anonymous Coward]

the first East to West Coast span on its new nationwide 100 gigabit per second network has been completed

Uh oh. That's a whole lotta spam!

What's to stop someone like National American University or University of Phoenix from getting access to this and spamming the hell out of me? They already do it with snail mail ...

Where do we stand?

[bogaboga]

Are we still behind countries like Korea and Canada on this front with this development? Let an informed soul clarify.

The Internet2 outside of the US

[mrhammi]

I have looked at the partner sites for the project http://international.internet2.edu/partners/ [internet2.edu] there doesn't seem to be much progress outside of the US. Are there plans for any that anybody is aware of?

So, how will this be segregated?

[jollyreaper]

Will Internet2 always be the academic side, Internet1 remains separate, and they will just be upgraded in sections in the coming years? Will Internet2 always be the faster of the two? Will it serve as the proving ground for technology that later filters down to Internet1?

Re:And it will only be a matter of time...

[owlnation]

Dunno about you, but I was around on the Internet1 before the 'commercial interests' took hold.

IIRC, the rise of spam and commercial interests were pretty much concurrent. But yes, pr0n and and hax0rs were there way way way before the suits got involved.

There's probably a way of charting the rise of spam/commercial interests inversely against the IQ of the average Internet 1 user.

Sadly, however, having ruined Internet 1 for many of us, the commercially interested are already foaming at the mouth in anticipation of Internet 2.

Re:Meaningless

[costing]

Being a CMS researcher I guess you have already heard about http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/ [monalisa.cern.ch] that was especially developed for this purpose (high speed transfer over paths with large RTT). It goes to the maximum possible transfer rate in a matter of seconds and can pipe multiple files through the same channel especially to avoid situations like you describe.