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Internet2 used for file-swapping
News A new file-trading network has sprung up on Internet2, the university network that offers researchers and students a way to communicate at blazing speeds while avoiding the ordinary Internet's data traffic jams.
[April 30, 2004, 8:55]
Internet2 sets new speed record
News Researchers have set a data transmission record over the Internet2's high-speed backbone. The record, announced on Tuesday at the Spring 2004 Internet2 member meeting in Virginia, was for transmitting data over nearly 11,000 kilometres at an...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
Internet2 gets boost from Qwest
News If Pinchas Zuckerman, the music director at the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, hears a not-so-perfect note from his violin student Wu Jie, Zuckerman can demonstrate a better way to hold the bow even though Wu is watching from New York...
[October 5, 2001, 10:20]
Entertainment industry joins Internet2
News The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will join the Internet2 network coalition, Internet2 officials announced Friday. The RIAA's decision to join the coalition comes several...
[September 12, 2005, 10:45]
First transatlantic handshake shows off Internet2
News Two scientists on opposite sides of the Atlantic exchanged a physical handshake on Tuesday. Using touch-relaying haptic technology, researchers in University College London shook hands with teammates in the Touch Lab at the Massachusetts Institute...
[October 29, 2002, 14:58]
Real bandwidth: Internet2 goes live
News Part of a planned demonstration earlier this week in Washington will include a segment where an offsite surgeon aides colleagues in a live operation, according to the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, sponsor of the Indiana...
[February 26, 1999, 10:10]
US Report: New Internet2 projects aim for multimedia content
News Internet2 -- the project charged with building the kind of high-bandwidth, multimedia networks currently confined to science fiction -- announced two new initiatives for accelerating the availability of high-performance access and interactive...
[September 29, 1998, 11:47]
US Report: Gore takes the wraps off 'Internet2' initiative
News The network links 100 universities and a handful of other schools, and was created with $500M (£297.2M) in funding from universities and high-tech giants including Cisco, 3Com and MCI Internet 2 can transmit all 30 volumes of the Encyclopaedia...
[April 15, 1998, 8:47]
Internet2 used for file-swapping
Talkback I think this is great. Nullsoft Waste is the new wave of filesharing security.
[April 30, 2004, 15:11]
Tuesday
Blog Tuesday 29/10/2002 Today is a Why Do I Bother day. I know this instinctively, from the moment I stumble to the laptop, coffee in hand, and check the breakfast emails. Halfway through the task, the error messages cluster over the screen -- my...
[November 1, 2002, 17:42]
Sprint and Sweden claim Internet speed record
News The world record for the transfer of data across the Internet has reportedly been broken by telecoms operator Sprint and the Swedish National Research and Education Network (SUNET). The two organisations announced late last week that they had...
[June 21, 2004, 14:05]
Implementing Shibboleth at a UK National Academic Data Centre
White Papers The UK education sector is embarking upon the adoption of Internet2's Shibboleth software for federated access management. This paper recounts the early experiences of a large academic data centre in implementing support for Shibboleth across its...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Microsoft releases backup server public beta
Talkback can you tell me why internet 2 will not be available for the public use for 5 years why so long as some american schools already have internet2 will it end up making your broad band more expensive ,.thanyou fiona
[April 14, 2005, 5:52]
Cisco IP+Optical Networking Solution Selected for GrangeNet Project to Build Australia's Largest R&D Network
White Papers Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has been selected as the networking equipment provider for the GrangeNet project, to create Australia's largest Research & Development network.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Hollywood's lead lobbyist steps back from limelight
News Jack Valenti, whose soaring flights of rhetoric have defined Hollywood's voice in Washington, D.C.for two generations, is nearing the end of his post as the film industry's chief lobbyist. With announced plans to step down when a replacement is...
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Open source authentication scheme gets full marks
News Schools should implement an open source authentication system to give parents and pupils secure access to online content, says a government organisation. Becta, the UK government's education IT strategy organisation, is recommending that schools...
[October 3, 2005, 17:05]
New worldwide high-speed network on the rise
News With all they hype surrounding dot-com startups, it's easy to forget that the World Wide Web and the Internet were originally invented by government-funded scientific organisations. Now the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), which...
[January 17, 2001, 8:20]
Nothing neutral about new Net wars
Leader Net neutrality is a simple concept - a carrier should deal with every packet equally, regardless of source or destination. This is unfair, say the carriers, because some content providers use up far more bandwidth than others.
[June 12, 2006, 15:55]
Guinness World Record for Cisco router
News What does networking giant Cisco Systems have in common with Radhakant Bajpai of India, whose longest ear hair measures 5.19 inches at its longest point? They're both world record holders. On Thursday, Cisco announced that Guinness World Records...
[July 2, 2004, 9:05]
Intel sees PlanetLab as Net's future
News The Internet needs to be upgraded with a new layer of abilities that will deal with imminent problems of capacity, security and reliability, Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger said Thursday.
[September 10, 2004, 10:20]
