[5085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikos Mouat)
Tue Oct 8 16:32:37 1996
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nikos Mouat <nikm@ixa.net>
To: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, yakov@cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <199610081941.PAA23769@new6.Reston.mci.net>
not all universities qualify for the vbns.
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Scott Huddle wrote:
> Isn't this the same mission as the vBNS?
>
> -scott
>
> > From owner-nanog@merit.edu Tue Oct 8 13:20 EDT 1996
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Internet II is coming...
> > Date: Tue, 08 Oct 96 10:10:52 PDT
> > From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
> > Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > Content-Type> : > text>
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> > 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.
> >
>
