[80155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Call)
Tue Apr 26 17:06:00 2005
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:05:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504262251160.29505@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> What is "internet2 speed"? As far as I can see Internet2 is a 10G based
> national network. What is so special about that in this day and age?
I think the difference is the average connection speeds of the "end users"
of the network. It's not at all uncommon today for a provider with a 10G+
backbone to have 100Mbs or less average connection speed, whereas I2 end
users are often on campus networks at gig-E or faster.
So the speeds mentioned are the realized speeds in p2p and malware
spreading applications, or at least that is my assumption based on the
original poster's question.
