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TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview - IBM Redbooks

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1.2.4 Internet2<br />

coordination. R<strong>IP</strong>E was formed in 1989 to provide a uniform <strong>IP</strong> service to users<br />

throughout Europe. Today, the largest Internet backbones run at OC48 (2.4<br />

Gbps) or OC192 (9.6 Gbps).<br />

The success of the Internet <strong>and</strong> the subsequent frequent congestion of the<br />

NSFNET <strong>and</strong> its commercial replacement led to some frustration among the<br />

research community who had previously enjoyed exclusive use of the Internet.<br />

The university community, therefore, together with government <strong>and</strong> industry<br />

partners, <strong>and</strong> encouraged by the funding component of the Next Generation<br />

Internet (NGI) initiative, have formed the Internet2 project.<br />

The NGI initiative is a federal research program that is developing advanced<br />

networking technologies, introducing revolutionary applications that require<br />

advanced networking technologies <strong>and</strong> demonstrating these technological<br />

capabilities on high-speed testbeds.<br />

Mission<br />

The Internet2 mission is to facilitate <strong>and</strong> coordinate the development, operation,<br />

<strong>and</strong> technology transfer of advanced, network-based applications <strong>and</strong> network<br />

services to further U.S. leadership in research <strong>and</strong> higher education <strong>and</strong><br />

accelerate the availability of new services <strong>and</strong> applications on the Internet.<br />

Internet2 has the following goals:<br />

► Demonstrate new applications that can dramatically enhance researchers’<br />

ability to collaborate <strong>and</strong> conduct experiments.<br />

► Demonstrate enhanced delivery of education <strong>and</strong> other services (for instance,<br />

health care, environmental monitoring, <strong>and</strong> so on) by taking advantage of<br />

virtual proximity created by an advanced communications infrastructure.<br />

► Support development <strong>and</strong> adoption of advanced applications by providing<br />

middleware <strong>and</strong> development tools.<br />

► Facilitate development, deployment, <strong>and</strong> operation of an affordable<br />

communications infrastructure, capable of supporting differentiated quality of<br />

service (QoS) based on application requirements of the research <strong>and</strong><br />

education community.<br />

► Promote experimentation with the next generation of communications<br />

technologies.<br />

► Coordinate adoption of agreed working st<strong>and</strong>ards <strong>and</strong> common practices<br />

among participating institutions to ensure end-to-end quality of service <strong>and</strong><br />

interoperability.<br />

18 <strong>TCP</strong>/<strong>IP</strong> <strong>Tutorial</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Overview</strong>

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