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► Catalyze partnerships with governmental and private sector organizations.
► Encourage transfer of technology from Internet2 to the rest of the Internet.
► Study the impact of new infrastructure, services, and applications on higher
education and the Internet community in general.
Internet2 participants
Internet2 has 180 participating universities across the United States. Affiliate
organizations provide the project with valuable input. All participants in the
Internet2 project are members of the University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development (UCAID).
In most respects, the partnership and funding arrangements for Internet2 will
parallel those of previous joint networking efforts of academia and government,
of which the NSFnet project is a very successful example. The United States
government will participate in Internet2 through the NGI initiative and related
programs.
Internet2 also joins with corporate leaders to create the advanced network
services necessary to meet the requirements of broadband, networked
applications. Industry partners work primarily with campus-based and regional
university teams to provide the services and products needed to implement the
applications developed by the project. Major corporations currently participating
in Internet2 include Alcatel, Cisco Systems, IBM, Nortel Networks, Sprint, and
Sun Microsystems. Additional support for Internet2 comes from collaboration
with non-profit organizations working in research and educational networking.
Affiliate organizations committed to the project include MCNC, Merit, National
Institutes of Health (NIH), and the State University System of Florida.
For more information about Internet2, see their Web page at:
http://www.internet2.edu
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