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2.4.3 Next Generation Internet
The next generation Internet (NGI) initiative [17] is a U.S. program designed to
fund and coordinate federal agencies and academia to design and build the next
generation of Internet services. Although the program was first proposed in
1996, it is still unclear how the NGI initiative will complement other initiatives,
such as the NSF’s very-high-speed backbone network service (vNBS) and I2.
The research and development needed to address this is beyond the scope
of any single institution, company, or industry. The NGI initiative, with its
broad agenda and ability to involve government, research institutions, and the
business sector, is a timely program that will address these challenges. The goal
of the NGI initiative is to conduct research and development in advanced networking
technologies, to demonstrate those technologies in testbeds that are
100 to 1,000 times faster than today’s Internet, and to develop and demonstrate
on those testbeds revolutionary applications that meet important national needs
and those that cannot be achieved with today’s Internet.
The NGI initiative is expected to create the foundation for the networks of
the twenty-first century, setting the stage for networks that are much more powerful
and versatile than the current Internet. The NGI will also stimulate the
introduction of new multimedia services in our homes, schools, and businesses
as the technologies and architectures designed and developed as part of the NGI
are incorporated into products and services that are subsequently made available
to the general public.
The NGI initiative is part of a highly successful ongoing multiagency
research and development program. It is a key component of the research and
development activities of the Large Scale Networking Working Group of the
Subcommittee on Computing, Information, and Communications.
The NGI initiative has three goals:
1. To advance research, development, and experimentation in the next
generation of networking technologies to add functionality and
improve performance.
2. To develop a NGI testbed, emphasizing end-to-end performance, to
support networking research and demonstrate new networking technologies.
This testbed will connect at least 100 NGI sites—universities,
federal research institutions, and other research partners—at speeds 100
times faster than today’s Internet and will connect on the order of 10
sites at speeds 1,000 times faster than the current Internet.
3. To develop and demonstrate revolutionary applications that meet
important national goals and missions and that rely on the advances
made in the first two goals. These applications are not possible on
today’s Internet.