WAN World: Network Opens Up Host of Resources for Students in Lancaster County, PA
December 22, 2007

[Janet] Dubble is instructional technology coordinator for Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, which on Monday landed a $400,000 state grant to implement a WAN for schools in Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin counties.

The network will give students, teachers and administrators access to resources that have never been available before, Dubble said.

...

Beginning in January, the program also will give districts access to Internet2, a faster, noncommercial version of the Web that includes only educational, government and research sites.

Read more: Lancaster Online

UH Hosts International Internet Conference Jan. 20-25
December 20, 2007

The University of Hawaii will host a international conference on Internet technologies Jan. 20-25.

The "Techs in Paradise" conference will bring together more than 300 of the world's leading Internet engineers and architects from North America and Asia.

The conference is organized by the Internet2 research and education consortium and the Asian-Pacific Advanced Network, its regional counterpart.

Read more: The Honolulu Advertiser

New Milestone for 3.4 Gbps Internet2
December 20, 2007

The Internet2 Commercial Peering (CP) service has hit another important milestone, with participants across the country seeing more than 50% of their commodity Internet traffic needs being met by the CP service.

By providing a direct peering to major ISPs and content hosting companies over a virtual private network within the Internet2 network, the CP service continues to expand the number of private and public peering connections, now to over 70,000 commodity Internet routes.

Read more: myadsl.co.za News

Results from the SC07 Challenges: Analytics, Bandwidth, Cluster and Storage
December 5, 2007

Every year competitors in the Supercomputing Challenges thrash it out in a match of fastest, cleverest and best.

The winners of November's SC07 Challenges are no different. Find out who walked away with the blue ribbons...

Read more: International Science Grid This Week

Dynamics of Information Flow: Abdul Kalam
December 3, 2007

...

The world is moving towards internet2 applications. Internet2 applications require advanced networks. That is, these applications will not run across commercial Internet connections. Internet2 applications require enhanced networking functionality-such as high bandwidth, low latency (delay), or multicast-not available on our commercial Internet connections. Internet2 is about everything we do in higher education. Therefore, we encourage and support applications development in all disciplines from the sciences through arts and humanities. Whether you're in the classroom, the laboratory, the library, or the dorm, you should be able to access Internet applications that provide benefit. This will ultimately provide equitable access to the entire education system beyond just the lectures and the lecturers. Today the emerging Web 2.0 provides "Network as platform" for computing, allowing users to run software applications entirely through a browser and users can own the data on a Web 2.0 site and exercise control over that data. This stands in sharp contrast to traditional websites which limit visitors to viewing and whose content can only be modified by the site's owner.

Read more: IndiaInfoline.com

National Constitution Center Explores Religious Expression in Schools During National Student Outreach Program, The Exchange
December 3, 2007

The National Constitution Center, with the generous support of the Annenberg Foundation, will present the second installment of The Exchange: A Marketplace of Student Ideas, hosted by MTV News Correspondent SuChin Pak, on Thursday, December 6, 2007 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST in the Center's Kirby Auditorium. Students and teachers from schools across the nation will deliberate and evaluate the timely topic of student religious expression. Participating schools will use the National Constitution Center's cutting-edge Internet2 videoconference technology provided by MAGPI Power Networking at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, for the first time, the program can also be viewed live on the Internet.

Read more: EARTHtimes.org

Early Internet Pioneers Meeting This Week to Celebrate NSFNET: "The Partnership that Changed the World"
November 29, 2007

Event will mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the modern Internet.

Many of the early researchers and scientists responsible for the development of the Internet as we know it today will come together in Northern Virginia this week. These Internet pioneers will take part in an event that marks the 20th anniversary of the initiative to upgrade NSFNET, a set of projects and networking activities that became the direct predecessor of today's Internet.

At the celebratory event, which takes place November 29-30 in Arlington, Va., participants will discuss NSFNET's history, celebrate its contributions, and consider the major impact the Internet has had on science, education, research and commerce.

Sponsors of the event include Advanced Network & Services, Inc., Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper Networks and the National Science Foundation, with organizational support from Merit Network and Internet2.

Read more: National Science Foundation

Verizon tests 100Gbps Network
November 20, 2007

Verizon took its 100Gbps optical network out for a test spin last week by transmitting a live video feed for over 312 miles from Tampa to Miami.

The transmission, which was conducted over preexisting infrastructure that had been built to carry 10Gbps services, marked the first time that Verizon had conducted a field trial of a 100G network. The company used Alcatel-Lucent's 1625 LambdaXtreme Transport, a next-generation 10Gbps/40Gbps core DWDM system, to conduct the test. The test was notable because it was conducted over a single 100Gbps wavelength, rather than through 10 separate 10Gbps wavelengths.

Verizon says that it eventually hopes to deploy its 100G network capabilities commercially to meet the increased bandwidth demands of such applications as online video and VoIP as well as such enterprise applications as video conferencing.

Read more: NetworkWorld

Internet2 Congratulates FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program Grant Awardees
November 20, 2007

Internet2 applauds the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) and Chairman Martin's action in announcing the grant recipients of its new Rural Health Care Pilot Program (RHCPP) which seeks to catalyze the formation of a ubiquitous advanced healthcare network that will serve the national interest by improving citizens' access to first class healthcare services, resources and research.

The grants, awarded to 42 states and 3 U.S. territories, provide funding to help forward-thinking public and non-profit health care providers establish 69 state and regional broadband networks dedicated to health care services as well as enable these networks to connect to nationwide advanced research and education networks like Internet2.

Read more: Internet2 News

Internet2 Accepting Applications for IDEA Awards
November 19, 2007

Internet2 is accepting submissions for the 2008 round of the Internet2 IDEA Awards - for existing or proposed applications that increase the impact of next-generation networks around the world.

...

Deadline for submissions is January 7, 2008. Winners will be announced at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting in late April 2008. For additional information, submissions guidelines and online application, click on Internet2.edu/idea.

Read more: MITechNews.com

Team led by IU wins Supercomputing Bandwidth Competition
November 16, 2007

A team led by Indiana University, with partners from the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Rochester Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, was awarded first place in an international competition for leading-edge, high-bandwidth computing applications. The award was presented Thursday at SC07, the world's largest international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, being held this week in Reno, Nevada.

Read more: Indiana University News Room

Infinera CTO Drew Perkins Elected to Internet2 Council
November 15, 2007

Infinera (Nasdaq:INFN) Chief Technology Officer Drew Perkins has been elected to the Internet2 Research Advisory Council. As a member of the Council, Mr. Perkins will play a key role in helping the Internet2 community plan its strategic direction to meet the needs of the research and academic community.

Read more: CNN Money

ESnet, Internet2 Complete Coast-to-Coast Next-Generation Network
November 15, 2007

Two of the nation's leading research networks - the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 - announced today that they have completed five interconnected rings, each consisting of one or more 10-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) paths, that form a coast-to-coast network that is the backbone of DOE's next-generation scientific network.

Called ESnet4, the new network built by this partnership is a highly reliable, high capacity nationwide network that will greatly enhance the capabilities of scientists at national laboratories and universities across the country. The long-term ESnet-Internet2 partnership, initially announced in August 2006, brings together two advanced networks which have a combined 30 years of experience in providing service to thousands of researchers around the world. The network is managed by ESnet and operated across Internet2's backbone infrastructure.

Read more: Internet2 News

Internet2, GÉANT2, and ESnet Demonstrate Phoebus at SC07
November 14, 2007

Internet2, GÉANT2, and ESnet Demonstrate Phoebus at SC07 to Showcase Seamless Set up of Dynamic Circuits

Performance Protocol Provides Transparent Access to Dynamic Lightpaths to Facilitate Broader Use and Adoption of New Network Services

Internet2, GÉANT2, and ESnet today announced at SC07, the annual international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, a major demonstration of the Phoebus performance framework which allows applications to seamlessly set up dynamic lightpaths regardless of the user's edge network access method. In doing so, Phoebus provides a bridge to enable a broader segment of users to take advantage of the performance and reliability of optical circuit networks such as the Internet2 Dynamic Circuit (DC) Network, ESnet Science Data Network (SDN) and the GÉANT2 pan-European research network.

Read more: Internet2 News

Internet2 Demonstrates Interoperability of Multiple Dynamic Circuit Platforms at SC07
November 13, 2007

Internet2 Demonstrates Interoperability of Multiple Dynamic Circuit Platforms at SC07

Interoperability to Facilitate Broad Adoption of Dynamic Circuit Platforms Worldwide

This week at SC07, the annual international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, Internet2, together with several partners and collaborators, will demonstrate for the first time interoperability of its revolutionary Dynamic Circuit (DC) Network with multiple regional and international networks as well as an equipment provider. The demonstration marks a milestone in facilitating the widespread adoption of dynamic circuit networking by showcasing how networks with different equipment, network technology, and allocation models can dynamically provision dedicated circuits across domains.

Read more: Internet2 News

Industry and Research Heavyweights Collaborate to Demonstrate Data Transport Capability at SC07
November 12, 2007

High-Performance Computing and Communications Organizations Pool Capabilities to Support Vast Bandwidth Needs for Particle Physics and Other Applications

A group of research and industry technology leaders today announced two demonstrations at the SC07 Conference in Reno, Nev. to show leading-edge capabilities designed for the high-bandwidth needs of the research community worldwide. The demonstrations involve the transport of large volumes of data at rates significantly in excess of 10 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) by infrastructure built to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), over a 40 Gbps network and the use of Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) User to Network Interface (UNI) signaling between routers and optical systems to provision bandwidth on demand.

Read more: Internet2 News

Megaconference 9 Streaming Video Available
November 9, 2007

For those who were unable to attend Megaconference IX, streaming video of the event is available here (you may have to go to the last page to find Megaconference 9).

Read more: Megaconference

Internet2-National LambdaRail Merger Terminated
November 8, 2007

The Board of Directors of the National LambdaRail initiative failed to approve a merger proposal with Internet2, ending several months of discussions between the firms. The NLR said in a statement that it was unable to approve the merger due to its organizational structure and mission. One issue has been the transfer of NLR's assets to a merged organizations and the role of donating members in decision making.

Read more: Converge! Network Digest

Super High-speed Internet Coming to Allegheny County Schools
November 7, 2007

The Allegheny Intermediate Unit has received bids from five different companies to construct a $10 million Regional Wide Area Network that would connect nearly all of Allegheny's 42 school districts on an "ultra high-speed" computer network.

...

The new network will give schools about 100 times more broadband capacity than they have now, allowing for virtual field trips, debates and instructional video collections that are not possible under the current system.

The network would also give county schools access to Internet2, a private, high-speed network for education and health organizations.

Read more: Post-Gazette NOW News

URI Builds New Library for Undersea Research
November 6, 2007

The University of Rhode Island will begin construction on a new library on the Narragansett Bay Campus in the coming weeks. The new Pell Marine Science Library will serve as headquarters to oceanography research projects conducted throughout the world.

...

Carothers said the building will feature offices, classrooms, an Inter Space Center and a cafeteria. The Inter Space Center will use state-of-the-art technology to communicate between marine operations around the world. A satellite system and an internet server called Internet2 will enable this communication.

Read more: The Good 5-cent Cigar

Binghamton University to Participate in Megaconference 9!
November 2, 2007

The Computer Center at Binghamton University would like to invite you to join us on November 8th, 2007, for an all-day event of global proportions: Megaconference IX. This is a videoconferencing event that brings people together from around the world and features a variety of presentations and activities of interest to a wide range of fields and disciplines. All are encouraged to attend and take part!

As the website for Megaconference explains, "[e]ach year, the Megaconference occurs as a result of a tremendous amount of volunteer effort and good will, with the goal of connecting people together everywhere on Earth where someone chooses to participate, in order to further the use of videoconferencing in education and research and to advance the state of the art in videoconferencing technology."

The event goes from 7:30 AM to 11:30 PM and will be held in Studio B (Room B62) in the basement of the Lecture Hall Building. Come to the whole thing, or just come to the events that interest you! For the program, click here.

Read more: Megaconference

OSTN Selects Video Furnace to Deliver Student Channel to Global Audience
November 1, 2007

OSTN (http://www.ostn.tv/), the leading provider of student-produced entertainment, educational and news IPTV content and services, today announced selection of Video Furnace (www.videofurnace.com) as its new video distribution system provider.

...

"OSTN content is available to more than 4,500 colleges and universities across the globe. Any university or research institution connected to Internet2 or other multicast-enabled network can join OSTN and receive its content," said Arun Kumar, OSTN President and CEO.

Read more: marketwire.com

Verizon Business Joins Internet2
October 31, 2007

Internet2 has today announced that Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. The company plans to engage the consortium in several innovative ways, including collaboration with the Internet2 community on projects involving advanced optical networking as well as in important areas of next-generation content delivery and network security.

Read more: Internet2 News

Internet2 IDEA Awards to Recognize Revolutionary Uses of Advanced Networking
October 25, 2007

Internet2 and Level 3 Communications, Inc. today announced a new category for the Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Awards program. The new "Wave of the Future" category was unveiled earlier this month at Internet2's fall member meeting to recognize innovators who are developing and deploying advanced applications that specifically require or make use of a dedicated optical circuit with capacities up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps).

Open to existing or proposed applications, the Internet2 IDEA awards are designed to showcase projects that apply the latest in advanced networking capabilities to enable transformational progress in research, to enhance teaching and learning, and to potentially increase the impact of next-generation networks around the world.

Read more: CNNMoney.com

Internet Tax Ban Extended
October 17, 2007

The House has approved a 4-year extension of a ban on state and local taxes on Internet access. The tax ban was first passed in 1998 and was to expire November 1st. But the House voted 405-2 to keep the tax ban going.

Read more: LEX18.com

Online courses Increase in Popularity
October 16, 2007

Over the past decade, online education has been growing throughout higher education.

Nationwide in the fall of 2005, nearly 3.2 million students at degree-granting institutions were taking at least one course with at least 80 percent of its content delivered online, according to the most recent available survey by the Sloan Consortium, which helps schools improve online education.

Read more: Post-Gazette.com

University Of Nebraska Deploys Ekinops 360 Platform For High-Capacity Optical Network
October 15, 2007

The University of Nebraska (UNL) has installed DWDM equipment from Ekinops, a leading provider of optical transport and DWDM solutions, that massively increases connectivity to its campus in Lincoln and is critical to the university's participation in an international physics research project, Ekinops announced recently.

The new optical network took part in a demonstration on Tuesday at the opening session of the Internet2 Member Meeting in San Diego. The demonstration showed how an 8 Gigabits per second stream from the UNL physics lab, transported by the Ekinops equipment to the Internet2 network, was dynamically switched across the Internet2 backbone.

Read more: Fiber Optics Online

Internet2 and Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa Form Health Sciences Partnership
October 11, 2007

Internet2 today announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), the national research and education networking organization of Brazil, to facilitate international telehealth and telemedicine collaborations. The MOU builds on the organizations' existing long-term networking partnership that was established in 2000. The new MOU was made official today at a ceremony held in conjunction with the annual Internet2 Fall Member Meeting in San Diego, California.

Read more: Internet2 News

New Nationwide Internet2 Network Complete
October 9, 2007

Today at its annual Fall Member Meeting, Internet2 announced the completion of its new nationwide network infrastructure. With an initial capacity of 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) nationwide and revolutionary bandwidth-on-demand capabilities, the new Internet2 infrastructure provides researchers and educators the potential to transform disciplines across the board from science, to telemedicine, to network research, to the performing arts.

Read more: Internet2 News

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Campaign Under Way
October 2, 2007

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force have teamed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to declare October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. National Cyber Security Awareness Month is a national campaign to raise awareness of and increase computer security at colleges and universities.

Read more: University of Delaware

BELNET Selects Juniper T1600 and M120 to Accelerate Network Growth
October 1, 2007

BELNET, Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, and its partner Telindus, part of the Belgacom Group, today announced that BELNET plans to build its next-generation research network based upon Juniper Networks T1600 Core Routers and M-series Multiservice Edge Routers. The high-performance Juniper infrastructure, to be installed and maintained by Telindus, will enable BELNET to cost-effectively deliver a range of high-speed, flexible IP-based services to universities, research centers and government agencies across Belgium.

...

BELNET provides high-quality, secure Internet access via CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) and a direct connection with worldwide research networks, including the American Internet2 and the European Géant. A pioneer of the internet, BELNET was founded in 1993 on the initiative of the Federal Research Policy. The network continues to further the cause of research, training and scientific co-operation.

Read more: Business Wire

ESnet4 Rolls Out New Cross-Country 10 Gbps Network
September 27, 2007

The first national ring of ESnet4 went live over the summer, marking a key accomplishment for a long-term plan to build the next-generation science network for researchers working in DOE's national labs, universities and industry. The network ring, the first of several to be built, runs across the country with northern and southern routes before meeting up at various locations along the east and west coast. ESnet4 will enable researchers to send and obtain raw data and research results at a significantly faster rate and with greater reliability. The infrastructure underlying ESnet4 is a joint project between ESnet and Internet2.

Read more: HPCwire

SCT BOCES to get Internet grant
September 26, 2007

The Schuyler-Chemung-Tioga BOCES Educational Opportunities Network will receive a $149,732 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission as part of a $306,564 endowment for the network.

The grants will provide Internet2 services to five county school systems through the local SCT-BOCES. Approximately 35,000 students in 21 school districts will benefit from the enhanced educational services. The funds will be allocated to pay for training, line services and other costs associated with installing the new internet.

Read more: Star-Gazette.com

Internet2 Commercial Peering Service Expands
September 24, 2007

Internet2 is pleased to announce that its Commercial Peering (CP) Service has expanded significantly adding new routes and new connection points to enhance network performance, cost savings and collaboration opportunities for participating members.

Read more: Internet2 News

District looking into pilot Internet program
September 14, 2007

Students at Westfield Washington Schools will soon be able to connect online with other educational institutions, including colleges and universities around the country. Westfield is pursuing a pilot program that would include K-12 school districts on Internet2.

Read more: IndyStar.com

No end in sight as RIAA keeps up legal onslaught onslaught
September 12, 2007

The RIAA has pushed yet another onslaught of lawsuits against students over the last six months, with over 3,000 pre-litigation letters sent out to college campuses across the country.

...

The creation of the Internet2 network - a high-powered research network operated by 206 universities nationwide - has made file-sharing even easier for college students, and has thus become another tool for the RIAA to efficiently monitor.

Read more: The Daily Pennsylvanian

IPv6 ice breaker:
Lockheed Martin to Begin Transition, Blazing a Path for Government Customers to Follow
September 10, 2007

Lockheed Martin is transitioning segments of its Global Vision Network to IPv6 to help develop a road map for government customers in their transition.
...

...[D]uring the next few months, the company will be making the transition at 10 sites in California, Florida, Maryland, Texas, Virginia and the United Kingdom. The goal will be to validate best practices, learn the lessons needed to transition the rest of the network and provide those lessons to federal customers, [Frank] Cuccias [director of Lockheed Martin's IPv6 Center of Excellence] said.

Read more: GCN

Dell, SURA Partner on Grid Computing Initiative
September 10, 2007

The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and Dell announced an agreement to expand SURAgrid, a high-performance grid computing infrastructure for the research and education community throughout the Southeastern United States.

Under the three-year agreement, more than 60 SURAgrid member universities will be able to purchase a Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) specially configured for use on the SURAgrid. Dell and SURA worked together to configure the Linux-based clusters running on Dell PowerEdge servers. The clusters will be built at Dell's HPCC Merge Center, where the servers will be racked, cabled, shrink-wrapped and shipped to the customer, ready for installation, simplifying the process of getting them up and running.

Read more: GRID Today

Proposed Merger of NLR and Internet2
September 1, 2007

The Network Planning Team (NPT) was established in March 2007 in support of a proposed merger of Internet2 and National LambdaRail, Inc.(NLR).

Read more: Advogato

IPv6 Passes First Test on Applications
August 27, 2007

In the first large-scale test of basic enterprise networking with IPv6, applications using the next-generation IP in real-world conditions passed muster. Until recently, most of the attention on IPv6 has concentrated on the network backbone, but this summer's tests at the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) focused instead on applications.

Read more: GCN

Access to NIH Online Research Becomes Easier for Universities
August 27, 2007

The National Institutes of Health has struck an agreement with the InCommon Identity Management Federation to allow university research and academic users to gain access to approved NIH online systems and services with their existing institutional authentication accounts.

The federation eliminates the need for researchers, students, and educators to maintain multiple, password-protected accounts for individual users who require access to online materials.

(A steering committee of university representatives oversees the federation, which is operated and managed by Internet2, a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium.)

Read more: FCW

First Nationwide U.S. Higher Education Identity Management Federation
Hits Major Participant Milestone
August 15, 2007

InCommon(R), the first nationwide U.S. identity management federation for higher education, today announced that its community has continued to expand, adding six major content and service providers and 18 universities to its growing online trust community. In doing so, InCommon now boasts 60 participating organizations.

Among the new participants are several content and service providers to the research and education community including: EBSCO Publishing, JSTOR, NAS Recruitment Communications, RefWorks, StudentsOnly, and Thomson Learning, Inc. InCommon university participants can now partner with these organizations to provide easier, identity-shielded access to comprehensive scholarly materials in support of their research and academic missions. New universities in the community include: Clemson University, Duke University, Florida State University, Indiana University, The Johns Hopkins University, Lafayette College, Medical University of South Carolina, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Stony Brook University, Sweet Briar College, Texas A & M University, University of California - Davis, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Richmond, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Read more: Internet2 News

Internet2 spotlights student creativity
July 30, 2007

The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) and Internet2 partnered to produce a three-day student film festival at Cleveland State University. Students directed and produced films, documentaries, and television videos, which were sent to educational institutions around the world.

Read more: eSchool News

Internet2 Commercial Peering Service Enters Production
July 17, 2007

Internet2 today announced it is offering a production Commercial Peering (CP) Service to members on an opt-in basis at no additional charge through their existing connections to the Internet2 Network. By leveraging settlement-free connections between the Internet2 Network, and major content providers and Internet Service Providers, the service enables members to cost-effectively meet their community's commercial Internet needs.

Read more: Internet2 News

ESnet and Internet2 Extend Networking Partnership
July 16, 2007

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2-two of the nation's leading networking organizations dedicated to research-today announced a multi-year extension to their agreement to deploy and operate the next generation of the ESnet backbone network.

Called ESnet4, the new network created through this partnership is being built as a highly reliable, high capacity nationwide network that will greatly enhance the capabilities of scientists at national laboratories and universities across the country. This long-term partnership, initially announced in August 2006, brings together two advanced networks which have a combined 30 years of experience in providing service to thousands of researchers around the world. The network will be managed by ESnet and operated across Internet2's backbone infrastructure.

Read more: Internet2 News

Researchers Smoke Internet Land Speed Record
April 25, 2007

The University of Tokyo has once again set two Land Speed Records in a competition hosted by networking consortium Internet2. The team was able to achieve a throughput of 9.08 Gbps over a 30,000 km-long IPv6 network path. The feat demonstrates IPv6's reliability and practicality in supporting ultra-high bandwidth applications, Internet2 said.

Read more: TechNewsWorld

The best kind of Internet comes at a price
May 8, 2006

Imagine an Internet without porn. Then, picture that Internet as having a connection speed 1,000 times faster than the one you use. On this Internet, you would have real-time access to cameras in Hawaii's aquariums ... without pop-ups. Seconds away would be high-resolution images of crumbling maps from the Library of Congress. The world's greatest living thinkers would talk to you through television-quality videoconferencing. This isn't a fantasy. It's Internet2 - the other Internet.

Read more: phillyBurbs.com

NSF Middleware Initiative Release 9 Provides Tools for Research and Education
May 3, 2006

Providing new event diagnostic, privilege management, and portal-building tools, the ninth release of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI-R9) makes further progress in addressing the challenge of collaborating online in a shared cyberinfrastructure environment. NMI-R9 is available to the public for downloading under open-source licenses at http://www.nsf-middleware.org.

Read full press release: NSF Middleware Initiative website

Internet2 aims to boost capacity
April 28, 2006

By fall 2007, researchers, academics, and even K-12 users of the ultra high-speed Internet2 network will have the ability to conduct even more eye-popping applications for education and research, thanks to an upgrade in the works that reportedly could boost capacity of the network by as much as 80 times its current bandwidth.

Read more: eSchool News Online website

Ultrahigh-speed network to be speedier
April 26, 2006

By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost capacity by as much as 80-fold to enable researchers to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks.

Read more: MSNBC website

Super storage, mega videoconferences win Internet2 advanced apps awards
April 25, 2006

Internet2 is dishing out four awards this week to teams that have created advanced network applications that are making a difference in research and teaching.

Read more: Network World website

Internet2 To Netcast Highlights of Its Annual Spring Member Meeting
April 20, 2006

Internet2 will hold its annual Spring Member Meeting from April 24-26, 2006 in Arlington, VA. The meeting brings together hundreds of leaders within the Internet2 research and education community to address key advances in high performance networking and other leading-edge Internet technologies. Internet2 will netcast live several select sessions from its member meeting including its second general session with a keynote address from Dr. Daniel Atkins, Director Designate of the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure. If you missed the live streams during the netcast, you can view the archived sessions on the schedule page.

For schedule and additional details: Supercomputing Online website

Draft Telecom Legislation Falls Short of Preserving Internet Opennes
March 28, 2006

The U.S. House of Representatives' staff yesterday released the latest version of legislation dubbed, "The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006",which aims to rewrite U.S. telecommunications laws. According to EDUCAUSE and Internet2, while the bill takes some positive steps in helping to encourage the expansion of broadband networks to consumer homes as well as to open the door to the creation of municipal broadband networks, the bill completely lacks critical language that would maintain and support the vital principle of network neutrality. In doing so, the bill falls far short of serving the needs of the country's citizens and instead provides cable and phone companies with the authority they seek for the creation of discriminatory networks.

Read the full press release: Educause website

March 2006 Survey - Internet2
March 24, 2006

More than 46,000 K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries, and museums in 35 U.S. states are now connected to the Internet2 backbone network according to the results of a bi-annual survey, released today. The survey highlights the success of the nationwide Internet2 K20 Initiative in bringing together Internet2 member institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to extend new technologies, applications, and advanced content to all educational sectors across the country.

Read more: University of Main website

Alaska State Education Network Connects to Internet2's Next-Generation Network2
March 23, 2006

Children across the state of Alaska will soon have access to one of the fastest networks in the world. Representatives from Internet2 and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) today announced that Alaska's statewide education network, AK20, will become the 35th state education network to connect directly to Internet2's nationwide high performance network. Leveraging this connection, AK20 will participate in the Internet2 K20 Initiative which will give Alaska's students access to cutting-edge, Internet-based educational opportunities not available today on the commercial Internet.

Original link (expired): Yahoo Finance website

New Internet2 Land Speed Record Set
March 8, 2006

Internet2 today announced that an international team set a new Internet2 Land Speed Records (I2-LSR) in both the IPv6 and IPv4 single and multi-stream categories. This record marks the fourth time a University of Tokyo-lead team has achieved an Internet2 Land Speed record. As an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, Internet2 LSR awards represent the fastest rate at which data is transferred multiplied by the distance traveled.

Read more: i2-news

Internet2, ERNET and C-DAC Create International Partnership
February 28, 2006

Internet2 today announced a partnership with ERNET and C-DAC, the research and education networking organizations in India. The partnership was made official at a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony held February 18, 2006 at the "Moving India into the Global Community through Advanced Networking: Science, Education and the Knowledge Economy" workshop in Mumbai, India.

Read more: i2-news

Ruckus Joins Internet2 to Develop Next-Generation Content Distribution Technology
February 23, 2006

Internet2 today announced that Ruckus has joined the consortium as a corporate member and will collaborate with the Internet2 community to develop and test ground-breaking content distribution and authentication technologies to enable fast and legal intra and inter-campus sharing of multimedia materials. The membership will also allow the company to provide students at its 208 member universities blazing fast access to Ruckus' innovative multimedia service that enables schools to legally access and share a massive digital library of classroom- related multimedia.

Read more: PRNewsWire website

Meriton Networks Becomes Internet2 Corporate Partner
February 6, 2006

Internet2 today announced it is partnering with Meriton Networks, a leading-provider of optical networking technologies, to develop and deploy leading-edge network services and capabilities that will contribute to the creation of next-generation Internet architectures and enable the most advanced network applications.

Read full press release: Meriton Networks website

Yale University joins the OPEN Student Television Network
October 13, 2005

Yale students, staff and faculty will now be able to securely access student television from other participating universities, as well as broadcast network programming.  The OPEN Student Television Network offers television content over Internet2 including dicounted programs from major networks like NBC and FOX.  The OSTN is also a forum for students to create content and express views relevant to the academic communities involved.

Read more: OSTN.TV website

Live TV-Quality Video of Lost City Expedition Internet2 Multicast
Jul 23-August 1, 2005

Live video from the underwater expedition to the Lost City hydrothermal fields will be multicast over Internet2 networks. The multicast address is 233.55.245.254 port 4000. Show times each day are 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm EST.

Read more: More Information

Sights & Sounds: the newsletter for the Internet2 Commons
Summer, 2005

This quarterly publication provides information about what's happening at the Internet2 Commons, and information and activities of its members.

Read more: Link to Newsletter

Illegal download of music/video on I2 network in schools
April 14, 2005

Lawsuits were filed against a number of college students in U.S who illegally downloaded music and videos on their school's Internet2 network.

Read more: Full Story

Internet2 Selects Force10 for National Deployment
March 15, 2005

Internet2 selected the Force10 E-Series family of switch/routers for its nationwide Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI), which will serve as a model for tomorrow's scalable, high performance network architectures.

Read more: Full Story

Internet2 picks up 10 Gig Ethernet gear
February 15, 2005

Internet2 has decided to use Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches from Force10 Networks to build its Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure, which is intended as a model for high-performance networks. HOPI, as the name implies, is supposed to blend packet and optical networks and draw out the best of both technologies. It will support researchers whose goal is to learn from the experience and apply it to next-generation networks.

Internet2 and New World Symphony
Performance and Master Class Production Workshop

January 24-26, 2005

Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosted a hands-on audio/video production workshop on 24-26 January 2005. The workshop emphasized real-time experience connecting with remote sites over Internet2, setting up incoming and outgoing audio, creating a multi-camera shoot, placing lights and projectors and operating codecs.

Read more: Full Story

Research Channel transmits full bandwidth HD over high-speed network
August 05, 2004

ResearchChannel, an industry leader in Internet distribution of quality content, demonstrated the first successful transmission of full bandwidth High Definition (HD) 1080i video between two desktop computers using high speed networking technology at the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) conference in Cairns, Australia today. Conference attendees were treated to three HD video clips streamed at a sustained data rate of 1.5 gigabits per second.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

Statewide Highspeed Internet nearly complete
July 01, 2004

he nation’s most extensive high-speed fiber optic network dedicated to higher education and research is nearly complete in Cleveland. Equipment for the Third Frontier Network (TFN) was installed last week at Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve University campuses, and the remaining Cleveland area campuses will soon follow. The network is being built by OARnet, the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s networking division.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

Identity and Access Management in Higher Education: Extending the reach with Middleware
June 30, 2004

How can middleware tools help higher education institutions strengthen and standardize identity and access management? Extending the Reach (ETR)--a partnership of the NMI-EDIT Consortium of Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) with several statewide university systems and regional networks--will explore campus middleware delivery and support models that demonstrate new approaches to electronic resource sharing and link to the emerging national and global trust fabrics.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

Third Frontier Network Assists Homeland Security through real-time, interactive training
June 07, 2004

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) flagship, the Ronald H. Brown, left the port of Woods Hole, MA last week to begin what will be a 17-day expedition to explore the New England Seamount Chain. From May 8th through May 25th, the expedition, supported by the NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration, will journey out to the “Mountains in the Sea” that lie to the southeast of Georges Bank in the Atlantic Ocean. As the dive team explores the peaks and valleys of these underwater mountains, students worldwide will be able to witness it all firsthand thanks to VBrick Systems, Inc. (www.VBrick.com). VBrick Systems, the premier provider of digital video solutions, has provided their innovative video appliances to expand the reach of the expedition so that live exploration footage is available as it happens to educators and students worldwide.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

NSF Middleware Initiative proves key for grid-based collaborations in
diverse disciplines
May 26, 2004

The study of Alzheimer's disease and the analysis of particle collisions may not appear to have much in common, but behind the scenes, middleware being developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping groups of researchers in neuroscience, physics and other fields to apply the power of grid-based computational resources.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

VBrick Systems’ Award-Winning Networked Video Appliances Bring Video of
Deep-Sea Research to Life
May 21, 2004

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) flagship, the Ronald H. Brown, left the port of Woods Hole, MA last week to begin what will be a 17-day expedition to explore the New England Seamount Chain. From May 8th through May 25th, the expedition, supported by the NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration, will journey out to the “Mountains in the Sea” that lie to the southeast of Georges Bank in the Atlantic Ocean. As the dive team explores the peaks and valleys of these underwater mountains, students worldwide will be able to witness it all firsthand thanks to VBrick Systems, Inc. (www.VBrick.com). VBrick Systems, the premier provider of digital video solutions, has provided their innovative video appliances to expand the reach of the expedition so that live exploration footage is available as it happens to educators and students worldwide.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

I2 President and Members to Participate in Broadband Summit
April 14, 2004

Douglas Van Houweling, Internet2 president and CEO, will be a featured keynote speaker at the Broadband Summit 2004 at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center on April 20. He will speak about the future and potential of next generation broadband to transform work, education and entertainment. A number of Internet2 members will be participating in this event.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 news)

Internet2 Opposes Wiretap Law Extension
April 13, 2004

Internet2® has joined a coalition of higher education and library associations to file a comment with the FCC protesting a joint attempt by the Department of Justice, FBI, and DEA to bring all access to the Internet within the scope of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The current CALEA legislation gives law enforcement agencies access to communications traffic under specific legal conditions and constraints. Some problems the FCC has been asked to consider are:

• The inhibition of innovation
• The compromise of privacy
• The costliness of the revisions at a time which budgets are already under large stress

Read more: Full Story (from I2 News), complete comment filed

Cross-border Networking Agreement Signed
April 6, 2004

ORION and Merit Network, the Ontario and Michigan Research and Education (R&E) networks, have signed an historic agreement to interconnect across the Canada/U.S. border, collaborate on advanced networking technologies, and facilitate research in the Great Lakes region.

Read more: Full Story (PDF)

National Internet2 Day 2004 - Archives Available
March 25, 2004

National Internet2 Day was a videoconference broadcast from a number of I2 member universities. It discussed many aspects of Internet2 and showcased the advantages that I2 has to offer. Though it is now over, archives and other presentation materials are available at the official site.

Read more: archives, event homepage

Megaconference Jr.
March 24, 2004

The Internet2 Commons Videoconferencing Service via H.323 is providing the power behind the first international Megaconference Jr. to be held on May 6, 2004. Megaconference Jr., born out of the Megaconference founded by Bob Dixon at Internet2 member Ohio State University, is designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other's learning in real-time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 News), official Megaconference Jr. website, I2 Commons H.323 service

I2 Performance Measurement Interoperability Being Tackled
March 17, 2004

The Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System (E2E piPEs), in close cooperation with DataTAG and GÉANT in Europe and CANARIE in Canada, is tackling critical performance measurement issues that face the greater Internet community.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 News)

Abilene Network Upgraded
February 4, 2004

The Abilene network - the backbone of Internet2 - has been upgraded to OC-192. This means the network now has 10 Gbps of bandwidth, roughly quadruple what it was previously. Abilene supports both IPv4 and IPv6.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 News) [text copy]

Security Guide for Higher Education Released
January 28, 2004

"The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force today announced the release of the first-ever Effective Security Practices Guide for the higher education community, providing practical approaches to preventing, detecting, and responding to IT security problems in a wide range of higher education environments." "Designed for colleges and universities, the guide balances the need for security with an open, collaborative networking environment and low-cost solutions." The guide can be found here.

Read more: Full Story (from I2 News)

Computer Science Department Invites Speaker
via Videoconferencing Over Internet2

March 15, 2005

Binghamton's Computer Science Department has started using videoconferencing over Internet2 to invite speakers from other universities to participate in their Computer Science Colloquium Series.On March 15 2002, Dr. Henry Neeman from Oklahoma Univeristy's Supercomputing Center for Education and Research (OSCER) gave a seminar titled "Supercomputing in Plain English: Teaching High Performance Computing to Scientists and Engineers".The talk was well attended, by both faculty and students from many disciplines.