Internet2 Going Live 88
IronMonkey writes
"For those whose bandwidth cravings can never be satisfied,
Internet2 is finally going live for testing to network 50
universities at 2.4G-bps! All over SONET, of course. The
group who is putting together the Internet2 is planning on
final network speeds of 10G-bps. "
Can someone make my bedroom a node on that thing please?
Bad name? (Score:1)
Anyways, the internet is always evolving, this bandwidth will reach us all eventually.
Flame away if you desire, respond intelligently if you can. If not, cool just my thoughts.
seconded (Score:1)
Unfortunately this is not whats going to happen with Internet2 in the end. The whole thing only exists because of commercial interests.
I think i could deal with 2.4gps (Score:1)
dammnit!! i cant even get cable access where i live. but while 2.4 gps would be nice, correct me if im wrong, it would be worthless due to the speed of my p2's internal bus...
A note about inet2 (Score:1)
I kind of agree, but please learn to spell...
2400bps (Score:1)
It's the quality that counts - not the quantity.
Francis Siefken
IPv6 (Score:1)
My bedroom already is hooked up (Score:1)
gotta have that email you never use... (Score:1)
please (Score:1)
...I just want one chance to prove money cant buy me happiness
A note about inet2 (Score:1)
Hack it (Score:1)
Not 100% true. I've heard from several sources now (fibre installers, phone crews, etc.) that you can "tap" fibre by bending it sufficiently enough to cause some of the light to exit the fibre since your bend is "excessive" and the TIR which the fibre relies on is no longer total. Now mind you this is only for eavesdropping but it is being "tapped."
I2 Rocks (Score:1)
Less than 10ms pings ANYWHERE on it.. =)
Now the NIC card in this computer is the bottleneck..
ChiefArcher
IPV6 & Linux (Score:1)
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UMN's Internet2 site (Score:1)
For all of you who are interested.
Patience (Score:1)
Pamela Anderson Lee (Score:1)
Finally a good reason... (Score:1)
JB
Differentiated service (Score:1)
Has been online for some time now... (Score:1)
Check out: www.internet2.org
Who Cares (Score:1)
Let's get it right this time... (Score:1)
I remember when you could get 400K/sec on a file download from somewhere on the other side of the US. Now thanks to the convenience of U.S. commercial intere$ts clogging everything up with their bloated WWW sites, you can barely reach 30K/sec.
Who Cares (Score:1)
Differentiated service (Score:1)
The *REAL* reason for I2 (Score:1)
Argh...
Hack it - forget it (Score:1)
Glad you pointed it out. :-)
1) It's OC-48, pay attention. OC-3c = 155Mbit. OC-12 = 648Mbit. OC-48 - 2.4Gbit. OC-96 - 10Gbit.
Actually, OC-192 is 10Gbit/s.
We (my company, my development department) can even top that: OC-192/STM-64 over WDM [ericsson.se], which will be 16x (or 32x) 10GBit/s on one fiber. You don't want it at home, your HD'd be full in the wink of an eye.
Hack it - forget it (Score:1)
Glad you pointed it out.
1) It's OC-48, pay attention. OC-3c = 155Mbit. OC-12 = 648Mbit. OC-48 - 2.4Gbit. OC-96 - 10Gbit.
Actually, OC-192 is 10Gbit/s.
We (my company, my development department) can even top that: OC-192/STM-64 over ( [ericsson.se]PDF [ericsson.se]), which will be 16x (or 32x) 10GBit/s on one fiber. You don't want it at home, your HD'd be full in the wink of an eye.
Let's get it right this time... (Score:1)
Hopefully not!
>I remember when you could get 400K/sec on a file download from somewhere on the other side of the US. Now thanks to the convenience of U.S. commercial intere$ts clogging everything up with their bloated WWW sites, you can barely reach 30K/sec.
So you'd prefer to be on your own private Internet, with super high bandwidth to almost nothing? Better to have 30K/sec to what you're looking for, than no access to the sites you want at all. Not to mention that fact that those "bloated WWW sites" take up NO bandwidth unless someone is actually using (i.e. presumably benefiting) from them.
Oh, and another thing--if the Internet2's Quality of Service features work as advertised, then it can be as congested as it wants, but if you're willing to pay a premium for your packets, you'll still get good performance. If not, then you got what you paid for.
Which universities? (Score:1)
Let's get it right this time... (Score:1)
but what about canada? (Score:1)
Abilene and Internet2 (Score:1)
..so? (Score:1)
It is a separate network, physically, though I would guess it shouldn't be hard to connect the Internet network with the Internet2...
There are plenty good reasons to be excited.
Twinkie
Gosh, so bitter! (Score:1)
See anything here? Sure, you may just be an anonymous troll, but research institutions, while spending millions on such crap as quantum mechanics, string theory, holographic imaging, particle accelerators, etc, do end up with usable, cool, noteworthythings... Heck, without the originial arpanet and universities needing a method of communication, where do you think the internet would have started in the first place?
BTW, quantum mechanics -> quantum computing, we hope, holographic imagining -> optical processing and storage, particle accelerators -> even more compact storage mediums than ultra dense hard drives... etc. And the kicker is we don't know how useful a research is until after the fact...
Twinkie
Technical details? (Score:1)
Hack it (Score:1)
PDG--"I don't like the Prozac, the Prozac likes me"
Hack it (Score:1)
PDG--"I don't like the Prozac, the Prozac likes me"
Price check in Aisle 2! (Score:1)
Are the specs open? (Score:1)
If Internet2 is open-spec like its prequel was, however, I don't see that happening.