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Date: 1999-02-14

Internet2 geht ans Netz


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Die unter dem Code "Abilene" laufende, erste Tranche des
akademischen Hochgeschwindigkeits/projekts Internet2 steht
kurz vor ihrem Launch. Auf über 20.000 Kilometer Glasfaser,
hauptsächlich von Qwest, werken Cisco-Router mit Nortels
Netzwerk/technologien zusammen, um die Terabytes der
Universitäten quer durch die USA zu pumpen. Es ist die
akademische Welt, in der die kommerzielle ihre Probe hält.

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James Niccolai
...
The network, known as Abilene, will act as an important test-
bed for developing a new generation of Internet applications
and services.

Abilene has been in the making for 10 months, and is
comprised of 13,000 miles of fiber-optic cable looped
between New York and Seattle.

Abilene is a key component of Internet2, an initiative led by
more than 130 universities working with the government and
the IT industry to develop new network services and
applications not possible over today's congested public
Internet.

End users won't be able to log on to Abilene as they do with
commercial networks; Abilene's primary purpose is to serve
the academic research community.
....

"The Internet today has one service to offer: best-effort
delivery of IP packets," said Stephen Wolff, executive director
of advanced Internet initiatives at Cisco, one of Abilene's
three corporate sponsors.
....
"We basically want to provide the Internet with the kind of
reliability people are accustomed to seeing in their telephone
network," echoed Brian McFadden, vice president and
general manager of the Carrier Packet Solutions group at
Nortel Networks.

Cisco, Nortel and Qwest have donated millions of dollars in
equipment, infrastructure and other resources to support the
project.
....
At an official launch event planned for Feb. 24 in Washington,
D.C., Abilene participants will demonstrate applications
including 30-frame-per-second broadcast-quality video and
terabyte-size data library transfers.
....
Abilene is one of two major backbones in the Internet2
project, an initiative overseen by the University Corporation for
Advanced Internet Development. The other network is the
very high-performance Backbone Network Service, provided
by the National Science Foundation and MCI WorldCom that
is also for use by universities and research institutions.

Abilene initially will link about 70 universities with a 2.4G
bit/sec network running over SONET equipment provided by
Nortel. Eventually, it will rein in all 140-plus member
universities and increase capacity to 9.6G bit/sec, officials
said. Qwest donated 10,000 miles of its fiber-optic network
for the venture, while Cisco is providing its advanced 12,000
series gigabit switch routers, Cisco's Wolff said.
....

full text
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1999/0212internet2.html

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