Tag: INTERNET2

The internet is based on a decentralized model. If one server goes down, the system reroutes traffic and nobody notices. Internet2, on the other hand, is a much smaller system right now. And the high-speed system that could be the future of the internet is much more vulnerable to network outages. This week a homeless man in Boston knocked out all service between Boston and New York by tossing a ...

A team of researchers led by the University of Tokyo have managed to send files over Internet2 at super-fast speeds. During the annual Internet2 Spring meeting this week managed to send to send data along a 30,000 kilometer path at a rate of 9.08Gbps, which equals 272,400 Terabit-meters per second. Just in case you were wondering why you've never seen your video downloads enter the TB-m/S range, ...

Have you ever thought about what you'd build in place of the Internet if you could start over from scratch? No TCP/IP requirements, no backwards compatibility, just a full-on global network designed from the ground up to be global. A Stanford University research program, dubbed "Clean Slate", is dreaming of exactly that, and they're asking for help from students and Post-Doctorate researchers. ...