Projects
Promise IS Plenty
By Erick Von Schweber
February 8, 1998
Comparison
Chart:
The Internet, Internet2, and Next Generation Internet
|
Feature |
Internet |
Internet2 (I2) |
Next Generation Internet (NGI) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Funding |
Private and government |
Private Consortium (UCAID) |
Federal Government |
|
Access |
Unlimited |
I2 members - mostly universities, many networking vendors |
Federal agencies, universities, and their partners |
|
Implementation began |
1960’s as ARPAnet |
Late 1996 |
Early 1998 |
|
Length of program |
n/a |
2-3 years |
3 years plus possible extension |
|
End-to-end bandwidth |
14.4kbps-4Mbps |
10Mbps-100Mbps |
100Mbps, 1,000Mbps |
|
Purpose |
Public and private electronic communication |
Support university research on and operation of advanced network applications |
Support development and operation of advanced Federal agency applications and research on network technology |
|
Application categories |
Distributed file system |
Distributed and collaborative computing, multimedia |
Distributed and collaborative computing, multimedia |
|
Application examples |
WWW and email |
MPEG2 video conferencing, digital libraries, distance learning |
Distributed data mining, teleoperation of equipment, remote medicine |
|
Primary components |
Backbone infrastructure and ISPs |
Campus infrastructure upgrades, Gigapops, and vBNS |
Two research networks, network research program, and applications connectivity |
|
Primary protocol |
IPv4 |
IPv6 with QoS, multicast, and policy routing |
IPv6 with QoS and multicast plus experimental protocols |
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Updated Feb 8, 1998