Internet-Based Education
Internet 2
- Private consortium of universities
- 100 times greater speed
- gigaPoPs (Gigabit per
second Points of Presence)
- US NSF funding for connection to vBNS
- very high performance Backbone Network
Service (vBNS)
- 77 Universities connected - Mar '98
- vBNS part of US Next Generation Internet (NGI)
- Research applications, like original Internet
