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09-01-2006 11:43 AM |
Internet2
Internet2 Inks Deal to Create Optical Network
Representatives of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Internet2 and the U.S. Energy Department's high-speed Internet network, ESnet, signed an agreement Thursday afternoon to create a superfast, nationwide optical Internet network for scientists that they hope will be online by mid-2007.
The network, to be called ESnet4, will allow two lines of communication at about 10 gigabits a second each, or about 10,000 times the speed of home broadband.
Funded by the energy department, the network will connect 100,000 scientists at more than 30 national labs and more than 18,000 researchers at other government agencies, private industry and universities, including researchers at supercomputing centers and particle accelerators. It will allow scientists around the world to share huge data sets in seconds.
Signing the agreement at the Michigan Information Technology Center in Ann Arbor were Douglas Van Houweling, chief executive officer of Internet2, and Bill Johnston, senior scientist at California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and project manager of ESnet. U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, attended the signing.
Internet2, a public-private consortium to promote advanced Internet capabilities, was founded in Ann Arbor in 1996.
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