April 14, 2008 in Business

Tech tidbit: The origins of Internet2

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Internet2

The next-generation Internet, also called Internet2, came out of discussions among university researchers in the United States to find faster and more reliable ways to transmit large files, outside the existing Internet system.

In 1995 the National Science Foundation, with a consortium of schools, began discussing that idea, first calling it vBNS — for very-high-performance backbone network service.

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