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What is Internet2?(Brief Article)

Crain's Detroit Business, July, 2002 by Dietderich, Andrew

Internet2 is the name of an Ann Arbor-based project that encompasses nearly 200 universities and about 100 businesses developing and deploying advanced Internet applications and technology. The purpose is keep pushing Internet technologies forward. It does this by applying new technologies developed by Internet2 members to its own network, said Doug Van Houweling, president and CEO of the University Corp.

for Advanced Internet Development. The goal is to then migrate the technologies to the regular Internet. It's similar to the way e-mail and the World Wide Web started. ``This really got started because the university and scientific research community found out that the private sector was focused on meeting the needs of consumer and corporate users of...

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