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Has anyone else heard the rumors of an internet two? Supposedly, there will be a new type of internet available to the public in the coming years. According to the rumors I've heard, it will make different domain extensions available (like .com). I've also heard that downloads could be as high as one gig/s. While some of this seems far-fetched, we are not that far away from this technology.
There's nothing obviously different or magical about Alan Crosswell's computer. The dirty, beige machine sits idle in a nondescript office at Columbia University, where Crosswell directs the school's computer network. Then he lets it loose. In just 2 minutes and 41 seconds, it pulls down more than 500 megabytes of Linux code from servers at Duke University, a task that would normally take hours. Next, Crosswell shows me a violin master class held via videoconference. The DVD-like resolution creates an immediacy that you don't get with choppy streaming video, and the better-than-CD audio allows both the teacher in Canada and the student in New York to hear every nuance.
How are these incredible feats of data transmission possible? Because Columbia has access to the other, better Internet?Internet2.
Yes, there is another Internet. The term \"Internet\" simply refers to a network of computers. The one that most of us use is Internet1, or the \"commodity Internet.\" Internet2 was created nearly a decade ago by academics at research universities as a noncommercial prototype?something like what the Internet was back when just a few university researchers were logged on to ARPANET.
If they realeasd it to the public now it would be hectic because there possibly be problems so suggest they are makeing tweaks and making sure it runs right before putting it out. -psychoarmykid
This would also signal the new era of pirated software, especially with 1Gig/sec transfer rates.
Oh, man. Wouldn't that be great? Downloading almost-better-than DVD quality movies in less than one minute. That would be great, but awlful for the movie industry.
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