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Introduction When the Internet began in the 1960s it was used mainly by the government for sharing files and software as well as exchanging electronic mail Zakon There were only a few hosts to a network and there was only a small amount of data flow Now there are millions of people who connect to the Internet every day from all around the globe There is a much larger amount of data flowing across the Internet and it is continually growing each and every day As the amount of data transferring grew so did the number Internet connections Personal computers started off using analog modems and today they are beginning to turn over to broadband connections such as DSL and T-1 lines Internet2 is the next step in the future of the Internet Internet2 promises to be better and faster than the current infrastructure What is Internet2 Internet2 is defined by its website Internet2 is a not-for-profit consortium led by over 200 US universities developing and deploying advanced network applications and technology accelerating the creation of tomorrows Internet With participation by over 60 leading companies Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia industry and government that helped foster todays Internet in its infancy Along with this definition the Internet2 organization has three primary goals 1 To create a leading edge network capability for the national research community 2 To enable revolutionary Internet applications And 3 To ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community Internet2edu The current backbone of the Internet2 system is called Abilene A backbone is defined as a Part of a network that handles the major traffic and provides the primary path for traffic flowing to or from other networks Laudon Laudon 253 Abilene currently supports data transferring of up to ten gigabits per second and has the goal of offering one hundred megabits per second to every desktop connected to the system Right now
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