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Internet2 In 10years?

by Steve Gibson, May 11, 2001 12:58pm PDT
Related Topics – Nerdy News, MPAA

An interesting piece on Internet2 Ty Stallard pointed the way to I thought may prove for some good discussion. What is generally referred to as the "next-generation" for the internet isnt just a concept but is in place right now. Over 180 universities and medical centers are connected and using it right now.

Take a movie like "The Matrix," the 1999 sci-fi thriller ... When they tried the exercise over Internet2, the movie downloaded in about 30 seconds. [...] "This will come into our homes," he promises. "Existing cable and even the fastest form of DSL will hook up very well to Internet2." But when? Van Houweling won't set a date. "Look how fast the original Internet took off. There's no reason to think that this won't be implemented even faster. I will say that 10 years from now, the Internet world will be unrecognizable to us today"
So that's great and all and we will have this wonderful bandwidth floating around, but how are they gonna get it to our homes? Oh yeah and that example about downloading The Matrix in 30 seconds is probably a big part of why the MPAA is antsy about things.


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    By: magila x
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    of course your absolutly not going to be able to download anywhere near that fast when/if we get the privlage of using the "internet2" backbones. This all pretty much pointless hype, these people did the trasfer with a direct connection to the backbones, and I bet thoes what, terabit/sec+ backbones arn't being used all that much at the moment. Once this shit hits that fan known as the comercial market, it all gona fall down to much more normal speeds. You honestly think ISPs are gona give you anything even close to the speed they're talking about? You realize most cable modems are perfectly capable of 30+ Mb/s, and yet there you are thinking you're lucky getting 5 Mb/s. At least for us, the general consumer, internet2 isn't gona change things much, ISPs are still gona act as giant bottlenecks and cap us at 1/10th the speed we could be getting so they can screw businesses into paying 5x what the line actualy costs.
    May 11, 2001 4:19pm PDT