Internet 2

Internet 2 is a not-for-profit United States computer network consortium which started as a project for a faster internet based on optical fiber backbones supporting higher broad bands. It worked under the codename Albilene, named after a 19th century railway from Kansas. The original goal of the internet 2 was the transmission of data at speeds of 2.48 Gbits/s and higher. Since 2004 this default speed has increased to 10 Gbit/s. It's noteworthy that the internet 2, unlike the conventional internet, wasn't designed with militaristic ends in mind. Internet 2 has connected since 1998 about 115 colleges and research institutes. Starting in 2004, it has grown to serve as communication means for over 200 national institutions. INternet2 also works as a sandbox for the development and deployment of features to be later on released for the internet. These technologies include large-scale network performance measurement and management tools, secure identity and access management tools and capabilities such as scheduling high-bandwidth, high-performance circuits.