World Wide Wait

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World Wide Wait

• 1998 2.5 bil. hours spent waiting on downloads.
• Online population doubling yearly
• Movies on demand, 3-D images, MP3s
• Bottlenecks of info. occur at connections onto
  backbones

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Todays Demands

• More capacity, for real video space
• Faster connection speeds, e-commerce
• Affordable alternatives
• Handle exponential growth of users

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Internet 2

• Founded in Oct. 1996
• Devoted to Research Development
• 180 universities and businesses
• Cisco Systems, IBM, AtT,
• UVA, G. Tech., Harvard, Yale

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Next Generation Internet

• Founded Oct.1996
• Advancement of end-to-end networking
  technologies.
• Solely government funded
• NASA, DARPA, NIH, NIST, NSF

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University led Internet 2 and Federally led NGI
are parallel and complementary initiatives based
in the U.S.
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Goals and Applications

• National Security (monitoring information from
  high resolution sensors)
• Health Advances (3-D imaging)
• Environmental Monitoring (virtual reality
  settings for analyses)
• Distance Education (virtual university libraries)

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Shared revolutionary abilities will open the door
for e-commerce efficiency when its made
available.
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Solutions at Hand

• Connecting direct to LAN/Ethernet
• Compression technologies
• (LEOBS) Low Earth Orbital Satellites
• Government Legislation
• Hardware/Software upgrades

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Created ByTom FadoolBrandon Sanders