Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting; 4-7 December - 2006

I was in Chicago for the last week to attend the 2006 fall member meeting. Beautifull place and a beautifull meeting with lots of orchestration and events. The weather added to the flavour - it was 6 inches of snow and -15 deg Celsius. Great..!!



Amongst other things, Internet2 celebrated the 10 years of existance. In 1996, the higher education research and education community came together around the idea of transforming advanced networking in this country. The program in Chicago offered few sessions that highlighted innovative uses of advanced networking and technical sessions on the development and evolution of high-performance network infrastructures, especially the recently announced new Internet2 Network.

Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its over 300 members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies.


Internet2 Brings along 208 universities together to share resources over a 10 Gbps network connection across USA – with sharing, collaboration and virtual groups working on Scientific and Research problems. Today it has 208 US universities; 66 corporate members, many affiliate members, international partners and aiming towards a new Internet2 backbone network; Middleware, Security Measurement etc.

Commonly this is known as National Research and Education Networks (NREN). Internet2 also seeks global relationships with many countries. Many other countries have also their own NRENs and Interent2 is collaborating and partly spearheading the efforts globally..