The name "Internet2" is often interpreted as the next version of a public Internet. However, Internet2 is an academia-exclusive technology that will not be made available to private users. The network not only provides a huge bandwidth to transfer data, but is also considered as playground for scientists to solve problems of the common Internet and develop new technologies - such optimized versions of TCP/IP - to improve its performance.
Like being next door to the Indy500 but not having enough to buy a ticket...The Internet2 consortium regularly publishes new records in data transmission. The current "Internet2 Land Speed Record" stands at 208,800 Tb-meters/s. 585 GB of data were transferred across 30,000 km (about 18,600 miles) at an average rate of 6.96 Gb/s.
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