what is the internet2?
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Internet2 or UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) is a non-profit consortium which develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies, mostly for high-speed data transfer. "Internet2" is a registered trademark. It is led by 207 universities in the United States and partners from the networking (Cisco Systems), publishing (Prous Science) and technology industries (such as Comcast, Intel, Sun Microsystems). Some of the technologies it has developed include IPv6, IP multicasting and quality of service.\n\nInternet2 (and its members) created the Abilene Network and frequently collaborates with the National LambdaRail (NLR) project. In fact, Internet2 and National LambdaRail are planning to merge sometime soon, which likely means somewhere in the 2006-2009 timeline. More information about discussions of the future Internet2/NLR merger is available at the official Internet2 website [1]. Another document summarizing the merger discussions as of early July 2005 is available here.\n[edit]\n\nInternet2 relationship to the Abilene Network\n\nIn light of a recent series of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against university students attending several of the major participants in Abilene, there has been a recent trend in the media to report on a network called "Internet2." Some sources go so far as to suggest Internet2 is a network wholly separate from the Internet. This is misleading since Internet2 is in fact a consortium and not a computer network. It is possible that many news sources have adopted the term Internet2 because it seems like a logical name for a next-generation Internet backbone. Articles that reference Internet2 as a network are in fact referring to the previously mentioned network backbone known as the Abilene Network. This forms a high-speed backbone by deploying many of the technologies developed by Internet2. Abilene, although a private network used for education and research, is not entirely an isolated network, since its members usually provide alternative access to many of their resources through the public Internet. Abilene is not technically part of the Internet since it does not peer with the public Internet networks.\n\nThe Abilene project is supported greatly by Qwest Communications through the use of Qwest's optical fiber networks. Internet2's Abilene transport agreement with Qwest is due to expire somewhere around October of 2007. [2]\n\nThe second generation of the Internet, developed by a consortium of more than 200 universities, private companies and the U.S. government. It was not developed for commercial use or to replace the Internet, but is the reincarnation of it, intended primarily for research. Whereas the Internet was first designed to exchange text, Internet2 is designed for full-motion video and 3D animations.\n\nOriginally named UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development), Internet2 spawned the high-speed Abilene backbone. See Abilene, UCAID and vBNS.
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The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet.\nThe Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet.
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Internet2 Speed Record\nOn 14 April 2004 a team of engineers from Sprint Corporation in San Jose, California, USA, and the Swedish National Research and Education Network successfully transmitted 838.86 gigabytes of data over a distance of 16,343 km (10,155 miles) in 1,588 seconds. The resulting record value of 69,073 terabit metres-per-second was achieved over public networks using IPv4. The start and end points of the transmission were San Jose, California, USA, and the University of Luleå , Luleå , Sweden.\nhttp://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=58445\n\n\nI think you may looking for this result\n\n Networking\nSeptember 2, 2004\nScientists Set Internet2 Speed Record\nBy Susan Kuchinskas\n\nScientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) set a new land-speed record for Internet2, a second-generation network serving universities and research institutes.\n\nThe team, which included folks from AMD (Quote, Chart), Cisco (Quote, Chart), Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second (define) between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles.\n\nScientists are racing to move gigantic amounts of data by 2007, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will switch on. This huge underground particle accelerator will produce some 15 petabytes (define) of data a year, which will be stored and analyzed on a global grid of computer centers.\n\nHigh-energy physicists are excited about the LHC because they hope it will allow them to find the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that they believe creates mass.\n\n"Physicists are trying to fill in the blank spaces in our model of high energy physics," said Jim Gray a Microsoft Research engineer who helped set Wednesday's record.\n\nBut this $10 billion collider will be of little use if scientists around the world can't access the data.\n\nResearchers aren't the only ones excited about blazing data speeds. This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds. There are uses in astronomy, bioinformatics, global climate modeling and seismology, as well as commercial applications from entertainment to oil and gas exploration.\n\nInternet2 is fast -- Abilene, a U.S. cross-country backbone network, blasts data at 10Gbps. But transoceanic networking is another story. There are hardware and software issues to overcome, Gray said.\n\nFor example, one limiting factor is that the fastest available interface for PCs is the PCIX64 Bus Isolation Extender, which can only handle 7.5Gbps.\n\nThe land-speed test is part of an ongoing R&D program to create high-speed global networks as the foundation of next-generation, data-intensive grids with a goal of transferring data at 1Gbps.\n\nThe performance also is the first record to break the 100-petabit meter per second mark. One petabit is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits (define). That may seem like an almost inconceivably large number, but Gray said storing petabits of data is a fact of life for many large corporations. He said Microsoft has about 5 petabits of data, and he estimates Google and Yahoo store that much, as well.\n\n"If you have a million customers and they each have a gigabyte of storage, that's a petabit," he said.\n\nThe technology used in setting this record included S2io's Xframe 10 GbE server adapter, Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Newisys 4300 servers using AMD Opteron processors, Itanium servers and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.\nhttp://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3403161
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The electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
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internet (Lower case i) \nAny time you connect 2 or more networks together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or inter-state. \n\n\nInternet (Upper case I) \nThe vast collection of inter-connected networks that are connected using the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's. \nThe Internet connects tens of thousands of independent networks into a vast global internet and is probably the largest Wide Area Network in the world.\n\nARPANet -- (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) \nThe precursor to the Internet. Developed in the late 60's and early 70's by the US Department of Defense as an experiment in wide-area-networking to connect together computers that were each running different system so that people at one location could use computing resources from another location.\n\nTCP/IP -- (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) \nThis is the suite of protocols that defines the Internet. Originally designed for the UNIX operating system, TCP/IP software is now included with every major kind of computer operating system. To be truly on the Internet, your computer must have TCP/IP software.\n\nUnix \nA computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). Unix is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet. \nApple computers' Macintosh operating system, as of version 10 ("Mac OS X"), is based on Unix.
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the internet is a virtual representation of our real life, i look at it like a forum. We interact in many ways on the internet by doing stuff like business, chatting, surfing, emailing, and stuff like that which is similar to what we do in real life. In real life we open a shop for business just like how we setup a website and sell stuff, we chat online just like how we have conversations in real life, we surf the net for anything that might interest us just like how we travel new places discovering new things in real life, emailing online just like how we have conversations with our neighbours and friends or colleagues at work place, get the point?\n\nThe internet is a vital tool of computers that have evolved just like how humans have migrated from caves to have a urban living in cities. Computers are a machine created by humans with a vital tool called the internet to perform tasks that make our daily lives more interesting. It's another spectrum of us being humans. Computers will be integral in our lives no matter how much some might dislike it.\n\nIm doing business online and i like it, check out the websites below and you too might start liking computers and the internet =)
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You have the internet!  What more do you need?
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All over the internet
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A web packet is a very small packet of information sent through the internet. All data you send and recieve is transferred through many thousands of packets a second.
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I wonder what was past before Internet?
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The nature of the routing of the internet,
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The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly accessible worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP). It is made up of thousands of smaller commercial, academic, domestic, and government networks. It carries various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nContrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and URLs, and is accessible using the Internet.
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The TV followed by the internet.
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Internet service is the portal or gateway that allows a person to have access to the entire worldwide internet which is the connection of computers and computer systems all over the world.
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The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail , online chat , file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web .
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He's basically right.\n\nInternet is what you know. WWW and such.\n\nWhen you connect your PC's together into a network, that's an Intranet.\n\nI believe an Extranet is connecting two Intranets together by way of the Internet.