Read about this last week. It used the Internet2 network.

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by Vinnie
It used the Internet2 network.

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Ok, me confused, what's the Internet2 network? And why the ?

The Internet2 is the next generation Internet. Used to connect Universities and the like. Primarily in the USA.

Hence it will never get rolled out to the general population.

There are actually serveral networks involved in this all over the world - Internet2 Abilene in the US, Géant is the European version, CANARIE in Canada, NII in Japan, and the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN).

There's also a new initiative called GTRN which aims to link all these research networks together, once the technology has matured enough, it will eventually find it's way into the home like the existing internet services

"New Internet Tech 153,000 Times Faster Than Modem" *faints*

"The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)." - Now, that's a bacronym if ever I saw one. I can hear the meeting now... we want to call it FAST, so think of something that fits