Cisco Building Internet 2 with Educators and Government Leaders
Gore Praises Internet 2 Networking Advances; Cisco Pledge Exceeds $1 Million
SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 9, 1997 - Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced it is the initial Corporate Partner in the nationwide Internet 2 project. This project joins the university community, government and industry with the combined goal of accelerating the next stage of networking and Internet development.
Internet 2, in close partnership with the federal government's "Next Generation Internet" initiative, will work with many leading universities to facilitate and coordinate networking development, deployment, operation and technology transfer. As the first Internet 2 Corporate Partner and leading provider of networking for today's Internet, Cisco intends to contribute goods and services worth more than $1 million during the lifetime of the project.
"I am pleased to see that major high tech companies are partnering with our leading research universities to develop the Next Generation Internet," said United States Vice President Al Gore. "This will help create the foundation for the networks and networked applications of the 21st century."
The Internet 2 project (http://www.internet2.edu), announced in October 1996, has grown from 34 U.S. research universities to more than 100. Cisco's pledge supports the collaborative effort by these universities to build a next-generation Internet with advanced network services. Networked applications including distance learning, videoconferencing and network voice integration will be better served by numerous new network points of presence (POPs) capable of transmitting gigabits (billions of bits) of information per second. Internet 2 participants also plan to broaden their research and development expenditures to help create the resulting GigaPOPs. As a result, both educators and government researchers will benefit from developing advanced, network-based applications and network services for higher-speed service.
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