Internet 2

From what I understand (which to be honest, isn't that much), Internet 2 is a non-profit, "member-led community" that provides a faster Internet with more network capacity. Rutgers is a member of Internet 2, which from what I understand, means we (as students) benefit from this. After what seemed like an eternity of trying to translate the website, I did a search on this and found an interesting article on www.slate.com. It helped my understanding (I think) of the community. Alexander Russo, the author of the article said:

"Internet2 was never designed to replace the Internet most of us are using now. It's more like a beach or a restaurant—great when not too many people know about it, frustrating when everybody and his mother starts to show up. Internet2's promoters like to compare it to early research networks that fostered the creation of canonical apps like the World Wide Web and e-mail. So, even if you never use Internet2 to download movies at hyperspeed, you still might benefit from the research. Let's just hope they let us use e-mail2."