IBM Is The First Corporation Approved For New High-Speed Network; Will Collaborate with Academic Community on Advanced Internet Applications.SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1999--IBM today announced it is the first corporate partner approved to connect to the new high-speed network of the nation's leading research universities. The Internet2 network, Abilene, is being developed by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Washington, DC, www.ucaid.edu) The non-profit consortium founded in 1997 that began the development of Internet2. It started with 34 universities in late 1996 and grew so large in one year (more than 100 universities and 20 ) and is the most advanced research and education network in the U.S. Through Abilene, IBM Research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. will collaborate with Internet2 research institutions on the development of advanced Internet applications that will enable IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) customers to exploit the full potential of e-business. These technologies will include new middleware to manage traffic over high-speed networks and bandwidth-hungry applications that will integrate video, voice, data and transactions. "Working with the Internet2 community, IBM will build powerful new applications that are feasible only on a backbone with such enormous capacity as Abilene," said John Patrick
John Patrick (May 17, 1905 – November 7, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter. , vice president, Internet Technology for IBM. "IBM will be able to lead its customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate to the commercial Internet." To date, IBM has committed more than $5.6 million in support for higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions participating in the Internet2 project. IBM has been an active partner in the Internet2 Distributed Storage Storing data in multiple computers or in computers that are geographically dispersed. This was an early term for storage that evolved into SANs and storage virtualization. See SAN and storage virtualization. Infrastructure Initiative and the Internet2 Digital Video Network, projects that are defining the requirements of advanced networks and applications. The Internet2 project is one of several initiatives worldwide in which IBM is involved to help shape the future of the Internet for e-business. Others include the Global Internet Project, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research This article is about using the Internet for research; for the field of research about the Internet, see Internet studies. Internet research is the practice of using the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, for research. at Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. , and the development of new advanced Internet competence centers in Europe and Asia. UCAID, in partnership with Qwest Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and Indiana University, is deploying Abilene as the most advanced and far-reaching research and education network in the United States. A primary goal of Abilene is to support Internet2's development of broadband applications, engineering and network management tools for research and education. Operations are scheduled to begin in January 1999, with more than 70 Internet2 institutions planning to connect by the end of 1999. For more information about Abilene, please visit http://www.internet2.edu/abilene. More information about Internet2 can be found at http://www.internet2.edu. About IBM IBM is the world's leading provider of information technology products and services and an Internet2 corporate partner. IBM was one of the founding members of NSFnet, which served as the Internet's primary backbone from 1987-1995. IBM creates, develops, and manufactures the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. IBM is leveraging this experience in helping create technologies for the next generation Internet See Internet2. . For more information about IBM's Internet2 initiatives, please visit http://www.ibm.com/internet2. (1) Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines. |
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