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According to Scott O. Bradner, senior technical consultant for Harvard's University Information Systems, Internet 2 is a "platform for developing advanced, free, competitive applications which might demand a high bandwidth...or which make use of quality of service controls" that the commercial Internet cannot provide...
...Bandwidth is the rate at which data is transferred across the Internet. It is analogous to the flow of water through a pipe. The more sophisticated the "pipe," the greater the speed...
...since the heyday of devo (or, perhaps, MC Hammer) have the worlds of nerds and rock so converged. As rockers embrace the Net with fan pages and Web-simulcast concerts, the two cultures have intermingled. Can you tell which is the band and which is the provider of bandwidth? --By Joel Stein...
...YORK: Want more bandwidth? You'll be able to get it soon, if you happen to have a spare $50 million. The federal government is financing university research into a new Internet technology called the gigapop, that will connect at a screaming speed ? 1 million times faster than a 28.8 modem. But considering the cost of the traffic-sorting gigapops, only the giant telcos such as MCI will be able to afford them when they arrive, in approximately 2002. Small-time service providers will most likely be left to wither on the slower-connection vine: One analyst predicts the gigapop...
...link promises to make impulse shopping on the Web a breeze, and frees up the home computer for other users. Since only about 40 percent of U.S. households have personal computers, but just about everybody has one or more television sets, adding the TV audience and cable?s bandwidth to the Net has powerful implications, expecially for Net commerce. Granting Microsoft?s interactive future a tentative blessing, Wall Street nudged the stock up 1 1/6 points to close at 125 3/8 and pushed Comcast up by 2 15/16 points...