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Actually, the aspect of the NGI which targets increased connection rates by a factor of 100 uses Internet 2's vBNS backbone...
Internet 2 is focused on providing a separate academic Internet for universities. The NGI is looking at new technologies that can improve the use-and amount of bandwidth, said Don M. Heath, president and CEO of the Internet Society--a non-governmental organization concerned with the legal, ethical, social and political evolution of the Internet...
Either way, Heath predicted that the Internet 2 and any further versions developed by universities would eventually be folded into the NGI...
...think once the [NGI] has the capability to deliver what people want in the form of bandwidth, and availability, and responsiveness, and performance, etc., then the need [for a separate academic Internet] will go away," he said...
...both the University and Internet users in general Internet 2 and the NGI will mean vast improvements in service offered on society's newest medium...