In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities.

From 1997 to 2001, Lanier was the Chief Scientist of Advanced Network and Services, which contained the Engineering Office of Internet2, and served as the Lead Scientist of the National Tele-immersion Initiative, a coalition of research universities studying advanced applications for Internet2.

The Internet2 community, in partnership with Qwest, built the first Internet2 Network, called Abilene, in 1998 and was a prime investor in the National LambdaRail ( NLR ) project.

The Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications ( IDEA ) award ( not to be confused with IDEA awards ) was first announced by Internet2 in 2006 as a way of recognizing those who create and use advanced network applications at their best.

Abilene Network was a high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community in the late 1990s.

In 2007 the Abilene Network was retired and the upgraded network became known as the " Internet2 Network ".

This is misleading, since, at the time of the Abilene Network, Internet2 was the consortium and not a computer network.

When the transition to the new Level3-based infrastructure was complete, the name Abilene ceased to be used in favor of The Internet2 Network.

The main advantage of i2hub was its utilization of Internet2, which was a special network that connected universities around the world.

The OSTN stream was initially a 1. 6 megabit Windows Media stream, available live 24 / 7 over Internet2 to all member institutions.

The consortium of non-profit organizations, now totaling 28, was originally formed to bring an Internet2 point-of-presence to Rhode Island.

These school libraries provided extended services such as inter-library loan through Southeast Kansas Library System and access to Internet2 and online databases through Kan-ed, a service sponsored by the State of Kansas.

The PCCW foundation has provided sponsorship for local data network service for the Internet2 project initiated by the Joint Universities Computer Center ( JUCC ).

Internet2 is an advanced not-for-profit United States networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government.

* Internet2 Talk: The Development of the Internet, Implications for our Future, by Douglas E Van Houweling PhD, President and CEO of Internet2, Feb 4th, 2009 at the University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California USA

California State University, East Bay also participates in the Internet2 project, a collaboration led by over 200 U. S. universities, private industries, and governments to develop advanced network technologies for research and higher education in the 21st century.

From 2007 to 2011, Lehman chaired the board of Internet2, an advanced not-for-profit U. S. networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government.

* Internet2, an advanced not-for-profit US networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government

It is one of a series of efforts at TCP tuning that adapt congestion control and system behaviors to new challenges faced by increases in available bandwidth in Internet components on networks like Internet2.

As a part of the Internet2 initiative, the university maintains several research computer laboratories including a high-performance computational cluster in its DESAC center.

Through links to research networks in other regions ( such as Internet2 and ESnet in the USA, TEIN in Asia-Pacific and RedCLARA in Latin America ), GÉANT allows collaboration between researchers on a global scale, reaching over 60 NRENs outside of Europe.

LionShare began as an experimental software development project at Penn State University and has now grown to be a collaborative effort between researchers and developers at Penn State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, and the Internet2 P2P Working Group.

It later changed its name to Internet2.

The research and education community continues to develop and use advanced networks such as NSF's very high speed Backbone Network Service ( vBNS ), Internet2, and National LambdaRail.

However, in early 2006, St. Mary's joined the University of Maryland Academic Telecommunications System ( UMATS ), which interconnects the University System of Maryland with several other networks, including the Internet and Internet2 networks.

Other achievements include: construction of the University Technology and Learning Center, University Housing-North ; the A. Alfred Taubman Student Services Center ; a redeveloped campus quadrangle ; the Center for Innovative Materials Research ; establishment of a Faculty Senate ; conversion of the computer system to a client server model with full Internet2 connectivity and online library access ; creation of Michigan ’ s first completely wireless laptop campus ; and expanded bookstore, dining, and student activity facilities.

As a member of Internet2 and the Internet, the University enjoys instant communication with institutions all over the world for the purposes of correspondence and information access.

* Internet2 ( aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development )

Known as an advocate for the role of universities in globalization, he previously served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School, president of Cornell University, and Chair of the Board of Internet2.

The University of Washington has sponsored membership into the Internet2 community.

Internet2 has control over provisioning and uses the 40 wavelength capacity to provide IP backbone connectivity as well as transport for a new SONET-based dynamic provisioning network based on the Ciena Corporation CoreDirector platform.

It also takes credit for the first non-commercial IPv6 / Internet2 radio stream.

It is possible that many news sources adopted the term Internet2 because it seems like a logical name for a next-generation Internet backbone.

Internet2 adopted the name Internet2 Network for its entire network infrastructure.

Such projects have included communities such as the Society of American Archivists, the Open Archives Initiative, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the International Organization for Standardization, the National Information Standards Organization, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Engineering Task Force, and Internet2.

The Shibboleth Internet2 Middleware Initiative project has created an architecture and open-source implementation for Identity management and federated identity-based authentication and authorization ( or Access control ) infrastructure based on Security Assertion Markup Language ( SAML ).

The Fox is equipped with an Internet2 capacity of 1 gigabyte per second speed through Pacific Northwest Gigapop, allowing the unique opportunity for selected classes to be conducted interactively over the Internet2 with educational institutions in other locations, and local audiences and participants viewing from the beautiful venue at The Fox.

Since its inception in 1998 at Argonne National Laboratory, the Internet2 initiative known as the Access Grid ( a large-format presentation, video conferencing and interactive environment ) has used backchannel communications to permit the node operators to pass URLs for display at another site, troubleshoot problems and even discuss what's for lunch at their location.

* Van Houweling, Douglas and Ted Hanss, " Internet2: The Promise of Truly Advanced Broadband ," in The Broadband Explosion, R. Austin and S. Bradley, Editors, Harvard Business School Press, 2005.

Internet2 operates the Internet2 Network, a next-generation Internet Protocol and optical network that delivers production network services to meet the high-performance demands of research and education, and provides a secure network testing and research environment.

The Internet2 community is actively engaged in developing and deploying emerging network technologies beyond the scope of single institutions and critical to the future of the Internet.

Some sources even suggest that Internet2 is a network wholly separate from the Internet.

Technologies include ultra-broadband access to the Internet and Internet2, network security, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, video conferencing and VoIP.