International
Reach of Internet2
The Internet2 is extended to other countries with over 30
international
partners all over the world through dedicated high-speed
network links. Such scale of international reach targets to
ensure global interoperability in the next generation of networking
technologies and to enable research and education through
advanced applications on a worldwide scale. With Internet2,
it is now possible to exchange data in real-time and to support
high-performance academic research applications to enable
the development and deployment of the revolutionary Internet
applications such as digital libraries, virtual laboratories,
distance-independent learning and tele-immersion etc.
The development
of Internet2 will foster international collaborations leveraging
the state-of-the-art emerging Internet applications and networking
researches by a high-bandwidth connection to the US Internet2
backbone and Next Generation
Internet (NGI). At present, there are a number of high-performance
networks participating in the Internet2 project, providing
an environment in which new network applications and capabilities
can be deployed and tested.
CityU Connectivity to Internet2
As our
routers have already been configured to automatically take
advantage of the connectivity to Internet2, therefore some
Internet traffic previously transit through the HARNET Internet
link may now transit through the HARNET Internet2 link in
a user-transparent manner.
