Crib sheet: Internet of the future
- Article 65 of 77
- Information Age, December 2003
Researchers around the world – at Caltech, CERN and elsewhere – are working to fix the flaws in the Internet, that will make the web faster, more secure, more personalised and more interactive.
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A group of 205 universities, and various government agencies and corporate partners, have clubbed together in the US to create 'Internet2', a new network and software combination capable of giving its users 100Mbps Internet(2) access with assured quality of service (see box, Everything will be in the web) for video, voice and audio traffic.
When Internet2 technologies are mature enough, they will be handed down to ordinary Internet users and a little bit of the future will be theirs.
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