Reno (NV) – Internet2 said it will provide some insight at future tiered network capacities by demonstrating its Dynamic Circuit technology at the supercomputing conference SC07.

Application-tailored bandwidths within closed and open networks are making a huge step forward with dynamic circuit networks (DCN), a technology that is currently being rolled for the Internet2. Rather than traditional IP networks that equally divide the capacity of a network to all requesting applications, a DCN can provide on-demand or scheduled dedicated point-to-point bandwidth to specific applications with specific bandwidth requirements.

At SC07, Internet2 representatives plan to demonstrate the interoperability of its DCN with other DCNs using the Inter-Domain Controller (IDC) protocol, which was developed by Internet2 in collaboration with GEANT2, and ESnet and is considered as the standard for interoperable dynamic circuit networking today.  

In a prepared statement Internet2 chief technology officer Rick Summerhill, said “creating standardized protocols to link optical networks across domains is a major step toward creating a ubiquitous dynamic circuit infrastructure that can seamlessly support the research of today, and of the future." However, while DCNs are purely limited to research organizations in the foreseeable time, the technology also make its way into the commercial field, enabling Internet service providers to creating a new generation of tiered Internet solutions.

Internet2 believes that the benefits of DCNs will begin to surface as a result of experiments that produce massive amounts of data. For example, particle collision experiments in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are expected to create petabytes of data every year. Networks that can provide dedicated bandwidths for such applications could make the access and analysis of data substantially more efficient.

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Nov 13, 2007 19:55     

I'm sure that it would be faster... but also much more easier to control. So they would be able to shut down any website when ever they want. Government control hear we come! And I'm sure with harder time ahead they will use it. Long ---> Short... consolidated control not always a good idea.
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So when do regular users to get use I2?

Nov 13, 2007 22:06     

:- Can't wait. The internet is slow.
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Maybe I'm confused

Nov 14, 2007 08:16     

Maybe I'm confused but I didn't think internet 2 wasn't a product or the future of the internet. I thought it was what universities use as a dedicated network between campus a crossed the country.
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@ Jackson - There was a time when the internet...

Nov 15, 2007 00:07     

There was a time when the internet was only used by the government. So we will eventually see this technology. Maybe our internet is slow but the good old internet 1 (if thats what you wanna call it) can give some users 100 mbps up and down. We will see better speeds in a steady increase over the years to come. When I first got comcast in out neighborhood a few years ago the speed was around 3 mbps maybe and now it is darn near 8 mbps down and 356 kbps up. Still horrible on the up but I think we will start to sse a big change in the up speeds in America soon.

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