Internet2 - het supersnelle research netwerk voor amerikaanse universiteiten - heeft z'n officiële debuut gemaakt, zo bericht ABC News. Ter demonstratie werd een hoge resolutie HDTV filmpje (270Mbps) realtime van Stanford (Californië) naar Seattle geduwd:
Attendees watched a high-definition television stream from Stanford University, over California’s research network, through Internet2, through Washington state’s network and finally to UW. The broadcast was of higher quality than digital wireless transmissions. “These transmissions are production-quality video,” says Amy Philipson, one of the managers of University of Washington’s ResearchTV project. “This is the convergence that everyone’s been talking about, a real intersection of television and the Internet.”[...] Even Internet2 can only handle 622 megabits per second, making multiple streams nearly impossible — for now. One of the biggest challenges facing researchers, according to Internet2 spokesman Greg Wood, is to increase the bandwidth available on the research network or to figure out a way for multiple users to take advantage of a single stream.
