The Internet2 consortium is a collection of research and education facilities. Its aims are to bring these leading people from the Academic world and mix them with the leaders of industry, to facilitate the development, deployment and usage of the next range of internet technologies, using the internet2 high speed network.
The website is aimed at Industry leaders, as well as businesses and webmasters, who are looking to pay for the pleasure of using its high speed networking research facilities.
In my opinion, the internet2 consortium does not reach its target audience, it seems the public at large is not aware, that a complete second set of infrastructure exists, which is all fibre optic and is at the forefront of research and testing.
The site is not relevant to me, as I currently have no projects, that could make use of the Infrastructure, but if I was a large conglomerate, I could definitely see the benefits.
An interesting fact from the www.internet2.edu website is that, one of its facilities has a network observatory, which helps members to manage and better understand the inner workings of large scale infrastructure.
The website could be improved by changing the style sheet being used, at present the font is unreadable on my monitor, not enough information is giving about the individual members and member projects.
I personally would not encourage anyone to visit the site at present; it is more something I would advise people to keep an eye on, for the future.
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