I wasn’t familiar until today of what Internet2 Network is all about, but today I read some articles about the extreme speeds they reached in their private fiber optic network. In April they managed to send data at 7.67GBps by using standard communication protocols and then, 24 hours later, beat that by using IPv6 protocols to achieve 9.08Gbps.

News I’ve read today mentioned that Internet2 is prepared and will be offering 100Gbps capacities, through a new technology called Dynamic Circuit Network. Apparently, with Internet2 completed, researchers and universities will be able to share enormous amounts of data without using www, simply setting up dedicated 10Gbps point-to-point links on the fly.

This service will be launched, officially, in January 2008, but Dr. Carl Lundstedt, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln already showed a demo of it, by transferring one-third of a terabyte of data in just five minutes.