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Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Internet2 links Texas schools, universities - Sarah Szuminski, the Battalion
Yankee great Yogi Berra is reputed to have once said about a New York restaurant, "No one goes there anymore; it's too crowded." This is how Daniel A. Updegrove, vice president for information technology at The University of Texas-Austin, illustrated communication concerns about the Internet and explained the need for universities to communicate through a new, members-only communications program called Internet2. It is a high-speed system that is only available to subscribing members. The "backbone" network that connects users is called Abilene. Now, through a joint project including Texas A&M, UT, The University of Texas-San Antonio and UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, initial funding has been provided to make the Abilene network available to all public and private K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in Texas.
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