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General Information

The Internet 2 is a consortium of universities, the government and private industry working together to create a broadband system for interchange of information.

Components of the Internet 2

• I2-DSI (Distributed Storage Infrastructure ) -
  The DSI project deals with replication and delivery issues and aims to resolve accessibility issues associated with sharing and using Internet- based educational content.
• I2-DVN (Internet2 Digital Video Network) -
  Aims to establish a national, higher education video network service to provide capabilities to support scalable and easy-to-use applications to deliver live or stored streaming and interactive high-quality digital video.
• QBone -
  The Internet2 QBone is a "Quality of Service Backbone" initiative of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

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