internet2
- 1996
- Internet2 organization is created.
- April 1998
- Abilene network announced at the White House.
- February 1999
- Initial operation began. 2.5 gigabits per second backbone was completed.
- March 29, 2000
- Internet speed record is set at 8.4 gigabytes transferred over 81 seconds for a data rate of 957 megabits per second.
- 2004
- Abilene upgrade to 10 gigabits per second completed.
- 2006
- Internet2 celebrates its tenth anniversary.
- February 20, 2006
- The speed record is broken. Data is sent at 8.8 gigabits per second over a distance of 30,000 km for a period of 45 minutes.
- December 31, 2006
- The speed record is broken again. This time data is transferred at 9.08 gigabits per second over a distance of 30,000 km for a period of five hours.
si noi ne chinuim cu 10k / s provided by RDS ?? ;))
