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 ?? )