What is Abilene Network ?

Many references have adopted the name "Internet2" for a next-generation Internet backbone. However, Internet2 is a consortium and not a computer network. In fact, Internet2's previous name was Abilene Network. It is the U.S high-performance backbone network created by Internet2 community and it's high-speed backbone technologies have been developed by Internet2.

Many people think Internet2 is completely isolated from the public network. I think it is partially correct because it is not technically part of the Internet. However,Internet2 members are using the public Internet as their alternative access providing many resources.


By Youngju Kang