Colleges Band Together to Build Faster Computer Networks
By Rob Scott
August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
- A group of 29 American universities have teamed together in an effort to build ultra-high-speed computer networks.
- The Gig.U project hopes to provide Internet service speeds of up to 1Gbps (several hundred times faster than what is now commercially available).
- The plan is intended to draw high-tech start-ups from the energy, telecommunications and health care sectors to these university regions.
- According to The New York Times: “By offering one-gigabit network connections — fast enough to download high-definition movies in less than a minute — not just to scientific researchers and engineers but to the homes and businesses that surround universities, the group aims to create a digital ecosystem that will attract new companies, ideas and educational models.”
- Additionally, the project includes members from the heartland (such as Missouri, Montana and West Virginia), with midsize communities that would greatly benefit by the ultra high-speed broadband.
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