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RECORD-SETTING COMPETITION FOR INTERNET APPLICATIONS OPENS NEW ROUND

World's fastest networkers contest Internet2 Land Speed Record with
new next generation Internet protocol category

Washington, DC-March 5, 2002-Internet2 today announced that the next 
edition of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition for the 
highest-bandwidth networks in the world features a new category for the 
next generation Internet protocol called IPv6. The contest is open to 
anyone and is expected to attract entries from around the world. Awards 
will be presented at the Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting to be held 
in Arlington, Virginia on May 6 to 9.

"The Internet2 Land Speed Record demonstrates the ultimate end-to-end 
performance an application can achieve over both the current, and Next 
Generation, production quality IP based networks." Rich Carlson, Network 
Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and chair of the 
I2-LSR judging panel.

The current I2-LSR was set on March 28, 2000 by the University of 
Washington, the Information Sciences Institute of the University of 
Southern California, Qwest and Microsoft using the High Speed 
Connectivity Consortium (HSCC) Network to transfer over 8.4 gigabytes of 
data at a rate of over 830 megabits per second from Redmond, Washington 
to Arlington, Virginia.

Entries are judged on a combination of how much bandwidth they use and 
the distance they cover end-to-end. Eligible entries will use standard 
Internet (TCP/IP) protocols in separate v4 and v6 categories. The 
deadline for entries is April 14, 2002. Complete rules, submission 
guidelines and additional details are available at:
http://www.internet2.edu/html/i2lsr.shtml

About Internet2(R)
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and 
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the 
creation of tomorrow?s Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership of 
academia, industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in 
its infancy.  For more information about Internet2, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/

Contact:
Greg Wood
Internet2

202-331-5360

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