Middleware Initiative
Middleware, or "glue", is a layer of software between the network and the applications. This software provides services such as identification, authentication, authorization, directories, and security. In today's Internet, applications usually have to provide these services themselves, which leads to competing and incompatible standards. By promoting standardization and interoperability, middleware will make advanced network applications much easier to use. The Internet2 Middleware Initiative (I2-MI) is working toward the deployment of core middleware services at Internet2 universities. more...

End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi)
To create a predictable, and well-supported environment in which Internet2 campus network users have routinely successful experiences in their development and use of advanced Internet applications by focusing resources and efforts on improving performance problem detection and resolution throughout campus, regional, and national networking infrastructures. more...

K20 Initiative
The Internet2 K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 member institutions, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to get new technologies—advanced networking tools, applications, middleware, and content—into the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors in the United States, as quickly and as “connectedly” as possible. more...

Arts & Humanities Initiative
The Arts and Humanities Initiative assists Internet2 members in enabling and advancing collaborations between high performance networking technologies and applications in the arts and humanities. more...

Digital Video Initiative (DVI)
Digital Video is an distributed organization which seeks to build upon the efforts of other digital video groups and individuals. It provides an organizational structure for joint projects, dissemination and sharing of information, and promotion of digital video in general. more...

FiberCo™ (National Research and Education Fiber Company)
Internet2 has established the National Research and Education Fiber Company (FiberCo) to support regional fiber optical networking initiatives dedicated to research and higher education. The concept behind FiberCo is to help provide inter-city dark fiber to regional optical networks with the benefit of a national-scale contract and aggregate price levels. more...

Health Sciences Initiative
The Internet2 Health Sciences Initiative increases awareness of, and engagement in, the uses of high-performance networking throughout the medical research community. Current health sciences applications include areas such as medical education, virtual reality, telemedicine, telerobotics, and simulation, all of which have high-performance needs requiring advanced networking services. more...

Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI)
The Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project is examining future network architectures that consist of shared IP packet switching and dynamically provisioned optical waves. HOPI includes an effort to understand and investigate this future, as well as a testbed facility that will be built to test various aspects of potential hybrid designs. more...

The Internet2 Commons
A Large-Scale, Distributed Collaborative Environment for the Research and Education Community. The Commons is a framework for collaboration throughout the research and education community that will encourage large scale deployment of tools for one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaborations. These interactive communications include meetings, conferences, and activities related to teaching and learning. more...