Internet2 provides members a wide range of reliable services that serve as a platform for the most extreme research, development, and experimentation our community can imagine. Internet2 takes a systems approach to high performance networking, providing its members a wide range of integrated services, from dark fiber to production IP and optical networking, to middleware and advanced applications.To learn more, please visit the Internet2 Information Kit, or contact services@internet2.edu.
Our Approach: Today, building high performance
networks can not be about providing capacity alone. Internet2 believes
that progress in advanced networking requires a systems approach which
integrates each layer of the network model to create a cohesive,
scalable, and secure system from the ground up. The systems approach is
critical to our community's ability to conduct science, to engage in
research, to educate, and to bring diverse communities together in rich
new ways.
Internet2 FiberCo
FiberCo serves as a fiber-holding company providing a means for Internet2 members to acquire dark fiber assets.
Internet2 Professional Services
Customized professional services are available to assist in the planning and operation of regional optical networks.. Internet2 Professional Services may be provided by Internet2 or one of its affiliated companies.
Internet2 WaveCo
WaveCo provides Internet2 members cost-effective access to static poin-to-point circuits anywhere on the Internet2 infrastructure, or on the Level 3 Communications nationwide network.
MAN LAN
Manhattan Landing (MAN LAN) is a high performance exchange point in New York City that supports both Layer 1 optical and Layer 2 Ethernet connections to facilitate peering among U.S. and international research and education networks.
Internet2 Commons
The Internet2 Commons service which provides IP-based collaboration technologies like H.323 videoconferencing which allows members to schedule and hold distributed meetings, no matter where participants may be located.
InCommon
The InCommon Federation provides a framework for inter-institutional authentication and authorization to enable secure access of protected online network services and resources.
USHER
Internet2 supports the U.S. Higher Education Root (USHER), which acts as a public key infrastructure (PKI) solution for the higher education community for applications and services that require encryption or true digital signature technologies.
