Slashdot | Internet2 Gets a New Backbone

Slashdot Internet2 Gets a New Backbone: "Internet2 Gets a New Backbone
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 26, @05:34AM
from the where-and-through-whom dept.
wrong_fuel writes 'A few of you know that Internet2 and NLR (National Lambda Rail) have been in talks for some time regarding a merger of the two networks. Those talks have fallen apart and Internet2's contracts with Qwest communications had already been allowed to lapse. Internet2 has now reached an agreement with an unnamed carrier for its next generation backbone. The new network will likely be named later this year (the old one was referred to as 'Abilene') and current member Universities will be migrated off of Abilene by September 2007.' "
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my theory? the 'unnamed carrier' is Google. What better way to rip control of the net from Microsoft then by 'owning' the internet?