Killer applications for internet/internet2 and their impact to the telecommunication industry

摘要

Internet has been rapidly advancing with technological components and useful applications. In only a few years' time, it evolved from a principally acadernic research network to a commercial network poised as the network solution for information service and various electronic commerce. Recently, a major movement initiated mostly by the academic institutions is calling for the development of a high bandwidth (miniumum of 155 Mb/s) national network called Internet2 to be completed by 2001. These Internet developments on the one hand are prompted by the fever of application growth visible on the current Internet and on the other hand are searching for the major kiler applications which can justify the investments and the development efforts of the next generation Internet. This phenomenon should be quite familiar to the telecommunication industry; for example, when telephone companies and cable companies were making their investments in network speed and capacity they were looking for their major killer applications to bring back healthy returns for their investments.