28.9.1998

PRESS RELEASE

 
NORDUnet and Internet2 announce collaboration on advanced Internet
technologies and applications
 
San Francisco, September 27, 1998 - At the semi-annual Internet2 meeting
held here this week, NORDUnet, representing the research and education
networks of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and Internet2, a
project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
(UCAID), established by US universities to provide direction for advanced
networking development in the US university community, signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to jointly collaborate on the development of next
generation Internet technologies and applications.
 
"Researchers in the Nordic countries are now well equipped to join the 
development of new and advanced network applications together with 
their colleagues in the US. ", stated Peter Villemoes, 
General manager of NORDUnet A/S
 
"This agreement helps open the way for increased collaboration between
researchers in the US and those in the Nordic by employing our joint
efforts in meeting the challenges of making advanced networking
technologies and applications globally available" said Doug Van Houweling,
President and CEO of UCAID.
 
As part of the agreement, NORDUnet and Internet2 agree to:
· provide appropriate interconnection between and among their respective 
members and networks for the purpose of development and pre-commercial 
testing and use of advanced research and education applications; 
· collaborate on the development of common standards and technical 
implementations across their respective networks; 
· promote collaboration between their constituent member organizations and 
institutions relating to the development of next-generation networking and 
applications in research and higher education; 
· encourage technology transfer from their joint endeavors to accelerate
the availability of new services and applications;
 
Internet2, a project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet
Development seeks to provide leadership and direction for advanced
networking development within the U.S. university community. Its programs
are devoted to network research, technology transfer, and collaborative
activities in related fields such as distance learning and educational
technology. Internet2 is a collaborative project by over 130 U.S. research
universities, in partnership with industry leaders 
and U.S. federal agencies, to develop a new family of advanced applications
to meet emerging academic requirements in research, teaching and learning.
Internet2 is addressing this challenge by creating a leading edge network
capability, enabling a new generation of applications, and integrating
these efforts with the current academic Internet services. 
 
NORDUnet A/S is responsible for the development and operation of a
Nordic research network backbone. NORDUnet serves research and
education in the Nordic area and has a total international bandwidth
connected to its node in Stockholm of approximately 700 Mbits/s. NORDUnet
deploys modern networking equipment and is among the most well 
equipped and maintained research network backbones in the world. 

NORDUnet A/S is a limited company owned by government institutions
responsible for higher education in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark
and Iceland. A brochure is available for ordering from info@nordu.net

NORDUnet
www.nordu.net

Internet 2-project
www.internet2.edu


Rami Heinisuo
Information service manager
NORDUnet