[sldev] Does SL connect into Internet2 ?

[Dale Mahalko]

It appears that PK-12 public schools in Wisconsin could connect into the
hyperspeed Internet2 project fairly inexpensively.

The big problem for me is figuring out how this might be useful for a public
school since it is primarily a research network. What exactly are we going
to use it for?


It would be nice if someday SL could be used in a school computer lab
setting, but I've often said on here how this is impossible due to the lack
of proxy cache support (e.g. squid) and that due to E-Rate funding we are
limited to only 3 megabit of general Internet bandwidth for the entire
school.

Internet2 would be a way around this. So if SL is demanding 500 kilobit per
lab PC for good performance, that is fine -- if SL can come in over I2.

Heck, with I2 as a way to get onto SL, we could have 50 megabit per PC out
to SL, in a lab of 30 machines and still have no upper bandwidth limit
problems.


Though I may need to install a new 10 gigabit school network backbone to
handle all this, in addition to the normal file server traffic... ;-)

- Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
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