[sldev] Does SL connect into Internet2 ?

[John Hurliman]

What about running an OpenSim grid inside the Internet2 network?

John

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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