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To: Stoctrash who wrote (47811)	12/3/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: VidiVici	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Internet to Get an Upgrade Philadelphia Inquirer (12/01/99) P.D1; Woodall, Martha The Pegasus project, which aims to create new technologies to ensure that the Internet can support its rapidly rising usage, has received $7.5 million in funding from the federal government. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the past two years, includes researchers from Bell Atlantic, Lucent, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, City College of New York, and MCP Hahnemann University. The project aims to ensure that the government's Next Generation Internet is 1,000 times faster, more reliable, and more capable of supporting sophisticated applications than the current Internet. The federal government announced the Next Generation Internet project two years ago, not long after a group of universities announced the Internet2 project. The Next Generation Internet "focuses on creating new technologies to build networks of the future," says Drexel's Stewart Patrick, who will manage Pegasus. Pegasus will address architecture, optical networking, and applications. Researchers will examine issues such as whether current Internet protocols will support future multimedia applications. For its part, Lucent plans to create a packet switch that can process 100 times more information per second than today's switches.