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To: Feraldo who wrote (11)	2/16/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74

Internet2 Distributed Storage Initiative February 16, 1999 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, U.S.A., Newsbytes via NewsEdge Corporation : The increased need for a higherperformance Internet has received an initial boost with the launching of the Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2- DSI) initiative. In the launch, IBM [NYSE:IBM] has provided equipment funding for what is being called "the first component" of "a new network infrastructure designed to support advanced Internet applications." IBM's funding will reportedly enable the development and testing of such applications as real-time broadcast quality video over higher bandwidth networks. Newsbytes notes that, as millions of new users log on to the existing Internet every month, it becomes increasingly clear that, coupled with the rise of multimedia file transfers and communications technologies as video broadcasting, and now the prospect of widespread Internet telephony, the existing Internet infrastructure is painfully unable to cope. I2-DSI is led by the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, which says the initiative is important in the eventual goal of developing new network services needed to enable collaborative research and distance learning, which will inevitably involve large volumes of multimedia data, such as video and audio. The I2-DSI is billed as a way for researchers to figure out the best way to move high-bandwidth content over public networks such as the Internet, which in turn will help in determining the most "efficient mix of networking and storage for delivering content over the Internet and ensuring quality of service." One area of research reportedly involves the development of advanced applications designed to "serve geographically dispersed network users by intelligently storing copies of high-bandwidth digital content." IBM says that its Web Cache Managers used in the initial deployment have a combined capacity of almost six terabytes, and will be installed at backbone access points at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Indiana University, U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center and the University of Hawaii.