Internet2
Internet2 is an international organization & high performance network, led by the higher education research community. It is designed to support:
- Research and education
- Testing and development of new technologies
- Highly reliable and secure information transmission
- Economic development
Faculty, staff, and students in the North Dakota University System, as well as K-12 schools, have participated in projects facilitated by Internet2. In fact, successful grant applications are increased by Internet2 capability, and faculty and researchers are increasingly identifying Internet2 as a needed resource in their grants.
Benefits
- Reliable, stable videoconferencing to sites around the world
- Access to large data sets for modeling research
- Reliable access to computational resources
- Access to high performance computing for global & regional weather research
- Participation in international data network
- Ability to transfer huge amounts of data daily
- Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining
- Secure retrieval of images and data
- High bandwidth human interaction
- Low latency virtual reality
- Interactive collaboration
- Real-time access to remote resources
- Shared virtual reality
- Increased grant opportunities
North Dakota's participants
I2 Members: (Currently membership in Internet2 is only available to institutions of higher education located in the United States.)
Since 1996, North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota have been Internet2 members.
SEGP: (The Sponsored Education Group Participants are state-wide K-12 networks, community college networks, and similar collectives of educational organizations. These networks are engaged in applications development and other projects designed to enhance their use of advanced networking infrastructure and services.)
The North Dakota University System (Bismarck State College, Dickinson
State University, Lake Region State College, Mayville State University, Minot State University, Minot State
University - Bottineau Campus, North Dakota State College of Science, Valley City State University,
Williston State College) have been a SEGP since 2001.
175 North Dakota K-12 Schools have been a SEGP since 2005.
The North Dakota Center for Persons with
Disabilities Flatlands Disability Network have been a SEGP since 2005.
Sponsored Participant: (Individual educational institutions or non-educational, not-for-profit or for-profit organizations that require routine collaboration on instructional, clinical, and/or research projects with Abilene.)
EduTech is a Sponsored Participant.
State Network: STAGEnet provides broadband connectivity, Internet access, video conferencing and other networking services to all state agencies, colleges and universities, local government, and K-12. It provides the connection to Internet2 for North Dakota.