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Private dollars wanted for next Net
By [34]Courtney Macavinta
June 5, 1997, 3:20 p.m. PT
SANTA CLARA, California--A White House official's call was dropped
when he tried to patch into a high-tech industry powwow about the
[35]Next Generation Internet (NGI) today--a timely demo of the
network's need for a facelift.
[36]NASA's Ames Research Center hosted the federal government's
briefing today in hopes of roping in commercial technology partners to
help build the Clinton Administration's three-year, $3 million NGI
initiative.
The NGI initiative aims to build a faster, smarter Internet, creating
new applications and networking technologies to improve communication
among the nation's academic and research centers. In some cases, NGI
will route data at 1,000 times the speed of today's network, and will
be able to store bandwidth for real-time data transmission.
The audience laughed when the videoconferencing connection from
Washington to the Techmart in Santa Clara crashed. But the White
House's senior director of the National Economic Council, Thomas
Kalil, spun the mishap into a plea for his cause.
"This certainly shows why dependability and reliability need to be a
priority for the Next Generation Internet," Kalil said when he finally
got connected.
Just as the private sector and universities assisted in creating
ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, Kalil and representatives from
NASA and the [37]Energy Department want companies and the government
to build the NGI as a team.
Companies could benefit by receiving federal funds for research and
development; they would be able to keep copyrights of their products
in order to commercialize them, said Maylene Duenas of NASA Ames.
In return the government will get input and expertise from industry
without recreating existing private research or making the same
mistakes. Federal agencies and research facilities also need NGI to
shoot huge volumes of secure data across the country.
"Past investments in this area have a high return on investment,"
Kalil said. "We would like to see the United States maintain its
position as a charter of innovation."
California is already heading up a private/public Internet
partnership.
Dubbed the [38]Corporation for Network Education Initiatives in
California (CENIC), the organization's goal is to oversee the
development and operation of an improved data network between the
state's university research centers.
[39]Pacific Bell has already struck a deal to set aside some of its
bandwidth for the project. "Private involvement is critical," Susan
Astrada, executive director of CENIC said today. "There is no way the
academic community could afford it."
[40]Sun, [41]Cisco, [42]Silicon Graphics, [43]Novell, [44]Lucent
Technologies, and [45]MCI have already endorsed NGI or plan to work on
the project in various capacities.
Although the general public won't be able use the infrastructure for
five to ten years, the NGI initiative makes several promises that the
White Hose says will trickle down to all Net surfers.
For example, developers are working with the creators of [46]Internet
2, a separate project funded by academia.
More than 100 universities across the country are spearheading the
project to develop new computer network applications to help improve
their teaching and research facilities. The academic community will
invest $50 million a year to connect the schools' students and faculty
at speeds 100 times faster than the current network.
Another component of NGI will connect just ten research facilities
nationwide at speeds 1,000 times faster than the Internet.
This means the Energy Department could send its reports of global
climate changes over the NGI in 15 seconds. The data takes 15 minutes
to send now, said Martha Krebs of the government agency.
Not all are happy with Clinton's plan for the next Internet.
Yesterday, senators from Alaska to Montana told the president's
technical advisers that NGI was leaving out rural universities by
turning only to well-known urban institutions for guidance.
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