The University of Nebraska is one of roughly 180 institutions participating in Internet2, helping to accelerate the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is the next generation of the Internet and is primarily research-based. Cornhusker.net, located at 1401 O St., moved downtown in the fall of 2000. Locating a technology-related business there has a number of perks. In our case, it's easy access to high-speed connectivity.
Office space is relatively inexpensive downtown.
Cornhusker.net provides a wide range of services. We're a small enough company that we're not locked into any one way of providing service to a customer. For instance, the business provides services to the Cornhusker Hotel via a wireless connection, he said. The hotel wanted the most bandwidth for the least cost and to be able to allow numerous guests in the hotel to have Internet access at the same time. Their customers can have Internet access anywhere in the hotel.