Next year's survey will be expanded to obtain this information. Carla Garnham As of yesterday Clinton announced that UWM and 27 other universities are officially part of the NSF vBNS structure along with Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and others. There are now a total of 92 universities in the vBNS high speed network connections program. There is a lot of confusion on campus among the various networking projects. This will be the major hardware piece of Internet 2.
Universities can join if they comply with the goals.
Since Internet 2 is focused strictly on the applications that run on the new hardware, it is inappropriate to think in terms of connecting to Internet 2. It is more appropriate to consider whether or not you have an application that exceeds the capabilities of the current Internet. There is also a campus steering committee that has not yet been activated. Most I2 projects to date now focus on the remote use of expensive instrumentation so that researchers wont have to fly into Lawrence Livermore or other places to use them. Brian Toner of the Physics department is working in this area.