With the help of the Telematics Institute and Surfnet, IBM will open a similar site in the Netherlands. The company also is working on video software to let workers at different locations receive training or collaborate on projects, Wladawsky-Berger said. While these first pilot projects will be conducted with universities and governments, IBM will start working with corporate customers in the next six months, Wladawsky-Berger said. In the centers, IBM and its partners will try to overcome other Internet bottlenecks. Those roadblocks include the lack of a standard way to divide the available space in a network for transmitting information, voice, and video.
Storage is another focus.
IBM will experiment with revving Internet speeds by using storage systems distributed throughout a network, rather than in one system in a remote location. Later this month, IBM will give money to four universities to foster development of Internet technology. All Rights Reserved.