Edited sentence: Another application is the robust video conferencing now available to Internet2 participants.Many fields have been able to use the Abilene network to foster creativity, research, and development in a way that was not previously possible.Neurosurgeons can now video conference with other experts in the field during an operation in a high resolution format with no apparent time lag.These technologies and their organizational counterparts were not only created to make a faster alternative to the internet.Users of poor quality libraries can now download not only text but sound recordings, animations, videos, and other resources, which would be otherwise unavailable