Solving Challenges

How Internet2 Membership Advances Your Institution

Access to the community, networks, and technologies that have helped advance R&E institutions for over 25 years.

Membership Equips Institutions & Leaders to Advance

Technology leaders are under pressure to solve challenges and stay ahead of major developments. Internet2 was created to provide advanced technology, infrastructure and services that focus on the R&E community’s unique needs

Network

Ensure Sustainability of Cyberinfrastructure

Maintain durable operational control over services and solutions created and governed by research and education.

Act as a co-owner, co-investor, and co-developer of high-performance technology platforms that are designed to deliver results for education, research, and scholarship on a global scale. No single institution could replicate this technology and service environment on its own.

Help determine what is in Internet2’s portfolio, how the products and services are designed, developed, and implemented, and how those products and services are delivered. With any other service provider, you simply order off a fixed menu of products and services that may not have R&E needs in mind.

Feel confident that your needs are focused specifically on research, scholarship and education—and are factored into every Internet2 service.

Seamless connectivity across the world would be nearly impossible without the community-owned and operated cyberinfrastructure through Internet2.
Tracy Futhey,
Tools

Maintain & Improve

your institution’s capabilities and competitiveness for the best research, students, faculty and staff

Leverage critical, emerging technologies and services to position your institution to flourish, prosper and compete.

Join your peers & colleagues across R&E in delivering research, scholarship, education, and community service on a global scale.

Leverage the “power of community” to gain knowledge, take on shared challenges and provide solutions to meet shifting needs.

This advancement (major expansion of 400 gigabits per second (Gbps) transoceanic circuit capacity)in trans-Atlantic high-speed connectivity will enable researchers and students in Canada to contribute to and benefit from global scientific discoveries and is truly a testament to the collaborative ethos of the global research and education networking community.
Mark Wolff,
Website

Evolve at Great Speeds

with Advanced Networking, Cloud and Security services that are continually optimized to meet the evolving needs of research and education.

Work on a network that is designed, built, and managed by and for the R&E community, so services are optimized to meet the demanding and evolving needs of high-performance, data-intensive collaborations locally, nationally, and globally.

Apply specialized cloud, compute, and storage platforms; trust and identity solutions; and advanced support services tailored for the needs of research, scholarship and science.

Use “always-optimized” services and infrastructure designed by you and your peers to evolve with you as your needs change.

Our collaboration with the Internet2 community aims to expedite the adoption of network and automation technologies within educational and research institutions, thus enhancing the U.S. R&E infrastructure.
Jeff Bradbury,
Community

Increase Productivity and Efficiencies

with a human network and intellectual community of like-minded peers dedicated to advancing the way research and education institutions operate.

Influence Internet2 initiatives and solutions for the advancement of the entire R&E community by contributing on program advisory groups, task forces, working groups and the Board of Trustees, as well as participating in conferences, workshops, and professional development events.

Engage across the R&E community to invest in the skills and work environments of your researchers, teachers, and experts—supporting their work with emerging trends and the most advanced technologies and services available.

Help determine how your staff is trained to support your educators and researchers, and you take advantage of developing your staff’s skills while working with colleagues across the globe.

Volunteering with InCommon working and advisory groups has really helped me to grow, both personally and professionally … I’ve learned so much about myself and about participating and leading. I’ve also had a chance to give back to something so much bigger than any individual or even any participating organization.
Keith Wessel,
Webinar

Leverage Partnerships

with peer institutions, industry, federal and international partners who are dedicated to advancing research and education capabilities

Collaborate, contribute, and benchmark knowledge in a community with a collective passion to adopt common best practices and positively transform the world through research, education, and scholarship.

Access partnerships with NSF, NIH, NASA, NOAA, Smithsonian, and more—who provide important support for your institution’s mission and goals
Work to develop advancements for research, education and science with industry members who help the R&E community deploy emerging technical capabilities and conduct research.
We need to all come together and have mechanisms to understand what the community as a whole sees as the future, where we need to be working and investing in to serve the kinds of research that’s going to happen in 10 years.
Dana Brunson,

We can’t wait to hear from you!