What Internet2 Members Tell Us

How Members Advance Their Institutions

“Community-Owned and Operated”

— Emily Perry, University of Wisconsin

“Seemless connectivity across the world would be nearly impossible without the community-owned and operated cyberinfrastructure through Internet2. Seemless connectivity across the world would be nearly impossible without the community-owned and operated cyberinfrastructure through Internet2.”

“Without Internet2 …”

–Jennifer Kim, Harvard University

My institution would not enjoy the performance, agility and flexibility that a community-owned and -operated cyber-infrastructure provides.

I would not have a community-owned network across the country and globe
I would’ve spent millions of dollars in technical, legal and procurement costs to evaluate and deploy new cloud services.
I would not have eduroam and easy wifi access when I travel around the world.
I would have to build access to 100+ discrete applications for users instead of one single sign-on solution
Costs and redundancy of a national network would be unmanageable
I would not enjoy direct connections with major solution providers
I would not have visibility into network flows with high-performance remote scientific instruments that cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour to access
I would not have peers that come together to advance these solutions and find new solutions.”

— Jennifer Kim

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“I2 is Us”

Stan Jones, Columbia University
Member since 2010

“Regardless of the challenge or opportunity I’m facing, my peers are in a similar position. I have a community that can discuss and determine how.”

Jane Doe, Indiana University
Member since 2010

“When I need to immediately scale bandwidth and connect to new applications or providers, we have community ownership and control of our infrastructure. This is especially important in times of unanticipated operational changes.”

John Doe, Harvard University
Member since 2010

“Leveraging combined community resources with industry solution providers has saved our institution millions of dollars in technical, legal, and procurement costs through Internet2.”

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