vBNS
Very high performance Backbone Network Service
- NSF Initiative (part of NGI - Next Gen Internet)
- UB awarded vBNS connection (92 Universities)
- OC3 (150 Mbits/second)
- Eventually OC12 (622 Mbits/sec)
- NYSERNet Consortium
- Rochester, UB, RPI, Columbia, and NYU
- No other SUNY has it
Internet2 Member
- Consortium of 134 Universities dedicated to NGI