The Next Generation Internet Program (also ''NGI'', ''NGI Initiative'') was a
United States Government
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project intended to drastically increase the speed of the
Internet
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. President
Bill Clinton
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and Vice President
Al Gore announced their commitment to the program on October 10, 1996.
The last Internet Archive mirror of the site
stated:
:''The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program has been successfully completed and the Federal agencies are currently coordinating advanced networking research programs under the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Coordinating Group. Please see the LSN Website at http://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=Large_Scale_Networking_Coordinating_Group_(LSN_CG).''
:''The NGI Program met all of its goals except for its goal of Terabit per second networking in FY2002 that is expected to be met by the current LSN research activities.''
The Large Scale Networking Coordinating Group was part of the
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program.
References
See also
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Internet2
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IPv6
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Next Generation Internet (disambiguation) Next Generation Internet may refer to:
*China Next Generation Internet (CNGI), a five-year plan initiated by the Chinese government
* Future Internet, a general term for research projects on how the Internet might evolve
* Next Generation Internet ...
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IPv6