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ITEC-Ohio and ADEC to Test New Fast Satellite Technologies for Use in Remote AreasCOLUMBUS, Ohio. -- The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center of Ohio (ITEC-Ohio) and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), announced collaborative efforts to develop and deploy new technologies over satellite networks that are being used to provide distance education programming to under served and rural areas of the United States. ADEC is a national consortium of 60 state and land grant institutions providing economic and distance education programs and services via Internet satellite links. ADEC's Internet Satellite Project -- ADECnet -- is developing and deploying advanced Internet services and technologies over a satellite infrastructure in order to enhance research, instruction and learning at a diverse set of institutions such as tribal colleges, historically black colleges, and Hispanic serving institutions, which are geographically remote and far removed from terrestrial Internet connectivity (land lines). ADEC President, Janet K. Poley, said ADEC relies on ITEC-Ohio's expertise in measurement, monitoring and traffic characterization to help identify technical problems in order to develop innovative performance measures, testing and monitoring processes and procedures, traffic modeling, application tools, and end user services that will be second to none in the world. Poley said more than 50 local satellite sites will be operational by January 2002, and that if the project is successful it could eventually grow to more than 500 sites nationwide. By engaging previously unreachable campuses and remote learning centers, ADEC will enable a broader set of scholars to collaborate in research and instruction. This combined effort by ADEC, ITEC-Ohio and Tachyon, Inc., will also extend the benefits of Internet2, the national consortium of U.S. universities, government and industry that is building the next generation of advanced, high-speed Internet technologies. Tachyon, Inc., is a San Diego-based global wireless Internet provider that carries traffic via satellite links, and is contributing equipment and technical services to the project. Small colleges and universities, local learning centers, K-12 school districts, youth development centers and rural university extension offices can connect up to 50 computers on their local area networks to the satellite link. The ITEC-Ohio and ADEC relationship allows experimentation with and testing of not only regular Internet services, but also research and development of audio and videoconferencing, multi-casting and real-time research data transmission.
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