Stinkymountain writes "With nearly $100 million in new funding, Internet2, the faster, better computer network reserved for probe and education, has embarked on an upgrade that will boost backbone a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative
2. capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities to a stunning 8.8Tbps and expand social welfare to hundreds of thousands of libraries, schools and medical centers. Internet2 was created by 34 teaching hospital inquest institutions in 1996, when the business and non-commercial branches of the Internet's evolutionary tree split off and went their individual ways. The mission of Internet2 was to provide reliable, consecrated bandwidth to support the ever-growing demands of the fishing expedition* and didactic communities, and in doing so, to develop technologies that would advance the state of the 'commodity' Internet. Some say it has failed in that latter category."

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