Most people are familiar with the high speed data networks universities, colleges, research institutions, and many private companies have access to.  The commodity internet grew out of initial research into data communications and networking.  We often take high speed access to the internet for granted.  While widespread broadband internet access continues to grow, a parallel set of overlaid, high speed, access restricted networks is also growing and many of the educational institutions, including museums, now have access to them.

One of these networks, Internet2, has a certain cache, yet remains largely untapped as a targeted content delivery platform.  This topic is being organized to discuss the potential and practical issues of designing and delivery content via networks such as Internet2 to the schools, museums, and other institutions that are connected to it and other high performance networks.