Michael Kleeman Quoted on Colleges' Plan for Faster Computer Networks
Colleges Join Plan for Faster Computer Networks
07/27/2011
John Markoff,
The New York Times
A coalition of 29 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks — with Internet service several hundred times faster than what is now commercially available — in the communities surrounding the participating colleges.
The project, which is named Gig.U and will be announced on Wednesday, is meant to draw high-tech startups in fields like health care, energy and telecommunications to the areas near the universities, many of which are in the Midwest or outside of major cities. These zones would ideally function as hubs for building a new generation of faster computer networks, which could make the United States more competitive internationally.
For now the plan is a work in progress, with the universities reaching out to telecommunications companies for suggestions and to corporations and nonprofits for business ideas. The institutions involved include Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Howard University, Duke University, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, the University of Chicago and George Mason University.
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Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at IGCC and involved in several projects involving homeland security and critical infrastructure protection, including "Training and Exercises in California Homeland Security." Kleeman is a technology industry strategist whose particular skill is in bridging technical and business issues.
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