What is Internet2?  Internet2 is a development effort currently led by 170 U.S. research universities working in partnership with industry leaders and U.S. federal agencies to develop a new family of advanced Internet applications and technologies. The University of Delaware is one of the 32 charter members of Internet2. The Internet2 Project is addressing the challenge of new academic requirements in research, teaching, and learning through the following activities: creating a leading-edge network capability, enabling a new generation of applications, and working with industry and international partners to transfer new technologies into the broad network community. Application areas encompass all academic disciplines and include digital libraries, virtual reality environments, collaboration tools, large-scale distributed computation efforts, access to remote instruments, data mining, and more. The same partnership among academia, industry and government that created today's multi-billion dollar information technology industry will ensure the future benefits of advanced networking to the global Internet.