The high Bandwidth challenge
Internet2, applications !
http://www.internet2.edu/home.html
Next Generation Internet (NGI)
http://www.internet2.edu/html/internet2-ngi.html
or http://www.ngi.gov/ , http://www.hpcc.gov/ngi/
very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS)
http://www.nlanr.net/VBNS/vBNS.html