A Local University, Connected to Internet2, Employs Several Professors in Its

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Multiple Choice

A local university, connected to Internet2, employs several professors in its school of engineering that are part of a research project that makes extremely heavy use of the bandwidth this connection provides. In fact, the engineering professors would like to get even more bandwidth. Given the way its designers set up Internet2, the researchers at the university

• A) are out of luck. One drawback of Internet2 is that, unlike the regular Internet, the technology of Internet2 can allocate only a fixed amount of bandwidth to each user.
• B) may be able to obtain more bandwidth, but only if the university is willing to pay for it.
• C) must petition the Internet2 Usage Committee and obtain approval.
• D) can install a simple bandwidth amplification card in each computer that compresses data, thus allowing it to flow more rapidly.

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