Abilene Network

[3] The legal entity behind the network was the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development.

It is possible that many news sources adopted the term Internet2 because it seems like a logical name for a next-generation Internet backbone.

Abilene was a private network used for education and research, but was not entirely isolated, since its members usually provide alternative access to many of their resources through the public Internet.

Abilene's Network Operations Center (NOC) was hosted at Indiana University since its inception.

Unlike the previous architecture, Level 3 manages and operated an Infinera Networks based DWDM system devoted to Internet2.