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Internet2 is a member-driven advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a collaborative environment where US research and education organizations can solve common technology challenges and develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research and community service missions. Our community touches nearly every major innovation that defines our modern digital lives—and continues to define “what’s next.” Internet2 operates the nation’s largest and fastest, coast-to-coast research and education network that was built to deliver advanced, customized services that are accessed and secured by the community-developed trust and identity framework, with Internet2 Network Operations Center powered by Indiana University. Internet2 serves 331 U.S. universities, 60 government agencies, 44 regional and state education networks and through them supports more than 94,000 community anchor institutions, over 900 InCommon participants, and 65 leading corporations working with our community, and 61 national research and education network partners that represent more than 100 countries.