This improvement will be entirely transparent to the Harvard campus Internet user, according to Bradner.
Initially, the ability to reserve space will be available only to researchers.
For both the University and Internet users in general Internet 2 and the NGI will mean vast improvements in service offered on society's newest medium.
"First of all, the Internet has reached the point where enough people are connected that people who aren't connected are on the outside," Crocker said.
"The main thing is that there's going to be a certain amount of heat coming from that part of the economy," he added. "People should get a scorecard and watch the program."
Addressing concerns by some observers that Harvard and other universities might be receding from the main Internet, Bradner said, "you can't go back to an environment where the Internet was small, and it just connected a few universities. Internet 2 is not changing the fundamental way that Harvard will interact with the world.