The document discusses Internet2, an advanced networking consortium that operates a 15,000 mile fiber optic network for research and education. It provides very high speed connectivity and collaboration technologies to facilitate large data sharing and frictionless research. Examples are given of life sciences projects utilizing Internet2's high-speed network for genomic research and agricultural applications involving terabytes of satellite and sensor data. The network is expanding to include cloud computing resources and supercomputing centers to enable global-scale distributed scientific computing and collaboration.