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14
Dec
2021
By Rob Vietzke, Vice President, Network Services
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes As we head into the new year, Internet2 is delighted to share that our five-year process to renew and enhance the Internet2 network is now substantially complete. The new infrastructure makes improvements in service agility, service reliability, capacity…
09
Dec
2021
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes New 100-gigabits circuit from Guam to Singapore contributes a critical path and boosts resiliency for the region’s research and education network fabric WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2021 – The recently formed Guam–Singapore Connectivity Consortium announced today new high-speed connectivity…
19
Nov
2021
By Amber Rasche
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Chris Wilkinson and Karl Newell Chris Wilkinson is the network services director of planning and architecture at Internet2, and Karl Newell is the network software architect at Internet2. In this Q&A, Chris and Karl discuss how software-driven automation…
03
Nov
2021
By Rob Vietzke, Vice President, Network Services
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes November 2021 marks a number of milestones in the completion of the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) and a transition to 2022 activities. We are very pleased to share this progress and begin to think about these important…
21
Oct
2021
By Amber Rasche
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Mike Simpson is the director of infrastructure systems and software in the network services division of Internet2. In this Q&A, Mike talks about expanding and upgrading Internet2’s perfSONAR capabilities to support the Next Generation Infrastructure. One of…
20
Oct
2021
By Amber Rasche
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Mark Feit is a principal software engineer at Internet2, one of the core developers on the perfSONAR team, and a presenter at the upcoming Internet2 TechEXtra: perfSONAR Day, which is being held virtually…
07
Oct
2021
By Linda Roos, Internet2 Senior Director, State and Regional Networks
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Internet2 is making steady progress on the transition of services to the Next Generation Infrastructure. We are now planning to begin the OESS and Internet2 Cloud Connect (I2CC) migrations on October 11, 2021. Over the…
07
Oct
2021
By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes As Internet2 completes its transition to a new core network architecture, it will no longer support Layer 3 protocol-independent multicast (PIM) as part of the Advanced Layer 3 Service (AL3S). This is due to minimal community utilization of…
05
Oct
2021
By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture
Estimated reading time: 1 minute Beginning in October 2021, Internet2 will remove Microsoft, Box, and the original Oracle Cloud Platform (AS7160) routes from the Advanced Layer 3 Service (AL3S) for research and education (R&E): AS11537. These routes will be transitioned to Internet2 Peer…
01
Oct
2021
By George Loftus, Internet2 Associate Vice President, Network Services
Estimated reading time: 1 minute Recent news that Cloudflare will soon offer storage with no egress fees is likely of great interest to many in the research and education community. To support researchers and others at Internet2 member organizations with large storage needs,…
