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Sep
2019
By Scott Taylor, Internet2 Packet Platform Implementation Director This summer the Community Architect’s Workshop in Minneapolis gave the Internet2 team an opportunity to share information that we’ve learned about different hardware platforms and protocols that will be incorporated into the next generation infrastructure. The community architects in attendance shared valuable…
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Sep
2019
By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Director of Network Planning and Architecture Optical Internet2 is pleased to announce that the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) Project has passed a significant milestone with the formal selection of Ciena as the NGI optical platform partner. The planned Ciena 6500 DWDM platform will feature a flexible-grid…
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Sep
2019
By Steven Wallace
Google has announced that it will require IRR records documenting the routing policy of all prefixes Google receives from its peer networks as early as October, 2019. Internet2 is providing support for campuses and regionals as they work to meet this requirement.Current information regarding this requirement…
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Sep
2019
By Stephanie Stenberg, Director, Internet2 Community Anchor Program Utilizing advanced networking, students can conduct original research using the same instruments as the nation’s premier scientists. These remote instruments let your students control a microscope or telescope hundreds of miles away to view everything from comets to mosquitos to microchips. Internet2’s…
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Aug
2019
By Paul Howell, Internet2 Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer Remote Triggered Blackhole Filtering (RTBH) is one among several mitigation techniques offered to the Internet2 community for mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) threats. Recently, the Internet2 network added support for RTBH signaling and filtering over the IPv6 R&E network. Inter-domain RTBH signaling…
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May
2019
By Rob Vietzke, Internet2 Vice President, Network Services During the week of May 1, Internet2 staff and community members met near San Jose, California, to hear presentations by potential partners in response to the call for information regarding the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) packet and orchestration plans. Eight potential partners…
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Dec
2018
By Thomas Barton, Senior Director and Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Chicago Quite a lot, it turns out, as demonstrated at the “Enabling Trustworthy Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Science” workshop, held at the University of Maryland in September 2018. The workshop, a collaborative production of Internet2 and Trusted…
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Dec
2018
By Rob Vietzke, Internet2 Vice President, Network Services After hitting a new record of 207+ petabytes of data moved in October, Internet2 continues to see continuous and substantial growth across all types of data it carries for the Research and Education Community. (We’re on track to move close to an…
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Sep
2018
By Nick Lewis, Internet2 Program Manager, Security and IdentityThe end of summer is always a busy time of year for campuses preparing for the new academic year. So this seems like a good time for an update on the NET+ Splunk program since the last update in April 2018, and as a…
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Sep
2018
By John Moore The R&E community continues to focus on planning for the next generation community investment in cyberinfrastructure. Last month, we announced the recently released Research and Education Community Investment in National-footprint Network Services (RECINNS) workshop final report and indicated that the next step in the next generation infrastructure…
