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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…
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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…
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…
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Sep
2021
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Rob Vietzke, Vice President, Network Services Next month marks some major milestones for the Internet2 member community, including the culmination of our transition to the fifth-generation Internet2 network. Campus Technology recently interviewed VP of…
22
Sep
2021
By Glenn Lipscomb, Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes TechEXtra 2021: Next Generation Infrastructure & Advanced Networking Event Dec 1-3, 2021 Are you one of the many folks who participated in the Advanced Networking track room at a past Internet2 Technology Exchange event? Are you missing the…
16
Aug
2021
By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Internet2 last week migrated the first of its member connections onto the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). This major milestone marks the start of member traffic flow onto the new Internet2 backbone, following the successful completion of the…
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Jul
2021
By George Loftus, Internet2 Associate Vice President, Network Services
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Internet2 is pleased to announce that its Cloud Connect (I2CC) service now provides access to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute services through 100G connections in Ashburn, Virginia, and San Jose, California. I2CC continues to grow as a joint service…
07
Jun
2021
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Linda Roos, Internet2 Senior Director, State and Regional Networks Internet2 successfully completed our first Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) shim implementation in the early morning of June 2, 2021. Thank you to KyRON (Kentucky Regional Optical Network)…
