Filter
19
May
2021
By Linda Roos, Internet2 Senior Director, State and Regional Networks We are pleased to announce that the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) project is approaching the beginning of the shim phase, a significant milestone in the project. The shim allows us to insert the new Cisco hardware between each connector…
10
May
2021
By Robert Vietzke, Internet2 Vice President for Network Services Last evening, Internet2 reached a major milestone by moving over 1 exabyte of data in less than five months. This achievement occurs a little under two months earlier than last year1 and shows the continued acceleration of research data growth during…
03
May
2021
By Jon-Paul Herron, Director, Internet2 Network Operations Center (NOC) The last few weeks of the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) project have focused on testing. We want to be sure that the network design, deployment, connection, and configuration performs as expected before we put the community’s research, education and cloud…
06
Apr
2021
By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture In the two weeks since we reported the first 400 Gbps backbone connections on the Internet2 network, our team has made substantial progress toward fully deploying the hardware components of the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) platform. GDT…
22
Mar
2021
By Chris Wilkinson, Internet2 Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture Internet2 marks the beginning of this week having deployed its first operational 400 Gbps Ethernet connections for its new Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) platform. Cisco 8201 routers in adjacent cities are now connected using high capacity coherent optical…
26
Feb
2021
By Chris Wilkinson, Network Services Director of Planning and Architecture Internet2 today deployed its first 800 Gbps single-carrier optical circuit between Phoenix and Tucson as part of its Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) program. This circuit leverages a 102 Ghz carrier generated by a single Ciena Waveserver 5 transponder at…
16
Feb
2021
By Robert Vietzke, Internet2 Vice President, Network Services With an unexpected 2020 behind us, the Internet2 Network Services team is focused on 2021 objectives that deliver on the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) program: the completion of an upgraded research and education (R&E) network infrastructure with a substantially upgraded capacity that…
25
Jan
2021
Internet2 was created by the community, for the community 25 years ago, and that partnership remains strong today. Throughout 2020, Internet2 helped our community with ongoing efforts to support their campus communities and research environments. Here’s a quick glance at some of the past year’s highlights. If you have…
25
Jan
2021
By Scott Taylor, Internet2 Packet Platform Implementation Director The third week of the packet implementation for the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) program is complete. Cisco series 8000 routers are being installed in 48 locations around the country. These installs also include new equipment for our 100G performance assurance nodes,…
11
Jan
2021
By Scott Taylor, Internet2 Packet Platform Implementation Director January 2021 brought the start of the new year and the beginning of the packet implementation for the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) program. This implementation will bring 100G and 400G capabilities to 48 locations throughout the country, using new Cisco…
