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Sep
2019
By Karl Newell, Internet2 Network Software Architect At the Community Architects Workshop, there was affirmation to leverage Segment Routing and EVPN in the next generation network. The community identified a few outstanding questions and an Internet2 staff team has been working on test plans to investigate those questions. The testing…
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Sep
2019
By George LoftusInternet2 Associate Vice President, Network Services The NGI project seeks to support five key use cases to update the value of the Internet2 Network service offerings. These include support for the data intensive researcher, supporting adoption of cloud services, providing more software and automation in the infrastructure, supporting…
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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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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 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…
