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Sep
2019

Community Architects’ Workshop Attendees Support Leveraging Segment Routing and EVPN

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…

18
Sep
2019

Next Generation Infrastructure Service Model Update

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…

18
Sep
2019

NGI Packet RFP to be Released in October 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…

18
Sep
2019

Ciena Selected as NGI Optical Platform Partner

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…