Internet2 has finished the transition of its research and education network traffic to the fifth-generation backbone that interconnects with 37 state and regional networks, serving every state in the country. It’s an important development because the network serves a critical…
Internet2 is undertaking an infrastructure upgrade across the United States aimed at “enabling scientific collaboration on a greater scale” and on-demand cloud connectivity while cutting carbon emissions. The research and education network will use Cisco 8201 and 8202 routers in…
Internet2, a non-profit, member-driven advanced technology community, has chosen the CenturyLink fiber network to transform and enhance network performance. CenturyLink’s optical fiber is ITU-T G.652.D compliant and designed to be optimized for high bit rate coherent systems using advanced modulation…
Research and education network Internet2 plans to work with commercial cloud service providers on a project dubbed E-CAS for Exploring Cloud for Acceleration of Science. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud already have agreed to participate in the Internet2…
U.S. research and education (R&E) network Internet2 is working with other global R&E networks to enhance resiliency, bandwidth and economics of undersea connectivity. As Internet2 President and CEO Dave Lambert and Rene Buch, CEO of NORDUnet, explained in an interview,…
Software defined networking (SDN) concepts are critical to new capabilities launched on the Internet2 research and education network. Five higher education institutions are connected to a virtual network slice controlled via open source SDN network operating system (ONOS) technology and…
WASHINGTON & HACKENSACK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vidyo, Inc. and Internet2, a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions, today announced a low-cost, subscription-based video communications offering for all Internet2 university members and thousands of public K-12 schools…
LOUISVILLE, Colo. – March 21, 2013 – Zayo Group today announced its partnership with Internet2 to add substantial new capacity on Zayo’s fiber route from Chicago to Seattle. The system will have greater than 4 terabits of overall capacity to…
EDUCAUSE and Internet2 are teaming up to conduct pilot tests of digital learning materials including e-readers. More than 25 colleges and universities will participate in the testing, which aims to evaluate technologies and business models. For the fall 2012 portion of…
The Internet2 research and education network will underlie a range of new cloud services targeting the research and academic community announced today. Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink’s Savvis unit, Dell, HP and Microsoft are among a dozen or so private sector…
Academic research networking consortium Internet 2 and Level 3 Communications have signed a multi-year agreement to build a national network with an “unprecedented” 8.8 terabytes of throughput capacity, the partners announced. Funded in part via a federal broadband stimulus grant…
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