Next Generation Infrastructure Archives

18
Sep
2019

Advanced Networking

Internet2 Network Upgrades Support Research and Education and Cloud Traffic

Estimated reading time: 1 minute By Linda Roos, Internet2 Senior Director, State and Regional Networks Internet2 continues to make incremental upgrades across the Internet2 Network. During the summer of 2019, many upgrades were made to the Network to support R&E and cloud traffic.

18
Sep
2019

Advanced Networking

Recommendations, Next Steps Discussed at Summer NGI Community Architects’ Workshop

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes By Linda Roos, Internet2 Senior Director, State and Regional Networks One hundred regional, campus and Internet2 staff representatives gathered on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on July 16-17, 2019, for the Community Architects’ Workshop. This…

18
Sep
2019

Advanced Networking Community News

Community Architects’ Workshop Attendees Support Leveraging Segment Routing and EVPN

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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…

18
Sep
2019

Advanced Networking

Next Generation Infrastructure Service Model Update

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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…

18
Sep
2019

Advanced Networking

NGI Packet RFP to be Released in October 2019

Estimated reading time: 1 minute 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…

18
Sep
2019

Advanced Networking

Ciena Selected as NGI Optical Platform Partner

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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…

28
May
2019

Advanced Networking

What We Learned: Next Generation Infrastructure Packet and Orchestration Partner Presentations

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 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…

05
Dec
2018

Advanced Networking

Another Record-Breaking Month and Planning for Continued Growth of Data-Intensive Research

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 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…

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