New nationwide Internet2 Network complete
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 9, 2007 at 4:29pm
Tuesday at its annual Fall Member Meeting, Internet2, an advanced network consortium led by the research and education community, announced the completion of its new nationwide network infrastructure. It has an initial capacity of 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) nationwide and is designed for researchers and educators.
The new optical infrastructure provides a scalable platform on which to build side-by-side networks that serve different purposes, such as network research and telemedicine. Internet2 is continuing to provide an advanced Internet Protocol (IP) Network, which supports production networking technologies such as IPv6, multicast, and other high-performance networking technologies.
It’s also introducing a new Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN). Beginning in January 2008, the DCN will enable researchers to provision up to 10 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth on demand. The new infrastructure also enables long-term dedicated point-to-point optical circuits up to 10 Gbps on separate wavelengths as part of the organization’s WaveCo service.
In addition to its initial capabilities, the new infrastructure provides a smooth path for increasing wavelengths and bandwidth as required by the Internet2 community. Currently, ten 10 Gbps links are provisioned on each segment of the network, but this can be scaled to 20 or 40 or 100 or more wavelengths as required by the community. Internet2 is also working with its network partners to test and develop new 40 and 100 Gbps technologies.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
