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Intenet2 Backbone Upgrades

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-i-have-one-of-those-please dept.

An anonymous reader "Looks like Abilene, the backbone for Internet2 will join Canada's CA*Net3 and Europe's GEANT as one of the fastest research networks on the planet. According to this press release, Internet2 will be deploying 11 of Juniper network's freshly announced T640 platform. These puppies can cram 32 OC-192 (or 128 OC-48) interfaces into a single chassis. All in half a rack, too!" I'm sure those students are very happy with their ping times. Meanwhile in the real world... ;)

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  1. the techical triumph of BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It is very important to note that the most successful vendors use FreeBSD at the core of their product, not *linux. In fact, the *linux vendors are going out of business like flies. It's time we started taking note and switching over to an OS that really works and don't have VM or networking or device driver instabilities.