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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. Bandwidth Blues (Re:Ping times?) by travail_jgd · · Score: 1, Troll
    But these P2P apps adapt (simply because they are evil) and we are already seeing increases traffic. So guess what? We have to buy more bandwidth.
    (Offtopic and slightly toasty, so mod accordingly)...

    When I was in college (1990-94), administrators complained about the same things. Bandwidth was saturated! These crazy college kids and their MUDs, warez (2-3 MB at the time), and pr0n (~30-50 KB/image). The network admins swore that the Internet would collapse any day under the strain. And this is before WWW became widespread -- or the general public could use the Net.

    The networked world adapted. More bandwidth became available, and the equipment became cheaper. There's a report (story in the K5 queue) stating that about 97% of all fiber lines in America are unused. "Kids" are always going to push the limits of what's available. They have the time, energy, and lack of knowledge about "consequences" to do it.

    Want to cut your bandwidth costs, quick and easy? Disable all P2P services. FTP can use a lot of bandwidth; better get rid of it! And this new-fangled World Wide Web is a bandwidth hog too!

    Here's a very modest idea: cut all Internet/I2 services for students and make a faculty-only net with T3 Internet access, or just ban all computers on campus. Education existed for thousands of years without Internet, computers, or electricity. Turning back the clock 25 years shouldn't effect your campus too much. Or is it too much to ask that someone working at an educational institution be concerned with the future?