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Follow Internet2's Upgrade

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-install-internet2 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This is a follow-up to this story posted several months back. Abilene, the backbone for Internet2, is starting its upgrade and has a webpage up to follow the installation. Looks like quite a few interestesting documents and photos. The first Juniper T640 router was installed in Indianapolis on Friday. Anyone who's interested in what goes into a nation-wide network deployment should check it out."

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  1. Alright by Com2Kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I say that we all try our hardest to /. this baby and show those foo's that the old skool 'net ain't down for the count yet!

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    1. Re:Alright by danny256 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, good luck slashdotting a backbone.

  2. Hurray! by xenocide2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now all my intercollegiate... "transfers" will procede faster than I can burn them to CD!

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  3. One thing's for sure. by Deal-a-Neil · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the link to their site gets slashdotted, Internet2 isn't all its whooped up to be. :-) [j/k]

    "Installation Practice and Drills". Damn. When we install at a new co-lo, I usually have this down on a dinner (White Castle) napkin two hours previous, lose it, and do our practice-and-drill in production-real-time. There's definitely something to be learned about build-out and deployment just from looking at their pictures. 8-/

  4. Someone should sue them by ikekrull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since the Internet2's huge amount of available bandwidth is surely grounds for a contributory copyright infringment case.

    Might as well nip these new developments in piracy-enabling technologies in the bud.

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  5. Headline should have read by unsinged+int · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the unable-to-slashdot dept.

  6. Re:Time to change that cell number. by Fred+Ferrigno · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can make out the number, but I can't read the message -- once again proving that digital cameras can't make up for bad photography.

  7. Wimps! by FyRE666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the photos:

    Each crate weighed around 400 lbs, which is why you'll see three people moving one box.
    Now I know that geeks aren't exactly renowned for their great physical strength, but does it really take 3 of them to move a 400lb box on a pallet trolley?

    In my local supermarket I've seen young girls moving pallets full of new stuff for the shelves on these trolleys where the load is up to 1 tonne! (that's one girl moving the trolley, BTW).

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