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Internet2 Turns 10 and Upgrades

Posted by Zonk on from the something-new-gets-old dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As an update to a previous story, Internet2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Chicago this week at it's fall conference. In addition, they're announcing the initial stages of their second significant network upgrade of their backbone network. Engineers are providing daily blog updates on the network install process as the old network is transitioned to the new. In addition to changing to a Level3-managed and Internet2-provisioned DWDM transport system for backbone capacity, I2 is implementing a new connection-oriented backbone network based on the Ciena CoreDirector platform in concert with the routed IP network."

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  1. Tube by jlebrech · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You need much bigger tubes to run internet2. Ask Al Gore.

    1. Re:Tube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      This "Al Gore invented the internet" sh*t really needs to stop.

      If you read your history, Al was directly responsible for a very large funding push that made the internet useful to clowns like yourself. I apologize to you who think I'm merely being a troll, but if Gore hadn't got the funding, then "net neutrality" wouldn't even be a concept. You'd be paying a serious toll for crappy service from the likes of the "baby" Bells. Give the man the credit he's due.

      It was Senator Stevens ("bridge to nowhere, Alaska") who explained the internet as a collection of pneumatic tubes (he probably remembers shopping in old department stores, which is about when his dementia set in).

      SO, if you're going to insult our glorious leaders, at least get it right and pick the correct one.

  2. This is great by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now, we don't have to worry about the tubes getting clogged. Because there is a backup now. 2 means two tubes, right?