Internet2 Turns 10 and Upgrades

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 5, 2006 @04:11AM 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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I'll pass... by Rastignac · 2006-12-05 04:18 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm waiting for Internet3 before upgrading. ;)

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Re:Internet2 Primer Needed by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-05 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny

It lets college students quickly transfer MP3 files to other Abilene network members.

I presume there might be other uses too. Like videos, I guess.