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Internet2 network infrastructure has announced at its fall meeting that it had completed a major upgrade to its national infrastructure, which now operates at 100Gbps and allows researchers to provision their own dedicated links for limited periods of time.
The Internet2 network connects more than 200 member universities to aid in research and education. As part of the upgrade, each segment of the network now features a set of ten 10-Gbps links, each running on a separate wavelength of light, for a total of 100 Gbps of bandwidth. What's more, Internet2's developers say they can scale each segment to handle up to 100 wavelengths in the future, for another tenfold increase in the network's capacity
At its Oct. 9 meeting, the group introduced a new Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) feature, which will allow researchers to set up dedicated, 10-Gbps point-to-point connections for the short-term transfer of data on demand. This feature will be available to Internet2 member universities beginning in January.
In a demonstration of this new DCN feature at the organization's fall meeting, physicist Carl Lundstedt of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) set up a 10 Gbps dedicated circuit between the UNL campus and Fermilab, a research facility in Batavia, Ill. Using this dedicated connection, Lundstedt was able to transfer one-third of a terabyte of information in just five minutes--a result that will help Lundstedt and his colleagues significantly with their particle-acceleration research.
Rick Summerhill, Internet2's chief technology officer, compared the network's new DCN feature to a utility that can be tapped as necessary.
"Just like you switch on a light or turn on a water tap, we envision a future where researchers, scientists, faculty, artists, [and so on] will be able to ‘turn on' a high-capacity network connection when, and where, they need it," he said.
