Intenet2 Backbone Upgrades

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... ;)

But Why?

[ThOr101]

Without napster, do we really need all that bandwidth anymore? ;-)

What is it ?

[Anonymous Coward]

And I thought I was using Internet3 (www) already ? Is internet2 (ww) and internet1 (w) .. gosh !!! Damn

Intenet2? Whats that...

[kramerj]

Slashdot needs a speel cheeker...

Kramer

Start typing those proposals now!

[Saint Aardvark]

"...and this is why I think it is very important to study the effects, upon international policy-making by semi-marginalized non-governmental stakeholders, of three-day Quake matches. I thank the comittee for their time."

Whoops! sorry....

[nochops]

"Designed for deterministic performance with 640-Gbps font-panel throughput and 1,280-Gbps rear-panel throughput"

That's a lot of bandwidth killed if someone trips on the power cord.

Re:But Why?

[Komarosu]

Even with napster, u will still try to download a file from someone, and they will be on 56k :)

Internet.... There are two???

[kingharrison]

The internet? that thing still around?
-Homer

Rescursive Obligation?

[loply]

Here comes the obligatory "Here comes the obligatory 'Imagine the ping times' post" post. Recursive/nested obligatory posting. Hmm.

Re:Internet.... There are two???

[discstickers]

"They have the Internet on computers now?"

Internet2 is gooooood ^_^

[durfal]

Damn i wish i could get a line hooked up somewhere along the line, i think its a great way to pick up chicks u know: "Wanna go to my place, i have such low ping times ^_^"

[serious mode]I think this is a great thing for university's across the globe, so that information can exchange information fast again without being slowed down by everyone playing quake at the school computers...oh ok quake will always slow it down a little but on a larger scale the speed quakes takes is not that big now anymore ;)[/serious mode]

Internet2 0wnz

[Tom7]

Yes, we are very happy with how fast our Quake 3 Arena games are...

Re:Microsoft & Internet2

[Captain Large Face]

I could hit 1meg a second to windowsupdate.microsoft.com

That must be fantastic -- imagine having to only spend a couple of hours downloading security updates.

intenet?

[CamelTrader]

c'mon, mind your R's guys.

Geees

[ltjohhed]

What is this?!
A univeristy network that is ment for studying and not pr0n trading ? Outrageous!

I wonder if Joe Taxpayer likes the idea that his pennies on the dollar toward education go for through bandwidth...

Ohh, I'd be more than happy if i knew my tax money went to pr0n/gaming bandwith!

Re:ping times?

[matthew.thompson]

You're welcome.

I didn't realise it was a joke as I assumed it was penned by an American.

If you are an American you should read that as a compliment.

If any other Americans are reading then you should read this as a joke.

Did Al Gore invent the Internet2 also?

[dirvish]

If not maybe the universities should find out if he can help them with it. He probably isn't too busy these days.

Re:Formal ways to be "nice" on the network

[threephaseboy]

but most users of file-sharing apps are capable of respecting the network and making a compromise.

HAHAHAH! You crack me up.

Re:But Why?

[nirvanafreek]

I've recently been working for a client developing software for monitoring highspeed connections, when he mentioned his recent exposure to 10Gb/s (yes that's 10 gigabits/sec) backbones, a team member asked what that much bandwidth would be used for. He responded with one short word "Porn"