Internet2 worked in partnership with Ciena to deploy America's first nationwide 100G network, which delivers 100G connectivity for individual customers, and total capacity of 8.8 terabits-more than twice the capacity available from competing solutions.

Last month when Internet2 announced that it was using Ciena?s 100G coherent optical solution to built out its national network backbone that would connect more than 200,000 community anchor institutions, there was one number that caught everyone?s attention.   8.8Tbps -- as in Terabits.   Bandwidth…

…four of them are publicly named (Verizon, Mobily, SEA-ME-WE4 and Internet2).  So it’s always good to have a new name to add to your public customer list, and Internet2 is just that.  Last week we announced that Internet2 would be deploying Ciena 100G technology across its network that…

…Spring 2011 Internet2 Member Meeting going on this week in Virginia (See Internet2 shows what 8.8Tbps looks like).  The event brings together Internet2 members from around the U.S. and gives them a view to new and ongoing work around the Internet2 network.  And with Internet2 recently announcing…

…has its first coast-to-coast transcontinental 100G network thanks to progress from Internet2 and ESnet with the deployment of their national 100G networks.  Using coherent 100G technology from Ciena, Internet2 and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) announced…

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, and Internet2 today announced a partnership on a 100G national network in support of the U.S. Unified Community Anchor Network (U.S. UCAN) project. Internet2 is significantly upgrading its national backbone network through a federal stimulus…

…100G would be deployed by service providers.  Even with Verizon?s previous European deployment and recent Ciena 100G wins with the likes of Internet2, Mobily and SEA-ME-WE4, for some people there hadn?t yet been that big news that overwhelmingly said "100G is real today." I think its safe to say…

Internet2 and Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) today announced a partnership to deploy Ciena’s CoreDirector® Multiservice Switch in the new Internet2 nationwide advanced research and education network. Ciena also becomes an Internet2 Corporate Partner, the highest level partnership offered…

…100GbE link between Paris and Frankfurt, and Internet2 has announced the ongoing deployment of a 8.8Tbps total capacity network with at least one eye on the need for 100GbE links between research institutions (see Chris Robb’s nice post on the Internet2 blog here). While I consider myself relatively…

…The Internet2 community gathered last week in Arlington, Virginia for its annual spring members meeting. This year, the theme of the meeting was “Building the next innovation platform together”. The research and education community has always embraced open collaboration and Internet2 is now…