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Internet2, the high-speed academic and research network that comprises over
190 U.S. universities working with government and industry, recently announced
a collaboration with Juniper Networks in a nationwide upgrade of its Abilene
backbone.
When the upgrade is complete, Abilene will replace its Cisco GSR routers with
eleven of Juniper's new T640 Internet Routing Nodes, which are among the largest
and fastest routers available today. Aside from seamless multi-terabit scaling,
the T640s offer IPv6 hardware forwarding. (IPv6 is the next generation for TCP/IP
and offers vastly expanded numbers of network addresses.)
For more details on the Abilene upgrade, see "Internet2 Abilene Network
to Partner with Juniper Networks..." at
http://archives.internet2.edu/guest/archives/I2-NEWS/log200204/msg00003.html
For more information on Internet2, see the organization's website at http://www.internet2.edu