internet 2 out now..... detail analysis

source: http://www.internet2.edu/network/

CHARACTERISTICS:

The new Internet2 Network will be deployed nationally over a 13,000-miles dedicated fiber optical backbone, providing dynamic and static wavelength services along with existing enhanced IP capabilities.

• Advantage of economies of scale, leveraging Level 3's next-generation optical infrastructure and capital investments
• Extends capacity upgrades and much greater bandwidth flexibility through Infinera's leading-edge optical platform and Ciena's multiservice optical switch capabilities
• Short-term and long-term dedicated circuits for individual and institutional capacity needs
• Dynamic circuit provisioning within seconds and, in the future, will provide advance reservations of circuits to support an even broader range of applications and research
• Static wave provisioning in 50 megabits per second (Mbps) increment sub-wavelength services to multiple 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) wavelengths to allow connectors to more efficiently allocate bandwidth
• Dense wavelength division multiplexing capabilities to build separate logical networks over the same fiber facility

Initial Deployment: 100 Gbps of capacity along the entire network footprint

Future Capacity: Potential migration to 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps interfaces

Wavelength Scalability: Unlimited availability of additional wavelengths without the requirement for large capital expenditures

Reliability: Carrier-class standard agreement for the underlying network infrastructure

Flexibility: Support for sub-wavelength (50 Mbps increments) dynamic provisioning across every wave on the network backbone for better bandwidth allocation

Community Control: Provisioning and switching of wavelengths and subchannels

Internet2's agreement with Level 3 allows the community to have complete control of the entire network infrastructure without having to take on the burdens and costs of maintaining the underlying fiber and related facilities. In essence, Internet2 members have the advantages of ownership without the costs and can implement faster services or new technologies when needed, independent of the carrier. At the same time, Level 3 maintains responsibility for monitoring the optical infrastructure to provide carrier-class reliability that supports the research and education community’s critical work.

Internet2 Engineering and Community Support:

• Control Plane aspects of dynamic provisioning, supported by Mid-Atlantic Crossroads through the NSF DRAGON project and by the Internet2 HOPI project
• Application and Advanced Services Support, targeting key applications for the research community, such as eVLBI, as well as telemedicine
• Engineering, Monitoring, and Management, supported by the Global Network Operations Center (NOC) at Indiana University
• Internet2 Observatory will be expanded to enable data collection at all layers, with datasets available to network researchers; also, support for equipment colocation in optical nodes