It’s an important development because the network serves a critical niche in the national broadband infrastructure and underpins high-capacity and advanced services.
Internet2’s next-generation hardware includes 12,000 miles of new single-mode ultra optical fiber across the U.S., along with power- and space-saving optical and routing equipment that is the equivalent of going from two (or more) college dorm refrigerators to a handful of medium pizza boxes at each site.
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