Software-Defined Networking Opens Innovation Channels for Higher Education

The goal of a new higher education pilot is to pressure vendors to make their technology more interoperable and programmable, and find out what it will take to build a next-generation academic network.

by Tanya Roscorla

Full Story: http://www.centerdigitaled.com/higher-ed/Software-Defined-Networking-Higher-Education.html

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Perhaps a better description of the story below… big topic. Too bad that the map on the page does not indicate Missoula as a red dot (AL2S connector location), and we should have been there.

Matt

Matt Riley, CIO
University of Montana

Internet2 Implements First Large-scale Deployment of ONOS in Live Network

Internet2, the Open source SDN Network Operating System (ONOS) community, and the Internet2 NOC at Indiana University today announced they have actively deployed ONOS on Internet2’s nationwide research and education (R&E) network. Five higher education institutions —Duke University, Florida International University, the Indiana GigaPoP, MAX and the University of Maryland – College Park, and the University of Utah—are connected to a virtual slice of the Internet2 nation-wide network that is piloting this next-generation advanced network technology.

by Glenn Lipscomb

http://www.internet2.edu/news/detail/8664/