Making History at SC18: Production Traffic Passes Through First 400 Gigabit Ethernet Metro Link in Texas
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SCinet, the dedicated high-capacity network infrastructure supporting the SC Conference, today confirmed that it achieved a new milestone in successfully passing production traffic from national and international networks to Dallas using a single, 400 gigabit Ethernet link over metro distances of approximately 6 miles. DataBank, Internet2, Juniper Networks, Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN) and Pacific Wave contributed to the success of this project, the first such occurrence for an advanced research and education network.
See the complete press release from SCinet.
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