Recipients of the Inclusivity Initiative Scholarships from the 2018 Technology Exchange meeting share their experience attending their first Internet2 event.

The recent “Enabling Trustworthy Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Science” workshop shed light on the importance of articulating challenges between research computing and information security groups, and identitying successes and lessons learned.

Learn more about a new version of our Cloud Connect Portal (OESS 2.01) that is available with Google GCP Dedicated Interconnect support. 

The Network Architecture, Operations and Policy Program Advisory Group created a Next Generation Infrastructure Working Group to provide input and feedback on the creation of service models.

Internet2 is pleased to announce that we are now accepting request for proposals for the Exploring Clouds for Acceleration of Science (E-CAS) project, in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Internet2 has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for optical network equipment and services. The RFP is for a project focused on modernizing, optimizing, and "right sizing" the system architecture.

View a recent Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security webinar, which gives you a brief overview of the risks to network routing within the R & E community.

After hitting a new record of 207+ petabytes of data moved in October, Internet2 continues to see continuous and substantial growth across all types of data it carries for the Research and Education Community.

How many new InCommon participants are there since September? How many Research & Scholarship Category providers are there? Find out these and other InCommon fun facts!

Are you new to the InCommon Federation or identity management in general? Or are you focused on operations and need some hands-on training? Please plan to attend InCommon BaseCAMP, August 13-15, 2019, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

On December 14, 2018, the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation will become mandatory for all Federation participants. This is a significant milestone.

The first Campus Success Program involved 10 campuses working together to adopt one or more components of the Internet2 TIER software and services.

InCommon will offer the Collaboration Success Partners program for 2019 and invites all organizations interested in adopting the InCommon Trusted Access Platform (formerly known as TIER) to consider joining.

InCommon Certificate Subscribers, you may have read that Comodo is rebranding itself as Sectigo. You may wonder how this might affect you. In short: There is nothing you need to do right now.

Internet2 has completed requirements to join Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security supported by the Internet Society.

A preliminary report previewed at TechEX recommends that Internet2 establish a plan to move NET+ and Cloud services out of the R&E routing instance and combine them with the TR-CPS routes in a new service called Cloud Exchange.

A TechEx 18 break-out discussion on Next Generation Infrastructure led to a call for regional workshops, and a Security break-out session recommended a shift for Network Operators.

By early December, Internet2 will release an RFP for the refresh of its optical line system and related components. 

At TechEx, a multi-organization working group presented its results on the community's exploration of Juniper node-slicing. These efforts indicated that the technology should be further explored to facilitate infrastructure sharing, particularly in cases where multiple, legacy Juniper chassis units are collocated.