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My October blog gave an update on the implementation of SURF’s new optical layer. In 2017, we carried out a few migrations, and almost all the installation work for this. In 2018, we will complete the implementation of the optical layer and get to work on the SURFnet8... Read More »

When I published my previous blog in July, we were hard at work on the preparations for the first SURFnet8 migration. What have we achieved since the summer? And what are our plans for the next few months? I will cover that in this blog. Successful first migration on the... Read More »

In my previous blog post, I described the three phases in the implementation of the optical layer: installation of new equipment, migration to this new equipment and pick-up of the old equipment. We started installing the equipment in late June, with the first migration scheduled... Read More »

Currently our network services use technology provided by Ciena and Juniper. Institutions are connecting their equipment to Ciena Ethernet Service Switches, and internet traffic is being handled by Juniper routers. These switches and routers are located in our data centres and on... Read More »

In traditional network devices, the hardware, operating system and applications are inextricably connected to each other and are often provided by the same supplier. This changes in the wake of innovations in software, automation, orchestration and network function virtualisation... Read More »

In traditional network devices, the hardware, operating system and applications are inextricably connected to each other and are often provided by the same supplier. This changes in the wake of innovations in software, automation, orchestration and network function virtualisation... Read More »

In December 2016, SURFnet and ECI signed a contract for the new optical layer of the SURFnet network. We are working on the next generation of our network, SURFnet8, because the current infrastructure does not offer sufficient flexibility or bandwidth per wavelength for the... Read More »

In traditional network devices, the hardware, operating system and applications are inextricably connected to each other and are often provided by the same supplier. This changes in the wake of innovations in software, automation, orchestration and network function virtualisation... Read More »

In traditional network devices, the hardware, operating system and applications are inextricably connected to each other and are often provided by the same supplier. This changes in the wake of innovations in software, automation and orchestration. We are now moving towards open... Read More »

In traditional network devices, hardware and software are inextricably connected to each other and are often provided by the same supplier. This changes with the advent of software-defined networking (SDN). We are now moving towards open and programmable networks. SDN is a step... Read More »