{"id":2354,"date":"2014-09-18T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:59:41","slug":"internet2-arrives-at-swarthmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2014\/09\/18\/internet2-arrives-at-swarthmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet2 Arrives at Swarthmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2356\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/swarthmoreits\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2356 size-medium\" title=\"Larger pipes at Swarthmore\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LEGO_tubes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Larger pipes at Swarthmore\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LEGO_tubes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LEGO_tubes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LEGO_tubes-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LEGO_tubes-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LEGO_tubes.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larger pipes at Swarthmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Swarthmore ITS is pleased to announce a major network connection speed upgrade to Internet2, a blazing-fast network designed for research and education that connects schools, labs, and industry partners. \u00a0Internet2 allows faculty, staff, and students at Swarthmore to easily share large data files with collaborators at other institutions. \u00a0It also provides high speed connections to Internet2 business members such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Amazon Web Services &#8212; things you\u2019re probably already using here! \u00a0Your campus technologies are already taking advantage of these higher speeds.<\/p>\n<p>We have a 1Gbit\/s connection. About 40% of our normal Internet traffic now flows through Internet2. \u00a0In addition to speeding those transfers, offloading the traffic to Internet2 means that our existing Internet connection is also quicker, since the network load is now shared.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the Help Desk or your Academic Technologist for more information on how Internet2 could benefit you here at the College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarthmore ITS is pleased to announce a major network connection speed upgrade to Internet2, a blazing-fast network designed for research and education that connects schools, labs, and industry partners. \u00a0Internet2 allows faculty, staff, and students at Swarthmore to easily share large data files with collaborators at other institutions. \u00a0It also provides high speed connections to Internet2 business members such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Amazon Web Services &#8212; things you\u2019re probably already using here! \u00a0Your campus technologies are already taking advantage of these higher speeds. We have a 1Gbit\/s connection. About 40% of our normal Internet traffic now flows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2014\/09\/18\/internet2-arrives-at-swarthmore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet2 Arrives at Swarthmore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,113,108,114],"tags":[155,156,157],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-facultystaff","category-network","category-students","tag-bandwidth","tag-internet2","tag-network-2","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-BY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}