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Archived News Stories and Releases: 1998 - 2013
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Building ESnet’s New Architecture to Support Next-Generation DOE Science
BERKELEY, Calif. ‑ The U. S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), which supports the large-scale science and large-scale collaborations of DOE’s Office of Science, has taken the first steps to implement a new network architecture that will increase the reliability and dramatically boost the bandwidth available to the DOE research community. The new architecture is… Read More
ESnet to Increase Network Performance, Reliability with Metropolitan Area Networks
BERKELEY, CA. – Responding to the increasingly data-intensive demands of the scientific community, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is implementing a new architecture of connected Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). ESnet, which is managed by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is a high-speed network serving thousands of DOE scientists and… Read More
ESnet Announces Contract to Upgrade Connectivity to Brookhaven, Oak Ridge National Labs
DENVER, September 27, 2004 — Qwest Communications International Inc. will upgrade network connectivity into two U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites on the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). Qwest’s continued work on ESnet is part of a seven-year contract, which began in 2000 and has a potential value of more than $80 million. Under the contract, Qwest will increase ESnet’s bandwidth by… Read More
HPCwire Interviews New ESnet Manager Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston, a distinguished networking and computing researcher, was recently named Manager of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), a leading-edge, high-bandwidth network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science. ESnet is managed by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. ESnet is used by thousands of scientists and researchers worldwide, and provides a high-end… Read More
Bill Johnston Named New ESnet Manager
William E. “Bill,” Johnston, an LBNL senior scientist who has worked in the fields of networking and high-speed distributed computing since the creation of the Internet, was appointed this week as the project manager for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), effective immediately. ESnet is a high-speed network serving thousands of Department of Energy scientists and collaborators worldwide. Read More
ESnet Leaps Ahead by Two Generations, Upgrades Backbone to 10 Gbps
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has just completed an upgrade to 2.5gigabits (billions of bits or Gbps) per second and 10Gbps in the highest speed portion of the network. Typically, a new generation of data communications bandwidth consists of a fourfold increase in performance. ESnet’s new 10Gbps… Read More
ESnet Teams with Juniper Networks to Put IPv6 Into Production Alongside IPv4
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) recently teamed with Juniper Networks to become one of the very first networks to run both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously on a large-scale production network connecting hundreds of thousands of scientific researchers around the world. The successful rollout of the next generation Internet Protocol, known at IPv6, in parallel with the… Read More
ESnet Awards Qwest $50 Million Contract to Support DOE's Scientific Communications Network
The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (Esnet) this week announced that it has awarded a $50 million contract to Qwest Communications International Inc. to support ESnet for up to seven years. Under the contract, Qwest will provide performance levels up to a terabit (one million megabits/second) network by the year 2005, offering 500 times the highest speed available in the… Read More
ESnet Leading the Way in Implementing Next Generation of Internet Protocol
A few years from now, the Internet could become a victim of its own success. Its dramatic growth -- often cited as 15 percent growth per month in number of users connected and as much as a factor of 10 growth per year in Internet backbone bandwidth required to support them — could overburden the current infrastructure, resulting in networks held together with cyber baling wire and virtual glue. Read More
New Technology Demonstrates Priority Service for Internet Traffic between Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne National Labs
BERKELEY, Calif. (April 14, 1998) - Scientists at two Department of Energy national laboratories have successfully marked selected Internet traffic for priority service over unmarked, lower-priority traffic in a cross-country demonstration. This demonstration is a key milestone in the development of a broad set of capabilities called “Differentiated Services” which are required for the… Read More
