We looked at a variety of Internet backbone routers. The Juniper Networks routers will play a vital part in improving the communications between the various European research institutes.
Research is vital for the development of all aspects of society, both technical and human.
The new IP network, to be named G ANT, is being developed with the financial support of the European Commission on behalf of the European university networks and heralds a migration away from deploying ATM at the core. TEN-155 currently connects 20 national and regional research networks throughout Europe. Firstly, there will be a Standard best effort IP service with high-speed backbone and access capacity. A Premium IP service will provide higher performance guarantees than the Standard IP service. Finally a Guaranteed Capacity IP service will fully utilise Juniper Networks IP QoS and MPLS traffic engineering capabilities to provide a best of breed, end to end managed bandwidth service.