LEARN selects Nokia to deploy new high-capacity network to foster research and education in Texas

Nokia today announced its collaboration with The Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN), the statewide Research and Education Network for the state of Texas, to upgrade LEARN’s existing packet platform. The collaboration is part of LEARN’s strategic NextGen Network initiative, which aims to replace routers across the LEARN backbone and modernize the existing statewide network, significantly advancing the network’s infrastructure and the ability to serve its members.

Nokia’s solution will enhance the levels of scalability, security, and reliability over a 400GE backbone, as part of a broad project redesign led by LEARN to serve its more than 300 organizations that directly or indirectly rely upon its network. The LEARN network spans over 3,200 fiber route miles, serving over 300 direct and affiliate member organizations throughout Texas, including public and private higher education institutions, colleges, and K–12 public schools.

The enhanced IP/MPLS core network from Nokia delivers the performance, scale, and speed that are required to support cloud-hosted applications, compute-intensive processing, and the exchange of massive data sets required by LEARN Member Institutions.