Current Situation and Prospect of CERNET

Abstract

China Education and Research Network (CERNET) is the first nationwide education and research computer network in China. It has become an important public infrastructure greatly supports China’s high education, science and technology development. CNGI-CERNET2/6IX is the largest and only academic one of the network backbones of CNGI. It is the largest pure IPv6 Internet backbone around the world. CNGI-CERNET2 has become an important infrastructure for promoting the Chinese next-generation Internet strategy. This chapter introduces the development progress of CERNET and CNGI-CERNET2 since 2015.