This piece of news is quite substantial :
"University of Pennsylvania Upgrades Campus Building
Networks With High-Speed 3Com Systems"
3Com Gigabit and Layer 3 Switches Provide Ivy League University with Stable, High-Performance Environment for Leading-Edge Academic and Internet Applications
3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS - news) today announced that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), the first university founded in America, is upgrading PennNet, its 200-building campus network, using advanced 3Com® systems. The 40,000-user, multimillion dollar network upgrade when completed will include 150 3Com next-generation CoreBuilder® 9000 enterprise switches and CoreBuilder 3500 Layer 3 switches. Presently, 10 CoreBuilder 3500 systems are providing Fast Ethernet backbones in campus buildings in which 3Com SuperStack® II Ethernet switches have the capabilities to deliver 10/100
megabits per second (Mbps) links to networked desktops. The university is also using Total Control® multiservice access platforms for remote connectivity for 15,000 off-campus users. As the information delivery vehicle for all of the university's academic, administrative and research activities, the high-speed 3Com infrastructure provides the stable, high-performance environment needed to deliver premium quality academic and research services and applications.
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