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China is a Big place.
Bay Networks Inc., (NYSE:BAY) supporting its Adaptive Networking
Strategy, today announced that the Ministry of Power in China, will deploy a
leading edge backbone solution as part of the China Electric Power Network.
Planned over a two-year period this is a significant win for Bay Networks
following intense competition from six other networking vendors. Bay
Networks China joined with key partner Anixter Asia Pacific to provide the
winning solution for the Ministry of Power.
With over 2,000 Local Area Networks and 2 million plus employees the
Ministry of Power in China represents one of the largest sites for power
generation in the world. The networking challenge was to design and build a
high speed network infrastructure that harnesses the power of emerging
network technologies and support distributed computing to over thirty-four
branches within two years. The key requirements being to link the critical
networks to a central core backbone immediately with products that were
scalable for a countrywide office automated network in the future.
"With the implementation of our advanced campus routers we designed this
solution with WAN cost reduction in mind. Built upon a symmetrical
multi-processing architecture, this solution clearly illustrates a multitasking
operating system, allowing for non-stop operation," said Juber Chu, area
director for Greater China. "As traffic is intended to increase over a two year
period it is prudent for network managers to find ways of accommodating it
without spending excessive amounts of money, and our cost-effective, high
performance products clearly provided the solution," he added.
Through Bay Networks adaptive networking strategy, the Ministry of Power
network was architected to provide key elements that contain the inherent
intelligence necessary for long term network evolution without disruption. "The
Ministry of Power in China planned their new network based on future
requirements, thus the flexibility and scalability of today's networking products
became critical. Specifically, the routers needed to detect and adapt to changes
in network traffic types, volumes and requirements both today and tomorrow,"
said Steve Wood, vice president for Asia Pacific Operations. "Our flexible
approach in this instance provided better customer service and lower costs,
while also offering superior functionality within our routing technology
solutions," added Mr. Wood.
About Bay Networks Routing Technology
Bay Networks family of routing products illustrates a design philosophy that
favors distributed architectures over centralized ones. Not only is the hardware
architecture distributed, the software architecture is too. Bay Networks Routing
Services (BayRS(TM)) deals with the challenges of today's networks in the
wide area. BayRS is designed to optimize the use of expensive intersite
bandwidth, and with elaborate filtering and prioritization schemes allow
complete control over what gets sent throughout the network. Bay Networks
routing products can provide an effective line rate higher than the real rate.
With distributed functionality across the various modules, the router is able to
adapt to changing network conditions, as well as hardware and software
failures while maximizing performance. This allows for fully distributed
routing and bridging services across all processors within the system. In
addition, this eliminates the need for a central supervisory processor dedicated
to redirection services.
About Bay Networks
Bay Networks provides solutions that transition today's complex networks to
the IP optimized networks of tomorrow, through Adaptive Networking. Bay
Networks' products -- including frame and ATM switches, routers, shared
media, remote and Internet access solutions, IP services and network
management applications -- meet the connectivity needs of corporate
enterprises and Internet and telecommunications service providers.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Bay Networks markets and supports
its products around the world, providing 7x24 coverage.
In Asia, Bay Networks sells its range of products through its distributors and
resellers channels. Bay Networks has representative offices in Australia,
China, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
Taiwan, and Thailand. For further information, visit Bay Networks at:
baynetworks.com .
This release, other than historical financial information, may consist of
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These
statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. For
instance, factors that could cause results to differ from future events include the
rate of adoption of new technology, competitive pricing actions and marketing
programs, among others. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Bay
Networks with the S.E.C., specifically the most recent reports on Forms 10-K
and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors which could cause actual
results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
Bay Networks is a registered trademark and BayRS is a trademark of Bay
Networks, Inc. Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective holders.
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CONTACT: Bay Networks, Inc.
Kellie DiNaro, 408/495-3037
kdinaro@baynetworks.com
or
Bay Networks Asia Pacific.
Annette MacDougall, 65-323-3522
amacdougall@baynetworks.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS UTILITIES
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET PRODUCT
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