University of California, Davis Selects Bay Networks Equipment for Internet2 Efforts
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1998--
Nationally Recognized University to Deploy Bay Networks Routers
in Distributed GigaPOP Architecture
Bay Networks(R) Inc. (NYSE:BAY) today announced that the University of California, Davis will use seven Backbone Link Node (BLN(R)) routers to build a high performance network backbone to support its participation in the Internet2 and California Research and Education Network (CalREN-2) initiatives.
As one of the premier research institutions in the United States, UC Davis views its network as an invaluable strategic resource. The university's focus on research led to its participation in the Internet2 and CalREN-2 initiatives which are designed to improve communication between researchers and scientists by enabling electronic collaboration.
Internet2 is a high-speed, next generation Internet being designed and implemented nationwide by 122 universities with support of the U.S. government and leading high-tech companies such as Bay Networks.
CalREN-2 will link California's universities and allow UC Davis to share clinical images for teaching, research and clinical care in human and veterinary medicine, while enabling a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) for transmitting high-resolution digital images such as x-rays or ultrasounds. In addition, UC Davis plans to use CalREN-2 as part of a project for real-time analysis of the national security decision-making process.
Rather than build a traditional "GigaPOP" using a single router as the connection to the Internet2, CalREN-2 elected to create "Giga-nodes" to build a distributed GigaPOP that balances the Internet2 traffic flows.
UC Davis is unique in extending this approach for the campus CalREN-2 connection to balance the traffic flow into the campus backbone across four routers, alleviating potential slowdowns and allowing the university to take full advantage of the high-bandwidth OC-12 connection (622 Mbps).
About the BN Router
Bay Networks' award winning, industrial strength Backbone Link Node (BLN(R)) and Backbone Concentrator Node (BCN(R)) products are multiprotocol routers designed to satisfy the high performance and availability requirements of the most demanding mission-critical backbone internetworks.
The BN products feature a symmetric multiprocessor architecture that uses multiple MC68040- or MC68060-based Fast Routing Engine (FRE) processors, multiple dual Power PC microprocessor-based ATM Routing Engine (ARE) processor modules, and a 1 Gbps Parallel Packet Express (PPX) to deliver industry-leading performance and availability.
Configured with BayRS software, the BLN and BCN routers provide multiprotocol routing and bridging, to maximize connectivity and interoperability in multivendor, multiprotocol environments. Comprehensive hardware and software redundancy features provide complete fault resiliency, while dynamic reconfiguration and hot-swap features allow on-line changes in hardware and software configurations.
About Internet2
Announced in October 1996, Internet2 was developed to facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment, operation and technology transfer of advanced, network-based applications and network services to further U.S. leadership in research and higher education and accelerate the availability of new services and applications on the Internet.
The Internet2 is bringing focus, energy and resources to the development of a new family of advanced applications to meet emerging academic requirements in research, teaching and learning. The Internet2 homepage is located at internet2.edu. Bay Networks -- Where Information Flows(TM).
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