Pat, I think it is continuation of the following :California's
Hacienda La Puente Unified School
District Creates "Classroom Without Walls" using
VIVID Switched Routing Solution for Hi-Tech
Broadcast Video Applications
VIVID Provides High Quality Video Conferencing and Multimedia
Capabilities to Enhance Hacienda's Cutting-Edge Educational Programs
Herndon, VA, September 4, 1996 -- Newbridge Networks today
announced Hacienda La Puente Unified School District in California has
selected the Newbridge VIVID switched routing solution to run
state-of-the-art video and multimedia applications across its entire learning
enterprise. The Hacienda network also incorporates Newbridge 36150
MainStreet ATMnet Access Switches in the backbone. The school district
includes 40 primary sites and an additional seven sites supporting
correctional education in Los Angeles County.
Hacienda has been highly innovative in adopting new technologies to
enhance its wide range of educational services. The school district, which
began deploying Ethernet local area networks (LANs) for administration
purposes in 1987, is now working towards having a network that links all
of its sites with a fully meshed Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
fabric. Hacienda has completed the first phase of implementation with
Newbridge VIVID equipment connecting more than 1,000 workstations at
Workman High School, Hacienda's first major campus-wide broadband
networking initiative, and throughout the various administrative sites
within the district. Hacienda expects to deploy an additional 200
workstations at Workman High School by the Spring of 1997.
"As students in California can now choose which school they'll attend,
more and more school districts are initiating new programs and facilities to
attract pupils. That's one of the main reasons for putting ATM to work in
the classroom -- so students can take advantage of video and multimedia
applications," said Michael Droe, Director of Network and Computer
Services, for Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. "Our decision to
go with Newbridge Networks was based on their price/performance and
superior customer support. Additionally, Newbridge Networks had a
really good understanding internally of our requirements and was the only
company, of the many we evaluated, who could deliver a switched routing
solution."
Based on the ATM Forum's evolving Multiprotocol Over ATM (MPOA)
specification, the VIVID switched routing architecture is ideally suited to
the environment set up at Hacienda's Workman High School. VIVID
builds routing intelligence into a switching network which has significantly
fewer network hops, making the network extremely efficient when running
delay-sensitive video and multimedia applications. In a traditional routing
environment, the router analyzes every packet, which causes congestion
and slows down the transmission of video traffic. With a switched routing
network the router determines the path of transmission and then aside until
either the connection is torn down and needs to be re-established, or
another protocol is introduced into the stream.
Hacienda plans to implement other campus networks throughout the
district based on the highly successful Workman High School model. The
most intensive traffic generated by the Workman students is video and
multimedia applications. Currently there are several video applications
deployed at the school, including:
Real-time transport of video between the school's broadcast
journalism news studio and a cable access channel. This allows
the program to be transported real-time between the on-campus
news studio and the cable access channel and then broadcast live
to the community.
Desktop-to-desktop or desktop-to-classroom video conferencing
which supports interactive distance learning applications, allowing
multiple classrooms to be linked to one instructor or a group of
instructors or a group of students. It also supports staff
development activities and collaborative student projects.
Video-on-demand/video retrieval, which provides on-line access
to full motion video to support research projects, classroom
learning experiences, live digital event recording, staff
development activities, and student projects such as the broadcast
journalism program.
"Hacienda's implementation is a perfect example of the benefits a switched
routing architecture can provide to users requiring high quality,
cost-effective video conferencing capabilities," said Marc Pfeiffer, Director
of VIVID Product Marketing for Newbridge Networks. "The flexibility
and scalability of the VIVID switched router make it an ideal solution for a
multitude of networking needs as it is highly effective in managing data
and video traffic and allows for easy expansion as user demands for higher
bandwidth increase."
The Hacienda La Puente Unified School District network consists of six
Newbridge 36150 MainStreet ATMnet Access Switches in the backbone
for transport between sites. The equipment and OC-3 connections are
leased from GTE as part of its service offering. The Workman High
School campus and administrative facilities are equipped with a VIVID
System Manager and Route Server, five VIVID ATM Workgroup
Switches and 24 VIVID Yellow Ridge Ethernet switches for access to the
network for traffic originating on Ethernet segments.
The VIVID switched routing solution provides the elements needed to
achieve high-quality video conferencing capabilities over a network,
including MPEG compression, quality of service guarantees and
bandwidth. The VIVID architecture incorporates routing and bridging
capabilities in a highly integrated switched routing solution, providing
cost-effective performance and almost unlimited scalability. It increases
network performance and reliability and eliminates routing bottlenecks.
Newbridge Networks (www.newbridge.com) is the global leader in ATM
and TDM networking systems, according to independent research. The
company designs, manufactures and services a comprehensive family of
networking products and systems that delivers the power of multimedia
communications to organizations in more than 100 countries throughout
the world. Newbridge products are the choice of an expanding range of
customers which includes most of the world's 200 largest
telecommunications service providers, and over 10,000 corporations,
government organizations, and other institutions. The company has
facilities throughout Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe,
Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia.
Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common
shares are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NN) and
on The Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada.
Also the following press releases should give us some idea about the first and one of the best leyer 3 solution. Thay are also a good tests for this product:
:Analog Devices Selects Newbridge Networks VIVID
Switched Routing Solution
Robust standards-based solution speeds manufacturing process by
boosting network performance and reliability
Herndon, VA, March 17, 1997 -- Newbridge Networks today announced
that Analog Devices, a leading manufacturer of high performance
microcontroller chips, has selected the Newbridge VIVID switched routing
solution for its network in Santa Clara, California which supports the
company's west coast product design and manufacturing operations.
Analog Devices is currently migrating from a traditional router-based
backbone infrastructure to the VIVID switched routing architecture to meet
its requirements for scalability and manageability.
"As the company continues to experience rapid growth, we recognize the
need for a highly efficient networking infrastructure that will integrate all
business units and easily support new applications," said Ed Bourget,
Chief Network Officer at Analog Devices. "The VIVID switched routing
solution provides the reliability, flexibility and manageability we need. We
quickly determined that the VIVID system was the best networking
solution to help us reach our goal of becoming a two billion dollar
company by the year 2000."
Realizing the existing networking infrastructure could no longer meet
performance objectives due to increased user demands, Analog Devices
evaluated alternative network product offerings. The company selected the
VIVID switched routing system for its California facility because it is the
only solution that combines the ability to seamlessly interoperate with
Analog Devices' legacy networking environment with the performance of
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). The VIVID system also provides the
reliability needed to meet the critical up-time requirements of Analog
Devices' manufacturing and design network.
The VIVID switched routing solution enables Analog Devices' design
engineers in Santa Clara to easily transfer bandwidth-intensive Computer
Aided Design/Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) files. To meet Analog Devices'
aggressive production cycles, the network must be operational 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, making network reliability and performance a key
issue for the company and its customers. Analog Devices' product
development schedules cannot tolerate network down-time. A one-hour
interruption in the production cycle can result in a loss of as much as one
million dollars.
"Large, Global 2000 companies rely heavily on networking technology to
maintain a competitive edge," said Tom Bain of The META Group, a
leading information technology consulting firm. "As user demands on the
networking infrastructure increase, network professionals are turning to
new approaches that better serve their needs. Integrated routing/switching
solutions are clearly the next step in the local area network architecture
evolution."
"We are pleased to have been selected by Analog Devices to provide a
much needed solution that will reduce congestion and simplify network
management," said Eric Andrews, Assistant Vice President of VIVID
Product Marketing at Newbridge Networks. "The switching performance
and scalability of ATM combined with the intelligence of Layer 3 routing,
provides Analog Devices with a powerful internetworking solution that is
completely interoperable with the company's existing LAN desktops.
Superior performance and reliability, combined with the unparalleled speed
and bandwidth of ATM, will help Analog Devices significantly enhance its
manufacturing cycles by eliminating network down-time."
Analog Devices has installed a full VIVID switched routing system,
including two Workgroup Switches, 10 Ethernet Yellow Ridge edge
devices, a VIVID Route Server and a VIVID System Manager at its
manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, California which currently supports
approximately 300 users.
The VIVID switched routing system is a powerful solution for meeting the
demands of today's LAN internetworking environments. The VIVID
system, based on the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol Over ATM (MPOA)
specification, eliminates the performance bottlenecks and management
complexity of conventional router network designs. With its highly
scalable, wire-speed routing capacity, the VIVID switched routing solution
is ideal for meeting the performance requirements of high-speed LAN,
multimedia, and intranet environments. Switched routing also enables
extensive virtual networking capabilities, enabling customers to define
policies for governing user behavior and enhancing application
performance.
With fiscal 1995 sales of US$924 million and US$889 million for the first
three quarters of fiscal 1996, Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of
precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital
signal processing applications. Headquartered in Norwood,
Massachusetts, the company employs approximately 6,900 people
worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California,
North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Newbridge Networks is a global leader in ATM, frame relay and time
division multiplexing (TDM) systems, according to independent research.
The company is a world leader in designing, manufacturing and servicing a
comprehensive family of networking products and systems that delivers
the power of multimedia communications to organizations in more than
100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge products are the choice of
an expanding range of customers which includes the world's 200 largest
telecommunications service providers, and more than 10,000 corporations,
government organizations, and other institutions. The company has
facilities throughout Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, the
Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common
shares are listed for trading on the New York Exchange (NN) in the United
States and on The Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada.
Newbridge VIVID solution polices London's financial district
KANATA, Ontario, February 20, 1997 -- The City of London Police is
installing a high performance IP network using Newbridge Networks
VIVID Switched Routing solution. The network links four sites within
London's financial district, providing a communication infrastructure for
nearly 100 different applications.
For the first time, the City of London Police will be able to develop
powerful new services supporting advanced criminal intelligence
gathering, analysis and dissemination. Other applications include police
command and control, and office and administration tasks.
"We were not looking for a specific technology but for a network that
matched our organizational requirements. Central to this was ease of
network management, which is not achievable with traditional routers,"
said Brian Petty, force communications officer for the City of London
Police. "The VIVID Switched Routing solution allows us to quickly and
effectively implement moves, adds and changes in a predominantly
IP-based network. It also provides us with the bandwidth and access speed
that our users demand."
The network also links to the Police National Network. Smaller sites and
mobile users gain access to the network through 15 Amazon remote access
products from Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), a Newbridge
affiliated company.
"This network has been chosen to take us well into the next century, so its
ability to accommodate future technological and bandwidth requirements is
also a key benefit. The VIVID system's management capabilities also allow
us to manage a large routed IP network with ease," said Brian Petty.
"This network is a good example of how the VIVID Switched Routing
solution is able to increase the flexibility and reduce the cost of ownership
of a large and complex IP network - the two key concerns of network
managers," said Andy Williams, director of product marketing for the
VIVID system at Newbridge Networks.
Each of the four locations will be equipped with a complete VIVID
Switched Routing solution. At the heart of each VIVID solution is an
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching fabric, comprising one or
more VIVID ATM Workgroup Switches. This ATM fabric is the
workhorse of the system, providing high speed forwarding with inherent
quality of service guarantees. VIVID Yellow Ridges are the interface
between the ATM switching fabric and the Ethernet-equipped desktops.
Each Yellow Ridge provides local switching and forwards traffic at wire
speeds to the ATM fabric to remote locations. The VIVID Route Server
provides switched routing, which effectively turns the whole network into
a single distributed router.
Multiple subnets can be created that can span any or all system ports. In
VIVID terminology these are referred to as Routed Virtual Networks
(RVNets). Forwarding between these subnets, the very essence of the
routing, is not performed by a traditional router but by the switches in the
network. This yields the functionality of routing combined with the speed,
low latency and scalability of switching. Additionally, VIVID RVNets
allow network moves and changes to be automated, especially valuable in
the IP environment.
Formed in 1839, the City of London Police has a reputation as a leader in
innovative technology. The force has been responsible for developing a
leading edge closed circuit television (CCTV) system, possibly the most
sophisticated in the world.
Newbridge Networks is a global leader in ATM, frame relay and time
division multiplexing (TDM) networking systems, according to
independent research. The company designs, manufactures and services a
comprehensive family of networking products and systems that delivers
the power of multimedia communications to organisations in more than
100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge products are the choice of
an expanding range of customers which includes the world's 200 largest
telecommunications service providers, and over 10,000 corporations and
government organisations. The company has facilities in Canada, the
United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common
shares are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NN) in the
United States and on The Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada.
Newbridge and logo are registered trademarks and VIVID, Yellow Ridge
and Route Server are trademarks of Newbridge Networks Corporation.
Newbridge End-To-End Solution Chosen
By Erlanger Health System for New,
Industry-Leading Healthcare Network
Erlanger Deploys MPOA-Compliant VIVID Switched Routing Solution to
Improve Patient Care and Reduce Costs
HERNDON, Virginia, January 20, 1998 - Newbridge Networks
today announced that Erlanger Health System, the longest-serving public
medical center in Tennessee, has selected a Newbridger end-to-end
networking solution featuring the VIVIDT switched routing system and
the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpressT 36170 Multiservices
Switch. The Newbridge enterprise solution delivers the network reliability
and routing performance that will help Erlanger improve patient care. It
will substantially reduce Erlanger's costs - by providing community
wellness programs and clinical services to patients via the network - and
improve access to patients' medical records.
Newbridge won this business by teaming with BellSouth, Erlanger's
carrier switched internetworking vendor. BellSouth works closely with
Newbridge Networks on key accounts throughout the nine southeast U.S.
states through its Network Complementary Applications Program
(NCAP).
"We needed to implement a network architecture that would take us well
into the next century," said John Haltom, Erlanger's Network Director.
"We are using a number of bandwidth-intensive applications, including
imaging and desktop video-conferencing at four large health-care centers in
the Chattanooga area. Delivering a high quality of voice, video and data
service to the desktop for our medical staff was one of our most important
considerations. We also required the flexibility to grow the network to
accommodate the needs of our 38 regional health-care centers."
"While evaluating the various networking options available, we determined
that only an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)-based Layer 3 switching
solution could give us the quality of service we need, including the
network flexibility and the ability to handle any kind of network traffic we
could foresee," Haltom said.
Erlanger then conducted an extensive vendor selection process that
included seven of the leading networking vendors. The team narrowed the
field to the four vendors who could provide complete local and wide area
ATM networking solutions over a metropolitan network. After a
four-month evaluation of each of the product lines, Erlanger chose the
end-to-end solution from Newbridge Networks. Factors critical to the
decision to change networking vendors to Newbridge Networks included
the Company's scalable VIVID switched routing products, virtual network
capabilities, and excellent customer service, including a Web-based
support capability provided by the VIVID NetDirectorr network
management solution.
Erlanger is running MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switches at
each of its four main sites, each connected to a VIVID CS 1000 ATM
switch via an OC-3 link. The Health System includes a total of 16 VIVID
FDDI Red Ridges, two Fast Ethernet Orange Ridges and two Ethernet
Yellow Ridges in the main buildings.
The Newbridge solution will enable Erlanger to implement new
applications with only minimal changes to the network architecture. One of
the most important applications is the ability to create "lifetime clinical
records," containing all tests, radiology records and other reports for each
patient. Such files, Haltom said, would eliminate instances when
procedures are duplicated because the medical staff doesn't have immediate
access to complete patient records. Haltom estimated that application alone
could save Erlanger Health System several million dollars annually when
fully implemented.
"The VIVID system's standards-based Layer 3 switching technology is
ideal for the bandwidth-intensive voice/video applications used in the
medical field. These and other multimedia applications require significant
routing performance," said Lou Martinage, Product Marketing Manager at
Newbridge Networks. "We are pleased to provide the superior network
technology that will deliver the improved patient care and important new
wellness programs Erlanger is rolling out."
The VIVID family of high-performance local area network (LAN)
internetworking products delivers a powerful solution to meet the demands
of today's enterprise network environments. With highly scalable,
wire-speed routing capability, VIVID products are ideal for meeting the
performance requirements for high-speed LAN, multimedia and intranet
applications. Based on the Multiprotocol Over ATM (MPOA) standard, the
VIVID switched routing architecture is the only standards-compliant, Layer
3 switching solution available today that eliminates the performance
bottlenecks and management complexity of conventional router network
designs. VIVID products also enable extensive virtual networking
capabilities, allowing customers to define policies for governing user
behavior and enhancing application performance.
Newbridge Networks (www.newbridge.com) designs, manufactures,
markets and services a comprehensive family of networking products and
systems that delivers the power of multimedia communications solutions to
organizations in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge
products are the choice of an expanding range of customers which includes
the world's 200 largest telecommunications service providers, and more
than 10,000 corporations, government organizations, and other
institutions. The company has facilities throughout Canada, the United
States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common
shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NN) in the United
States and The Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada.
Newbridge Switched Routing Solution
Rates as Most Cost Effective in Study of
Layer 3 Switching Architectures
MPOA Model Frees Network Administrators from Traditional Device
Management, Enables Them to Spend More Time on Proactive Tasks
Herndon, Virginia, March 17, 1998 - Newbridge Networks today
announced that its switched routing system was judged the most cost
effective among the Layer 3 switching solutions evaluated by Renaissance
Worldwide Inc., a leading information technology consultant. The
Newbridger switched routing solution frees network managers to spend
less time "fighting fires" and more time focusing on existing and emerging
end-user requirements. The industry's only Multiprotocol-over-ATM
(MPOA)-based solution, the Newbridge system was shown to deliver cost
reductions of nearly twice that offered by traditional and
non-standard-compliant networks.
"The results of this study reflect key operational efficiencies inherent in the
Newbridge switched routing architecture," said John P. Morency, Director
of Network Business Practice at Renaissance Worldwide. "In the
Newbridge solution, centralized, MPOA-based management greatly
reduces the task of router configuration and re-configuration, compared to
the conventional distributed routing model."
Renaissance Worldwide polled Newbridge Networks and other
networking vendors' reference accounts in three industries: education,
health care and manufacturing. Each network had been upgraded from a
legacy, router-based infrastructure. Most of the solutions evaluated were
non-standards-compliant hybrids of Layer 2 switching in hardware and
Layer 3 routing in software.
The Newbridge system centralizes administration and control of the
network in an MPOA server. Network administrators configure a single
device once to implement changes to existing router policies.
Consequently, administrators of the Newbridge switched routing networks
evaluated by Renaissance Worldwide spent about 46 percent less time on
reactive tasks (such as responding to SNMP alerts, analyzing existing
traffic patterns and detecting duplicate network addresses) and about 40
percent more on proactive activities (such as network design, capacity
planning and applications development) than they did before the upgrade.
"The results of this study point to concrete improvements in utilization of
network-administrator resources; they have been able to shift their
emphasis away from tactical, day-to-day operational and
change-management chores and instead apply their talents to more strategic
efforts," Morency said. "This constitutes encouraging news in that there
does exist a networking vendor, Newbridge Networks, that enables users
to realize the benefits of both industry-standard architecture implementation
and cost-of-ownership reduction."
"With the demands on network administrators growing, we have sought to
develop a solution that relieves network administrators of the burden of
traditional device management," said Raj Sharma, Director of Product
Marketing at Newbridge Networks. "Our MPOA-based model for
managing Layer 3 services gives administrators control over their entire
network and eliminates the chore of managing individual routers, which is
the primary drain on their resources."
Newbridge Networks (www.newbridge.com) designs, manufactures,
markets and services a comprehensive family of networking products and
systems that delivers the power of multimedia communications solutions to
organizations in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge
products are the choice of an expanding range of customers which includes
the world's 250 largest telecommunications service providers and more
than 10,000 corporations, government organizations, and other
institutions. The company has facilities throughout Canada, the United
States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common
shares are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NN) in the
United States and on The Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada.
Newbridge is a trademark of Newbridge Networks Corporation and is
registered in the United States and in other countries. |
