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To: MangoBoy who wrote (250)	11/15/1999 9:45:00 AM
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[The National Transparent Optical Network Consortium (NTONC) Fires Up Second Link; Connects Portland, Oregon With Seattle Via 10 Gbps Optical Networking System] NTON to Provide High Speed Connectivity to Exhibitors at Supercomputing '99 VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Transparent Optical Network Consortium (NTONC), which includes Nortel Networks, GST Telecommunications, the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sprint Communications and San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), today announced activation of the second major link of the National Transparent Optical Network (NTON), connecting Portland, Oregon with Seattle, scalable to 160 Gbps of capacity per fiber. NTON is a major portion of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored SuperNet, which is an integral part of the United States government's Next Generation Internet (NGI) project. The NGI will connect a series of regional networks eventually providing a national testbed for the development of future high-speed, broadband applications. In addition to the Portland-Seattle link, the NTON also connects Los Angeles and San Francisco via a 10 Gbps (OC-192) SONET System. Two additional links will be placed in service in the first half of 2000 to complete the network. The additional connections will link San Diego to Los Angeles as well as Portland to San Francisco. When completed the 1200-mile NTON will have the capacity to provide 16 wavelengths per fiber, for a total fiber capacity of 160 Gbps between San Diego and Seattle. For Supercomputing '99 Nortel Networks' 10 Gbps optical networking system will extend the Portland NTON connecting point to the Portland Convention Center to support the high-end applications being run by exhibitors at Supercomputing '99. Exhibitors include NASA Ames, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, University of Washington, Microsoft Systems Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Goddard Space Flight Center. NTON is also providing the connectivity for the national networks participating in SC'99 including DREN (Defense Research and Engineering Network), ESnet (Energy Sciences Network), NREN (NASA Research and Engineering Network), and vBNS (very high performance Backbone Network Service). More than fifty top corporations and local, state, and federal agencies will be testing a variety of high-speed applications on the NTON during the next three years. Included among the applications will be remote medical diagnosis, distance editing of major motion pictures in real time, video conferencing at full motion video speeds that includes the use of a variety of audio visual and virtual reality tools, as well as the remote testing and diagnosis of future transportation systems. The NTON Consortium, as part of a multi-agency program being led by DARPA, is responsible for managing a unique research and development platform for developing and experimenting with high bandwidth applications and field-testing emerging technologies, including new optical devices, new protocols, and new management paradigms. When completed the West Coast network will span from Seattle to San Diego. In July of this year, NASA's JPL was signed as the first partner to test advanced applications over the NTON. NTONC is in discussions with other potential participants including Caltech, Boeing, Tektronix, and the San Diego Supercomputing Center.