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To: whitephosphorus who wrote (3413)	1/9/1998 2:39:00 PM
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All: Accelar routing switches and BS350s @ Miami Dade's network Gigabit Goes To Head Of The Class At Miami Dade Internet Week January 5, 1998 ... Leading Edge "We definitely wanted to go toward a gigabit backbone" to support a growing number of 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet connections, says Miguel Corteguera, enterprise network manager at Miami Dade, one of the largest community colleges in the country. The school hosts about 80,000 part-time students every semester. The Gigabit Ethernet backbones on nine campus sites are connected by a metropolitan FDDI ring. Although only 5 percent of the 7,000 end stations use Fast Ethernet now, over the past few months Miami Dade installed network interface cards and switches that can run either 10-Mbps Ethernet or Fast Ethernet. In the near future, the college expects to run more of its 11,000 ports at the higher speed. Routing the high volumes of traffic that could be generated requires Layer 3 switches, so the college ordered 14 Accelar routing switches from Bay Networks. In all, Miami Dade spent about $1 million on the routing switches and about 50 of Bay's 350T Fast Ethernet switches for its wiring closets. "We had been using routers, but the router ports were so expensive," says Bill Dickhaus, director of college network services at Miami Dade. " The Layer 3 switches were half the cost and had more capacity." Miami Dade's network may be prototypical of large networks to be built in 1998. Layer 3 switching is being combined with Gigabit Ethernet to step up bandwidth from the most common networks of Ethernet and Fast Ethernet router networks. ...