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To: Mark who wrote (3744)5/30/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Captain James T. Kirk  Respond to of 8358
 
Too much waving and not enough buying, Marky-poo.



To: Mark who wrote (3744)5/31/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: Captain James T. Kirk  Respond to of 8358
 
World's fourth largest independent software vendor, and leading provider of integrated client/server business applications. Based in Walldorf, Germany. More than 15,000 employees in more than 50 countries worldwide.
More than 7,500 customers in 85 countries. SAP R/3 manages mission-critical business processes in the areas of Finance, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Sales, and Distribution.

The Challenge
SAPPHIRE is an industry trade show featuring more than 250 SAP technology partner booths and. Business scenario demos include live, streaming interactive multimedia -- and convergence of voice, video, data, and applications.
"For SAPPHIRE 97, we needed thousands of computers and workstations to be networked, with the ability to run every kind of practical application in almost every variety of business," says Ellen Shobe, Director of Technology at SAP. "The system that networked them together had to be powerful, fault-tolerant and simple to set up, configure, manage centrally, and change on the fly."

The Solution
SAP selected Cabletron's SmartSwitch products and SPECTRUM enterprise management software. The end-to-end enterprise created for the Orlando Convention Center was a 3,300 node Ethernet campus running on 60 servers and featured:
SmartSwitch 9000 data center chassis (total of three)
SmartSwitch 6000 wiring closet products (total of 16)
SmartSwitch 2200 workgroup/desktop products (total of 100)