To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (6484 ) 9/14/1998 12:34:00 PM From: Claude Robitaille Respond to of 18016
Kanagawa Dental College in Japan has deployed the Newbridge VIVID switched routing solution to support high speed digital imaging applications for teaching. In addition to offering a lecture presentation system that students can access 24 hours a day, seven days a week via the World Wide Web, the network supports a knowledge database and e-mail services - applications that enhance the quality and efficiency of the education process. Network design and consultation services for the Kanagawa Dental College network were provided by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation Kanagawa Corporate Sales Department's User Solution 2WG, a systems integrator. The high performance Multiprotocol over ATM based internetworking solution provided by Newbridge enables professors to post their multimedia lecture presentations on the web, which students can access from personal computers. This enables students to access information prior to class and review what they have learned following their lectures. Another cost saving advantage of the presentation system is that image files can be downloaded from the web and viewed directly by the students. This avoids the potentially high costs associated with producing colour copies and distributing the slides to hundreds of individuals. Kanagawa Dental College was seeking a networking solution that would deliver consistent high bandwidth enabling the college to meet the growing demand for multimedia presentations and other state of the art applications. The VIVID switched routing solution consists of CS1000 ATM switches, Yellow Ridge edge devices, Route Servers, a System Manager and the versatile, high capacity Siemens/Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36150 Access Switch. In addition to providing unlimited scalability and centralized management capabilities, the network is fast and reliable, two essential qualities for the type of high bandwidth applications being used by the college. (c) Copyright 1998 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com