NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: OPTICAL NETWORKING
06/27/05
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In this issue:
* Case study: Airbus North America
* Links related to Optical Networking
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Airbus net protects key resources
By Tim Greene
Airbus North America, looking to bolster its disaster-recovery
capabilities, has installed a new WAN that lets it consolidate
separate voice lines and provides virtually unlimited bandwidth
for future services.
Two recent events in particular posed potential threats to the
Ashburn, Va., hub of its network that prompted the company to
focus on business continuity. First a tornado narrowly missed
the Ashburn facility and then a mowing crew cut a fiber line
that had been left exposed along Virginia's Route 28 during
construction, says Charlie Fletcher, vice president of
information services for Airbus.
Now if one of the Virginia sites goes down, the other four U.S.
sites will still be able to connect with each other as well as
the company's affiliates in Europe. "We're relatively
comfortable that the same disaster would not take out both of
those offices," Fletcher says.
Rather than issuing an RFP for the upgrade, the company opted to
let its WAN provider, Global Internetworking, Inc. (GII),
design, install and manage a new core network that relies on
Ethernet over SONET to support redundant logistics centers as
well as redundant e-mail servers. The core of the new network
has been running for about two weeks and will undergo
refinements over the next six months that will bring further
redundancy to key resources.
Until this month the company's Ashburn site, where its logistics
and e-mail center is located, served as the hub of a
hub-and-spoke network serving 600 to 700 workers. It connected
via point-to-point circuits to engineering facilities in
Wichita, Kan., a flight-simulator site in Miami, headquarters in
Herndon, Va., and a government-liaison/lobbying office in
Washington, D.C. The hub was also the gateway to a DS-3 ATM link
to France. All network communication among the offices was
routed through Ashburn.
For the full story, please go to:
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062705-airbus-sonet.html>
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To contact: Tim Greene
Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering virtual
private networking gear, remote access, core switching and local
phone companies. You can reach him at <mailto:tgreene@nww.com>.
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This newsletter is sponsored by Hewlett Packard
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HP ProLiant Blade Systems: The Business Case for Adopting Blade
Systems in the Data Center. When making a purchase decision,
blades should be considered as an integrated, consolidated
infrastructure-or a complete system-that includes servers,
storage, networking and power. Learn how HP's blade system
represents a new approach to infrastructure that can accelerate
the integration and transformation of your data center.
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