High-speed net creates opportunities for museum

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
09/06/05
Today's focus: High-speed net creates opportunities for museum

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* Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History connects to
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Today's focus: High-speed net creates opportunities for museum

By Jeff Caruso

My 3-year-old loves dinosaurs - in fact, I think he's part T-Rex
- so we recently made a rare trip into Manhattan to see the
magnificent dinosaur bones at the American Museum of Natural
History. But the museum is much more than a collection of
fossils; it's a living, breathing research institution with more
than 200 scientists. And those scientists need Apatosaurus-sized
bandwidth.

To that end the museum a few years ago connected to the Internet
2, a high-speed network for universities and other research
institutions. It was the first independent museum to join the
network.

One of the primary reasons for joining was to handle scans of
the night sky - an astrophysicist was comparing a set of
photographic plates taken in the late 1950s and '60s with a new
set taken by the Hubble space telescope. The movement of those
scans across the network connection would tie it up for hours.
After connecting to Internet 2, the time was reduced to minutes.

Interestingly, the museum also shoots original short nature
videos and distributes them to other museums - in high
definition - for displays and exhibits. With the Internet 2
connection, it can send those videos over the network.

In the future, the museum plans to use the connection to
remotely control a telescope in Chile. It will also use it to
serve up photographic images, X-rays, videos and audio to other
institutions.

The museum uses coarse wave-division multiplexing over fiber to
make use of eight 1G bit/sec waves in its connection to
NYSERNet's peering facility in downtown Manhattan, where it
connects to Internet 2.

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