10 Gigabit goes to school

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
10/25/05
Today's focus: 10 Gigabit goes to school

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Today's focus: 10 Gigabit goes to school

By Jeff Caruso

Foundry Networks continues to roll 10 Gigabit Ethernet out to
various organizations. This time the network hardware company
has announced that two educational institutions have separately
opted for its gear.

The first is Vanderbilt University (whose football team,
coincidentally, was thrashed by my alma mater a couple weeks
ago, but that's neither here nor there). The university's
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education is
installing Foundry's BigIron RX-16, which you may recall
<http://www.networkworld.com/nllan9538> is also going into
Internet exchanges.

In Vanderbilt's case, the RX-16 becomes the core infrastructure
for the university's high-performance computing cluster. The
computing center is used by researchers in areas ranging from
genetics, molecular biology and physiology to high-energy
physics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering and math.

Vanderbilt says it needed a switch to scale up to hundreds of
Gigabit Ethernet ports and dozens of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
while keeping latency low. Plus, it had to be able to work
continuously. The RX-16 has redundancy features and "graceful"
software failover capabilities, and it boots up in less than 45
seconds.

Meanwhile, Southern California's El Monte Union High School
District went with Foundry's BigIron MG8 switches for its
backbone. Foundry FastIron SuperX edge switches connect to a 10
Gigabit Ethernet core network supported by the BigIron. The
school system is also using Foundry access points to create a
wireless LAN.

On top of that network, El Monte is running voice over IP via
Mitel gear, providing VoIP to 8,000 users distributed among
seven high school campuses.

El Monte is one of the first high school districts to deploy a
10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone. What are they going to fill that
pipe with? Multimedia, primarily. High school isn't what it used
to be.

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4. Juniper gains corporate network ground
<http://www.networkworld.com/nllan9540>
5. Cisco finally brings security push to LAN
<http://www.networkworld.com/nllan9030nllansalert9418>

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