Turin Supplies Ethernet/SONET Transport for Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has deployed Turin Networks' Traverse optical transport platform for connecting its Internet2 GigaPoP with the Terascale Computing System (TCS) housed at the Westinghouse Electric Company using leased dark fiber. Turin's Traverse Platform provides an Ethernet over SONET/SDH, integrating the functions of a next-generation SONET add-drop multiplexer (ADM) and digital cross-connect system (DCS) with an Ethernet aggregation switch in a single compact shelf. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is using the platform for multiple wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet connections over their leased fiber. Advanced VLAN and rate-limiting features will also allow them to support per-port or per traffic-class bandwidth SLAs in the future. One application benefiting from the high-speed connection is a Tele-Immersion project involving researchers at PSC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and University of Pennsylvania.
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