Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Argonne National Lab Deploys CIENA's ONLINE Metro DWDM

Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers, has deployed CIENA's ONLINE Metro DWDM platform in two separate networks. The first application is to provide OC-48 and OC-192 channels between the Laboratory located 25 miles southwest of Chicago, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Champaign, Illinois and several other research and education institutions in the state. The second application is to provide OC-48/OC-192 links between locations in the TeraGrid and Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education (I-WIRE) networks, including StarLight, a global experimental optical network exchange facility. Argonne is also using the ONLINE Metro platform to test Fibre Channel over SONET, as well as for experimenting with extended Ethernet transport solutions.
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