MCI demonstrated the fastest IP intercity transmission ever across its IP backbone -- a single trunk filled with 40-Gbps of traffic at an event hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California by Cisco Systems.
The technology trial took place over MCI's optical fiber network between PoPs located in San Francisco and San Jose, carrying 40 Gbps of traffic over a single full-duplex Optical Carrier (OC)-768c interface. Two IP routers were connected across the MCI network via a wavelength utilizing StrataLight's OTS-4000 Optical Terminal Subsystem.
To fill up the OC-769c pipe and stress the network, the companies used Agilent's traffic generators to simulate:
- 4,000 simultaneous iPod music downloads
- 125,000 simultaneous Internet gaming sessions
- 2,500 simultaneous streams of 4-6 Mbps video streams delivered to TV set-top boxes
- the hot installation of an MPLS network and the simultaneous transmission of 1,000 enterprise VoIP and video sessions, and
- 1 million simultaneous premium Web browsing sessions
