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Foundry Networks(R) Inc. of San Jose, California, announced that it has equipped the University of Luebeck and its Institute for Medical Informatics with a powerful new Layer 3 10-Gigabit Ethernet backbone. The high-speed network is already IPv6 compatible and supports 400 university staff as well as the research work of students in the computing and life sciences faculties.
"As we were constructing a new building for the informatics and medical technology areas, we took the opportunity to install from the outset a partly meshed Layer 3 high-speed network that would fulfill the ambitious requirements of our university while leaving scope for future extensions," said Prof. Dr. Siegfried J. Poppl, Director of the Institute for Medical Informatics and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Core backbone based on modular BigIron switching technology
The new network's core backbone consists of two BigIron BIMG8 systems, each with a throughput of 640 Gigabits per second, and five BigIron 15000 and BigIron 8000 systems. In addition, eleven additional BigIron 15000 and NetIron 1500 systems act as routers that are connected to the network core via Gigabit Ethernet. They each supply individual terminals with bandwidth of up to 1 Gigabit per second over fiber-optic or copper facilities. The entire network is duplicated and designed for maximum availability. Wire-speed network monitoring is achieved using sFlow, Foundry Networks' hardware-based tool that enables staff to detect viruses, worms, and attacks on the network. All of the implemented systems support both IPv4 and IPv6, underscoring the network's future-proof quality. For its global IPv6 communication, the university network has a 155 Megabit connection to the GWiN, the countrywide scientific network and intranet, with a tunnel to the native IPv6 network configured within the German Research Network.
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