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| Press Release Archives - January 7, 2003 |
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The Traverse® Platform deployed as part of major
upgrade that increases network bandwidth by more than a factor
of 10PETALUMA, Calif., January 7, 2003 -
Turin Networks,
Inc., a leading developer and supplier of multiservice optical
transport platforms for network service providers, announced
today that the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has deployed
the Traverse® Platform as part of a major upgrade of their
local infrastructure and wide area connectivity. Turin's flagship
products provide the critical link connecting the PSC's Pittsburgh
GigaPoP with the Terascale Computing System (TCS) housed at
the Westinghouse Electric Company, over leased dark fiber.
The newly installed network infrastructure, which began carrying
production traffic in early November, is critical in the support
of high-bandwidth applications for the TCS. One such project
already benefiting from the new infrastructure is the National
Tele-Immersion Initiative. The Tele-Immersion project involving
researchers at PSC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
and University of Pennsylvania, enables real-time, 3D-image
collaboration between researchers at geographically dispersed
locations. PSC expects that the new infrastructure in combination
with the six Teraflop processing power of the Terascale Computing
System will provide the foundation for many innovative applications
in the future.
"After studying several options for
lighting the dark fiber, we concluded that Turin's Traverse
Platform offered the flexibility and scalability we required,
at an attractive price" said Ken Goodwin, Production Network
Coordinator, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. "It easily met
our current bandwidth needs and gives us the ability to add
switching capacity, and upgrade to OC-192, as needed in the
future."
Turin's Traverse Platform is the foremost Ethernet over SONET/SDH
solution in the industry today, 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. Leveraging this functionality, as
well as advanced capabilities such as standards-based virtual
concatenation, PSC is able to efficiently support 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.
"We're excited to be providing the technology infrastructure
academic researchers require for innovative, high-performance
applications like the Tele-Immersion project" said Dr. Hui
Zhang, chief technology officer, Turin Networks. "Research and
education customers like the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
are pioneering a new era in communications."
About
Turin Networks
Turin Networks Inc. is a leading developer and supplier of an
innovative multiservice transport product - the Traverse®
Platform - for telecommunications carriers. Founded in October
of 1999, the company is headquartered in Petaluma, the center
of California's "Telecom Valley" with additional offices in
Boston and London. A privately held corporation, Turin is led
by an accomplished management team and is funded by top-tier
venture capital firms as well as distinguished corporate and
private investors. For more information, visit www.turinnetworks.com
or call 707.665.4400
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Media Contact:
Kevin
Wade
Director of Product Marketing
Turin Networks, Inc.
1-707-665-4509
kwade@turinnetworks.com |
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