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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20
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Breaking News -
Networking:
BigBangwidth Introduces BroadLAN
At WestGrid Launch Event
BigBangwidth has announced the unveiling of its flagship product,
BigBangwidth
BroadLAN at the WestGrid Launch event at the University of Alberta. BroadLAN
lifts large data streams off of local area networks to provide explosive
bandwidth to high-performance network devices for applications such as Grid
computing, visualization, file backup and media-rich collaboration. BroadLAN
acts as a Grid computing on-ramp for data traffic being transferred from
high-performance workstations to network backbones.
"The bandwidth demands of high-performance applications often saturate
local
area networks (LANs) throughout Western Canada's high-performance computing
community," said Dan Gatti, president and Chief Executive Officer of
BigBangwidth. "We are excited to have an opportunity to work with researchers
on the WestGrid network to improve their collaboration and file sharing
capabilities."
BroadLAN can bring up to 10 Gigabit/s connections directly to
high-performance
devices, allowing for large file transfers of up to eighty times faster than
conventional local area network equipment. Because network traffic is lifted
off the LAN, BroadLAN frees LAN resources and extends the life of current
network equipment. BroadLAN is compatible with all IP-based networking
equipment including Cisco Systems and Brocade.
"High-bandwidth access to the network can be the primary bottleneck in
high-performance visualization applications", said Pierre Boulanger, Director,
Research Institute for Multimedia Systems at the University of Alberta. "IP
networks are not designed for the size of files commonly found in
visualization and collaboration environments. I look forward to having access
to the Grid computing facility to speed up our development time."
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