Juniper, Fujitsu Successfully Conclude 40G Test

Forty gigabit technology took another step forward recently due to the successful completion of a live trial that sent 40G payloads across 80 and 56 kilometer spans between the University of Maryland campus and facilities in McLean, Va.

The equipment was deployed in the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads’ (MAX) metro-fiber network, and MAX teamed with NASA Goddard Flight Center for its expertise in flow rate testing.

The test employed routing and optical equipment from Juniper Networks (JNPR) and Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.. Specifically, the trial included Juniper’s T1600 core routers and Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 7500 metro/regional optical networking platforms, each equipped with 40 Gbps interfaces.

Once the interface cards were installed and provisioned, they required no special configuration settings and encountered no compatibility issues between optical and routing platforms, according to test participants.

“We currently use a 10 Gbps network path, partly provisioned by MAX, between our GSFC-based NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) supercomputer facility and the larger High-End Computing Capability supercomputer facility based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California,” said HECN leader Pat Gary. “This year the NCCS upgraded its computing capability nearly threefold to 67 teraflops, and next year they expect to nearly double that capability. These supercomputers are used to run large models to simulate and better understand Earth’s climate and weather, the planet’s relationship with the sun, and the evolution of cosmic phenomena. With the extremely large data sets that must be transferred to other NASA sites and universities across the country for analysis, 40gbps links will allow us to improve the efficiency of our research work with real-time collaboration.”

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