Uen Provides Bandwidth on Demand for the Research Community
UEN PROVIDES BANDWIDTH ON DEMAND FOR THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY What Our Customers Working with the University of Utah, the Are Saying Utah Education Network has connected the “We were able to start deploying 100G wavelengths alongside our research community with a super-fast, 100G existing 10G wavelengths right transport infrastructure built on Ciena’s 6500 away, giving us a tenfold uplift in available bandwidth capacity for the Packet-Optical Platform. local research community.” The Utah Education Network (UEN) connects all universities, school districts, schools, “It costs the same to buy and turn libraries, and anchor institutions across the state. To meet the needs of super users at up a wavelength on the Ciena the University of Utah and other research institutions, the organization needed to infrastructure as it costs to lease an upgrade its existing 10G network infrastructure. equivalent service from a third-party provider for one year. After that, we Working with the University of Utah and Ciena, with local project support from Ciena only have maintenance costs to partner CenturyLink, UEN deployed new 100G wavelengths to connect the university’s think about, which means we high-performance computing center with its new data center in downtown Salt Lake achieve major ongoing savings.” City. A third 100G connection links the university to the U.S. national research and education network, Internet2. Kevin Quire Manager of Network Engineering The new metro optical network, which is built on Ciena’s 6500, provides virtually Utah Education Network unlimited, on-demand bandwidth for the research community. It will support the diverse research portfolio of researchers and students across Utah for many years to come, offering robust scientific computing and visualization capabilities in the areas of biomedicine, genomics, geophysics, combustion, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, and climate modeling.
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