November 10, 2008

Juniper, Fujitsu Team on 40 Gig Live Network Trial

Engineers from the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, High-End Computer Networking at NASA Goddard Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), Juniper Networks, and Fujitsu Network Communications have successfully completed a live trial of 40 Gbps connections between the University of Maryland campus and facilities in McLean, VA, using routing and optical equipment from Juniper Networks and Fujitsu.
 
Equipment used in the trial included Juniper's T1600 core routers and Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 7500 metro/regional optical networking platforms, each equipped with 40 Gbps interfaces. The equipment was deployed in MAX's metro-fiber network, and MAX teamed with long-time collaborator NASA Goddard for their expertise in flow rate testing. 40 Gbps test signals were successfully passed across 80 and 56 kilometer spans without any adverse impacts on production traffic running on separate wavelengths.