Gigabit ATM Applications Over 10 Gb/s SONET Ring
A 10 Gb/s SONET metropolitan area ring supporting gigabit ATM applications
is to be installed in St. Louis as part of ARPA's Technology Reinvestment
Program. This is being done by a consortium led by Bellcore and including
AT&T, Rockwell, Southwestern Bell, Tektronix and Washington University.
Washington University's role in the project is to expand and extend our
gigabit campus network to interface to the SONET ring at 2.4 Gb/s and
demonstrate gigabit applications over the combined SONET-ATM testbed,
including optical sectioning microscopy and spiral tomography.
Some closely related projects at Washington University are listed below.
- Gigabit Network Testbed.
Research and experimental evaluation of gigabit
network technology. Supported by ARPA/CSTO.
- Distributed
Imaging on Gigabit Networks.
Research on distributed imaging applications over gigabit
networks and the underlying protocols and network technology needed
to support those applications.
- Expansion
of Project Zeus Network.
Project Zeus is an initiative which seeks to transform the
Washington University campus network to an ATM-based multimedia
network supporting link speeds of up to 2.4 Gb/s and applications
ranging from classical data applications to high resolution video
and scientific imaging.
Prepared by
Jonathan Turner: jst@cs.wustl.edu
Prepared 1/18/95, Last Modified 1/18/95.