Chiaro Networks' Enstara IP/MPLS Platform Selected by CERN for Trans-Atlantic Trial.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004 The Enstara Platform to Demonstrate Ultra Reliability in Intercontinental Data-Intensive Grid Test Bed Chiaro Networks, the developer of true infrastructure-class Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS IP/MPLS Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching ) platforms, today announced that its Enstara(TM) router has been selected by the European Organization for Nuclear Research European Organization for Nuclear Research: see CERN. (CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. ) for its DataTAG project. The DataTAG project, a large-scale intercontinental Grid test bed, is focused on advanced networking issues and interoperability between Grid domains across Europe and the United States. The purpose for DataTAG's research is to provide a highly reliable solution that will allow transparent access to the increasing number of data-intensive applications being distributed within the Grid. Chiaro's Enstara router has been in the CERN network since March 4. "Impeccable reliability from a core IP/MPLS router is an imperative for CERN and our DataTAG project, which is meant to further CERN's ability to better share scientific and technical information and to collaborate across long distances," said Olivier Martin of CERN, DataTAG project leader. "Also crucial are Quality of Service (QoS), performance and the ability to interoperate within a multi-vendor network. Chiaro's Enstara platform meets or exceeds our criteria on all counts, and we expect that it will prove itself a valuable resource for the reliable transfer of huge amounts of data." While at CERN, the Enstara platform will be tested for its ability to provide consistent and sustained ultra reliability for high-performance data replication and guaranteed real-time traffic delivery over long-distance, high-bandwidth connections. The Enstara router will also provide the long-distance connectivity between CERN and the OptIPuter Project at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at San Diego (UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes ), as well as provide large Internet Border-Gateway-Protocol (BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ) route connectivity with France's next-generation Internet test bed, the VTHD (Vraiment Tres Haut Debit) network (www.vthd.org). "We are demonstrating the Enstara platform's ability to provide a real solution, available today, for the reliable transfer of real-time data over high-bandwidth intercontinental connections," said Ken Lewis, president and chief executive officer of Chiaro Networks. "Providing an infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform that can reliably transfer the sort of critical and data-intensive applications being used at CERN, is important to our carrier customers looking for the same ultra reliability and excellent performance to consolidate their networks." Enstara: The First Infrastructure-Class IP/MPLS Platform The Chiaro Enstara router, the world's first highly available infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform, defines infrastructure-class with ultra reliability, versatility and product longevity. Available in configurations for different applications and system sizes, the Enstara portfolio offers carriers a powerful new way to achieve unprecedented cost savings. Key to the Enstara platform's ability to deliver infrastructure-class capabilities is Chiaro's STateful Assured Routing(TM) (STAR(TM)) technology, which enables 99.999 percent (five nines) availability with seamless, transparent protection of hardware and software during switchover following failures and maintenance activities, including "hitless" upgrades. With STAR protocol protection, the impact of equipment failures and maintenance events is not only minimized, it is unnoticed by other parts of the network. Enstara's modular distributed software architecture provides automatic fault detection and recovery, intelligent fault monitoring and network stability, with software modules added or upgraded as needed. Rapid and early detection of software failures and imminent failures provides fast switchover and recovery. The Enstara platform features a "no single point of failure" architecture, designed from the ground up with internal redundancy, which eliminates the need to deploy multiple routers. About CERN and DataTAG CERN is the world's largest particle physics research center, located near Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , Switzerland. Technological development at CERN has given the world advances as varied as medical imaging and the World Wide Web. Founded in 1954, the laboratory was one of Europe's first joint ventures and has become a shining example of international collaboration. For more information please visit their web site at www.cern.ch. The DataTAG project is co-funded by the European Union, the US National Science Foundation through the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) at University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
About OptIPuter The OptIPuter project is a next-generation, optical-networking, grid-computing test bed at UCSD in conjunction with UIC and other institutions and companies. UCSD also uses the Enstara platform for its high-speed, highly scalable optical-switching capabilities -- pushing the limits of grid-computing architectures to support data-intensive scientific research and collaboration. The OptIPuter web site is www.optiputer.net. About Chiaro Networks Chiaro Networks is the provider of the Enstara(TM) router, the industry's first highly available infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform. The company has developed the Enstara portfolio with the goal of solving the "crisis of cost" issues facing service providers, reducing capital expenditures per point of presence (PoP) by more than 60 percent. With strong support from the venture capitalist and technology communities, Chiaro, with headquarters in Richardson, Texas, has secured $210 million to date from backers such as Intel Capital, Siemens Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of ArQule, CIENA, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse. and STAR Ventures. For more information on the company, visit www.chiaro.com. Chiaro Networks and Enstara are trademarks of Chiaro Networks. Chiaro Networks disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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