Loran Kinnetics: Management System for the Pan American Games' Network.VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- Keeping score at the Pan American Games Pan American (Sports) Games Quadrennial sports festival. The games, conceived in 1940 as an event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, were first held in 1951. is almost as hard as winning a medal -- during the Games in Winnipeg, Canada, over 5,000 athletes from 42 countries will compete in 41 sports, all of which require an extensive network of devices to transmit the scores and timings in real time to the local and remote audiences. To assure the continuous operation of this results system, the Host Society turned to Loran Technologies' Kinnetics Management System over other available solutions because of the reliability and context it brought to critical network management decision making. Kinnetics, with its physical view of the network, helps assure the availability of critical devices located in each event site's results room by monitoring each device's health as well as the physical connections in the network. The Pan Am Games' results system consists of results rooms at each site that feed real time event results and graphics to the scoreboards as well as back to a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. results system for broadcast to news outlets and the Games' web site. During the Games, Kinnetics pinpoints network problems and assists network technicians in fixing them. "Kinnetics is unique in that it automatically understands the health of the connections between devices due to its physical view of the network," said Cliff Durston, Vice President of Technology for the Pan American Games. "Without the automatic, continuous monitoring of network connections and devices, the real-time dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there of event timings and scores could be disrupted. Providing a network for the Games is a challenge -- we needed a network manager that could be set up quickly and provide us with a trusted source of information on the health of the system -- Kinnetics was the winner for us." About Loran Loran Technologies Inc., located in Vienna, Virginia Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 14,453 at the 2000 census and it has grown by about 3% since[1]. In July of 2005, CNN/Money and Money , develops the Loran Kinnetics Management System, a totally new approach to managing networks and networked devices. Kinnetics provides a reliable and complete view of the network while being easy to deploy and use. Patented technology in Loran Kinnetics allows network administrators to see the topology topology, branch of mathematics, formerly known as analysis situs, that studies patterns of geometric figures involving position and relative position without regard to size. of their network by port level connections. This realistic network view provides a complete inventory of all networked resources and identifies problem areas. Kinnetics has been selected for mission critical applications, both government and commercial, worldwide. Loran has designed and installed more than 350 networks and management solutions throughout the world since 1992. For more information on Loran, please visit the company's web site at http://www.loran.com. About The Pan American Games With 5,000 athletes from 42 western hemisphere Western Hemisphere Part of Earth comprising North and South America and the surrounding waters. Longitudes 20° W and 160° E are often considered its boundaries. countries participating, the XIII Pan Am Games is the third-largest multi-sport event A multi-sport event is a competition in which athletes compete in a number of different sports. The first modern multi-sport event organised were the Olympic Games, organised by the International Olympic Committee (est. 1894) for the first time in 1896 in Athens, Greece. ever held in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. after the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Atlanta Olympics. For more information on the Games, please visit http://www.panamgames.org. Kinnetics, Kinnetics Network Manager, and Supplying Network Management Systems to Pan Am '99 are trademarks or service marks of Loran Technologies, Inc. |
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