February 14, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of
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ethernet services, has announced that it has deployed the first
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multi-gigabit-capable wavelength service for researchers at the University
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of Miami (miami.edu), powering applications
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such as NASA weather forecasting and telemedicine. For UM students, Yipes is
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providing the first scalable networks to meet the climbing demand for Internet access.
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With the power of fiber-optic networks for multiple applications, Yipes says
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it can transmit the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in less than three
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seconds.
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The University of Miami is comprised of 14 schools and colleges in South
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Florida, including the Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex and the
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Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The university employs
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more than 9,000 faculty and staff and enrolls more than 13,000 students.
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Their studies are facilitated by an advanced campus network that includes
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connections in each dorm room and more than 60 computer labs, with a gateway
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to national and international networks, the Internet and Internet2.
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In the first deployment of its kind at the university, Yipes installed an
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OC-3 (155 Mbps) optical connection between the main campus computing center
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and the Internet2 point of presence at the NAP of the Americas in Miami.
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Internet2 is a high-speed, nationwide network open to qualified research
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institutions, including government agencies and educational institutions.
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The University of Miami is now using Yipes and Internet2 to deliver timely
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weather information to NASA for satellite launches, to facilitate
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videoconferencing for telemedicine applications and even to enable
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packet-based telephone service to researchers in the South Pole. “Our
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applications are as demanding as any,” said Stewart Seruya, chief network
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officer at the University of Miami.
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Yipes uses LuxN’s WavSystem platform to provision up to 2.4 Gigabits per
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second (OC-48) on a single wavelength, with the ability to add more
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wavelengths on demand. The protocol-independent Yipes implementation allows
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the University of Miami to carry Ethernet, ATM or legacy TDM/SONET traffic.
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“Yipes gives us maximum flexibility in the way we connect to Internet2,
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along with exceptional speed,” said Seruya.
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While university researchers test the limits of networking over Internet2,
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students engaged in Web browsing, e-mail and downloads of large multimedia
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files have been pushing the envelope of demand for basic Internet services.
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“We experienced more than 150 percent growth in bandwidth usage over the
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six-months from May to Sept.,” Seruya said. “There’s no way we could
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reasonably forecast and plan for such demand.” The university might have had
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to wait months to order legacy circuits to meet the unexpected demand. With
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Yipes’ instantly scalable network, however, it simply ordered and
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immediately received an increase in service from 10 Mbps to 46 Mbps. Yipes
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allows customers to change bandwidth within seconds over a secure Web site,
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from 1 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps in 1 Mbps increments.
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“With Yipes, we never have to provision new circuits to handle our changing
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bandwidth needs,” Seruya said. “We plan to steer all of our network growth
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to Yipes to take advantage of its inherent flexibility.”
