European backbone continues to excel

Amsterdam, 19 February 98 According to the newsletter The Works of Dante TEN-34 continues to provide a high quality backbone service to the European Research Community. An additional 10 Mbps ATM link between Frankfurt and Vienna came into operation on 9 February 1998. Portugal will join the TEN-34 network in March with a 10 Mbps satellite link to Geneva and will thus complete the TEN-34 network topology.

A second router in Germany was added to the TEN-34 network and the circuits in Frankfurt were rearranged.

As in the previous months, The Works of Dante reports that access port and line availability have again been greater than 99%, with the exception of connectivity between Italy and Greece where a damaged sea cable led to an unexpected major outage at the beginning of January 1998.

The IP subnetwork of TEN-34 managed by Unisource is currently undergoing major improvements. Unisource is migrating from IP to ATM VP on certain links in their network. The start was made on 1 February with an additional link in the Unisource network between Stockholm and Geneva at 34 Mbps.

An additional 34 Mbps ATM link between London and Amsterdam will become operational on 9 March. This will be followed in mid-March by upgrades on the connectivity between Amsterdam and Geneva as well as between Stockholm and Amsterdam. The Stockholm-London link will be upgraded to 34 Mbps in April reports The Works of Dante .

For more information check in at the Dante web site.

Ad Emmen