DANTE upgrades US connection to 155 Mbit/s

Frankfurt, 03 November 98 Within the context of migration to the TEN-155 network, DANTE's US connectivity will also be upgraded to 155 Mbps. It is expected that this new link will be operational by mid-December 1998. DANTE's 45 Mbps link to the United States performed well in September and October, although availability dropped from 100% during August to 99.12% in September 1998. The reason for the lower availability were three outages in September caused by faulty cards on the Frankfurt multiplexer.

Packet loss on the US link again increased sharply during September, coinciding with the start of the academic year. Losses were then as high asbefore the line speed was increased from 34 Mbps to 45 Mbps earlier this year. However, the Czech national research network disconnected from the service on 2 October resulting in ample space for the remaining research networks.

Within the context of migration to the TEN-155 network, DANTE's US connectivity will also be upgraded to 155 Mbps. It is expected that this new link will be operational by mid- December 1998.

Sandra Wermer