Feb, 2002 : Yipes Provides Networks for University of Miami

📅 February 14, 2002 - Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider ofethernet services, has announced that it has deployed the firstmulti-gigabit-capable wavelength service for researchers at the Universityof Miami (miami.edu), powering applications such as NASA weather forecasting and telemedicine. For UM students, Yipes is providing the first scalable networks to meet the climbing demand for Internet access.

With the power of fiber-optic networks for multiple applications, Yipes saysit can transmit the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in less than threeseconds.
The University of Miami is comprised of 14 schools and colleges in SouthFlorida, including the Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex and theRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The university employsmore than 9,000 faculty and staff and enrolls more than 13,000 students.Their studies are facilitated by an advanced campus network that includesconnections in each dorm room and more than 60 computer labs, with a gatewayto national and international networks, the Internet and Internet2.
In the first deployment of its kind at the university, Yipes installed anOC-3 (155 Mbps) optical connection between the main campus computing centerand the Internet2 point of presence at the NAP of the Americas in Miami.Internet2 is a high-speed, nationwide network open to qualified researchinstitutions, including government agencies and educational institutions.
The University of Miami is now using Yipes and Internet2 to deliver timelyweather information to NASA for satellite launches, to facilitatevideoconferencing for telemedicine applications and even to enablepacket-based telephone service to researchers in the South Pole. "Ourapplications are as demanding as any," said Stewart Seruya, chief networkofficer at the University of Miami.
Yipes uses LuxN's WavSystem platform to provision up to 2.4 Gigabits persecond (OC-48) on a single wavelength, with the ability to add morewavelengths on demand. The protocol-independent Yipes implementation allowsthe University of Miami to carry Ethernet, ATM or legacy TDM/SONET traffic."Yipes gives us maximum flexibility in the way we connect to Internet2,along with exceptional speed," said Seruya.
While university researchers test the limits of networking over Internet2,students engaged in Web browsing, e-mail and downloads of large multimediafiles have been pushing the envelope of demand for basic Internet services.
"We experienced more than 150 percent growth in bandwidth usage over thesix-months from May to Sept.," Seruya said. "There's no way we couldreasonably forecast and plan for such demand." The university might have hadto wait months to order legacy circuits to meet the unexpected demand. WithYipes' instantly scalable network, however, it simply ordered andimmediately received an increase in service from 10 Mbps to 46 Mbps. Yipesallows customers to change bandwidth within seconds over a secure Web site,from 1 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps in 1 Mbps increments.
"With Yipes, we never have to provision new circuits to handle our changingbandwidth needs," Seruya said. "We plan to steer all of our network growthto Yipes to take advantage of its inherent flexibility."