Sandia's network for supercomputing '95: Validating the progress of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching

摘要

The Advanced Networking Integration Department at Sandia National Laboratories has used the annual Supercomputing conference sponsored by the IEEE and ACM for the past three years as a forum to demonstrate and focus communication and networking developments. For Supercomputing '95, Sandia elected: to demonstrate the functionality and capability of an AT&T Globeview 20Gbps Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switch, which represents the core of Sandia's corporate network, to build and utilize a three node 622 megabit per second Paragon network, and to extend the DOD's ACTS ATM Internet from Sandia, New Mexico to the conference's show floor in San Diego, California, for video demonstrations. This paper documents those accomplishments, discusses the details of their implementation, and describes how these demonstrations supports Sandia's overall strategies in ATM networking.