December 1997 — Telecommunications

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Cal Poly's Residential Hall Network Boosts On-Campus Residency

To offer all of these services, Cal Poly uses Bay Network's Centillion 100 switches in 13 residential housing complexes at the San Luis Obispo campus. When students request data, Bay's Backbone Line Node (BLN) high-end router transmits FDDI-based data from the campus backbone via ATM to the Centillion 100 switch at each of the 13 residence halls. BayStack stackable hubs then convert the data for efficient delivery to individual users. Cal Poly also uses Bay Network's Optivity network management solution capabilities to allow network administrators to automate the management of network resources.

"Bay Networks had the router technology to deliver data from the campus FDDI network, but they also had the ATM, virtual LAN technology and shared media hubs that put our network a generation ahead of other university residence hall networks," says Wong. "In addition, Bay was the only company we looked at who was willing to work within our budget to make the network solution happen. And the company has just been outstanding with service and network design support."

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