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IP: JAPAN TO TEST-DRIVE HIGH-SPEED NETWORK from edupage
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 19:54:58 -0500
A group headed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is starting a two-year test that will use high-speed switching technology to resolve data networking gridlock. The Mapos (multiple-access over SONET/SDH) technology will be used to link five points in Tokyo via optical fiber. More than 10 companies and universities, including NTT, International Digital Communications and the Japanese units of Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems, will take part in the trial. "We have verified that Mapos functions in a laboratory environment," says an NTT spokesman. "In the field test starting in the middle of this month, we are going to verify how high a performance it can attain in the practical network environment where Internet data is actually flowing." At the same time KDD, Japan's leading international telephone carrier, plans to start its "KTH21" (KDD Terabit Highway for the 21st Century) project, which will establish a terabit-level backbone network and international trunk lines for high-speed networking. (EE Times 8 Feb 99)
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