[comm][Fwd: 100085 OPNIX JOINS Internet2 TO ADVANCE INTERNET PERFORMANCE 07.08.02]

[Ruth Milner]

FYI. U Arizona is scheduled to get this equipment this month. (NRAO Tucson
has access to Abilene/Internet2 via U of A)

Ruth.

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Subject: 100085 OPNIX JOINS Internet2 TO ADVANCE INTERNET PERFORMANCE                 07.08.02
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:11:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Grid Today <grid at gridtoday.com>
To: rmilner at zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU

OPNIX JOINS Internet2 TO ADVANCE INTERNET PERFORMANCE                 07.08.02
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TEMPE. AZ, Opnix Inc, a leader in the emerging IP Route Optimization market,
announced that it has joined the university-led Internet2 research and
development consortium.

As an Internet2 Corporate Sponsor, Opnix will work together with the Internet2
community to take the first detailed look at the overall performance of the
Internet2 network infrastructure. The results of this collaboration will
contribute to the Internet2 routing working group and the Internet2 End-to-End
Performance Initiative.

The Internet2 network infrastructure includes advanced national backbone
networks, regional high-performance network aggregation points, called
gigaPoPs, and the campus networks being deployed by Internet2 members.

Opnix's Orbit 1000 Routing Intelligence System will shed light on the end-to-
end performance issues within the combined infrastructure by providing a
consistent measurement capability across domains through real-time data
gathering on the performance across each path of the infrastructure.

In addition, with the use of the Opnix central CORE database, all collected
data will be available to the entire Internet2 community to conduct necessary
trend and statistical analysis to determine performance capabilities and
identify problems.

"This is an exciting opportunity for Opnix to play a key role in such an
advanced initiative," said Jane Evans, chief executive officer for Opnix. "The
Orbit 1000's unique ability to probe such a large and high performance testbed
infrastructure, and collect data to such a detailed level will provide a new
window into network performance and management."

"We are very pleased to be working with Opnix to better understand the
performance characteristics of the combined Internet2 network infrastructure,"
said Guy Almes, Internet2's chief engineer. "We are convinced that high-
quality performance measurement is the first step in overcoming the hurdles to
reliably providing high-performance end-to-end networking."

The first Orbit 1000 installations have taken place in the Armonk New York
PoP, and the Merit Network gigaPoP in Ann Arbor, Mich. Harvard University, the
University of Oregon and the University of Arizona installations will be
completed this month.

About Internet2

Led by over 190 U.S. universities, working with industry and government,
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of
tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships among academia,
industry, and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy.

About Opnix

Opnix Inc is a leader in the emerging IP Route Optimization market. With the
development of the Orbit 1000 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), Opnix
redefines "intelligent" routing. Orbit 1000 is a revolutionary CPE that
resides in the customer data center to actively measure conditions of all
Internet routes available to the customer.

Based on these measurements and the network needs of each customer, Orbit
automatically updates customer routers, thereby reducing latency by as much as
75 percent, increasing network performance four to 10 times, and reducing
customer bandwidth costs by as much as 45 percent. Opnix Inc, located in
Tempe, is a privately held, venture-funded company.

Web site: http://www.opnix.com

Web site: http://www.internet2.edu/

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