Campus Data Networking Architecture:
Alternative AB'
Distributed Routing with 100+ Mb Backbone
If the availability of the products needed to implement Alternative C becomes more distant, this alternative may provide some necessary solutions. It provides for a regionalized campus with several clusters of buildings connected together via 100+ Mb/sec technology, and fully distributed routing to each building.
Major features include:
Inter-building backbone: FDDI switch deployed to handle multiple FDDI rings (or other 100+ Mb/sec technology) required in this architecture. Central routing is only for outside or inter-campus connections.
Intra-building backbone: Clusters of buildings are connected to the backbone via 100+ Mb/sec technology (FDDI or fast ethernet) for increased bandwidth. Ethernet or fast ethernet switches deployed in all buildings reduce the size of the collision domain and provide a scalable building interconnection.
Please address comments or questions to Dr. Noam Arzt, arzt@isc.upenn.edu [6/18/96]
URL: http://nextb.dccs.upenn.edu/noam/questnet96/arch/alt-ab1.html