Attendees:
Kevin Barron,
Nathan Freitas,
Steve Francis,
Roger Lenard,
Elise Meyer,
Larry Murdock,
Stephen Pope,
Kevin Schmidt,
Jason Simpson, and
Rob Bootsma
Unable to Attend:
Ben Humphrey,
Jim Frew,
Rich Prohaska,
Vince Sefcik, and
Ed Mehlschau
Equipment Donation Opportunity
Ramez Gerges of Caltrans needs to install an ATM switch for his project the
Testbed Center For Interoperability (TCFI). He has offered to make the
switch available to the campus for CalREN-2. We discussed that we needed
to learn more about the offer, and whether Caltrans could use the inter-campus
CalREN-2 network or not.
Note: On 11/25/97, Vince sent
out a message detailing the conditions.
CENIC TPG Progress
The CENIC Technical Planning Group decided that the inter-campus backbone
will consist of two parallel rings, one doing PoS and the other doing ATM.
The tail circuits (UCSB, UCSC, and UCD) would each have pure ATM. Now that
the technology for the inter-campus network has been decided, there is still
no date scheduled for the circuit order and installation date, and the
equipment order date. They are currently considering ATM switches from
Fore, Cisco and Newbridge. The GSR's are a Cisco product. The current
estimate for having bits flow on the inter-campus network is sometime in
March, but it is unknown whether UCSB's circuit will take longer than that
to install.
Switch Selection
We are considering two current configurations.
Elise
relayed feedback that we might want to consider going with the ATM switch
that the TPG chooses in order to simplify troubleshooting (and finger pointing).
Steve Francis noted that that wasn't as big an issue between the UCSB backbone
switches and the CENIC ATM switch as it was between the UCSB backbone switches
and the research group switches.
A spreadsheet summarizing the vendors'
RFI responses (PDF) was distributed.
Action Items for Next Meeting: December 4, 1997
- Each vendor sponsor needs to verify the information on the
spreadsheet for their products and get any changes to Elise
prior to our next meeting. The most important questions are
indicated by a "*" on the following
list.
- Vendors should be returning their price information by December
1, 1997. Any responses should be forwarded to the mailing list.
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