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March 31, 1998 (HONG KONG) -- Anixter Inc., a U.S. networking and
cabling solutions company, built an ATM backbone network for
Airbus Industrie China at its new CASC-Airbus Training Center in
Beijing.
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Under the contract, worth US$250,000, Anixter supplied the
Training Center with six Bay Networks Inc. Centillion 100 ATM
switches and 20 BayStack hubs.
Anixter also enhanced the original network topology, effectively
changing the specifications from those recommended by Airbus
specialists in Toulouse, France.
"Toulouse recommended a star topology with all servers connected
to a single C100," said Ronald Fons, director of professional
services at Anixter Greater China.
"We reviewed the requirements and suggested that the topology
should be changed to a fully meshed backbone, so that each
multimedia server can connect to three of the five switches. As a
result, we can provide Airbus with a fully redundant solution,"
Fons said.
Located near the Capital Airport in Beijing, the CASC-Airbus
Training Center is a joint venture between China Aviation
Supplies Import and Export Corp. (CASC) and Airbus Industrie
China. The center is part of an Airbus Industrie global training
and support network.
The center specializes in video-based training. The supporting
infrastructure consists of more than 60 client PCs and four
servers running Novell NetWare. Each server is connected to the
C100s by three dedicated fast Ethernet links, for built-in
redundancy, and each PC is connected to a C100 via a dedicated
Ethernet link, according to Anixter.
"We were very impressed with the reference sites Anixter put
forward, particularly the North China Power Group, which has four
Centillion switches in a full-mesh topology," said Roger Poentis,
external sites director, Information Services at Airbus
Industrie.
"Anixter installed all of the equipment in a week, delivering a
physical and logical full-mesh, highly resilient ATM backbone,"
he said.
The company has already tested the system. Each C100 was
connected to the other four via four 155Mbps ATM links. Even
after cutting three of the four links, the C100s remained
connected. When the video applications were tested, the 60 PCs
ran the program concurrently and the playback on each of them was
smooth.
The CASC-Airbus Training Center is part of the first combined
aerospace training and customer support site in China. The site
comprises three separate buildings for training, spare parts
servicing and Airbus Industrie China offices, with a total area
of 40,000 sq. m.
The 8,200-sq.-m. training center features advanced training,
including video and computer-based instruction classrooms,
procedure trainers, cabin crew trainers and flight simulators for
the Airbus A320 and A340 planes. The 5,000-sq.-m. support center
maintains a stock of more than 16,000 parts and is able to
satisfy 80 percent of spare part servicing requests from Airbus
operators in China and the region.
Related story: Bay to Construct Data Network for China Power
(Keith Chan, Asia BizTech Correspondent)
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