AURORA Gigabit Testbed

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Selected Milestones

Date

Milestone

5/6/93

MCI 2.4 Gb/s OC-48 SONET backbone operational Penn <=> Bellcore

5/7/93

End-to-end data between workstations at Penn and Bellcore,

interoperating Penn and Bellcore ATM host interfaces

5/19/93

Sunshine switches ATM cells between IBM RS/6000

at Penn and IBM RS/6000 at Bellcore

6/7/93

Penn and Bellcore ATM interfaces interoperate through Sunshine

6/8/93

End-to-end video over ATM from Penn workstation

w/Penn video card to Bellcore workstation display

6/9/93

MIT comes on line, loops VuNet video with ATM over SONET

6/10/93

IBM comes on line, loops Planet/ORBIT video with PTM over SONET

8/14/93

285 Mbps user-user, OSIRIS+Mach+x-Kernel at U. Arizona

10/26/93

2nd Sunshine operational, at Penn

11/12/93

Full-motion A/V teleconference over PTM/SONET, Penn <=> IBM

12/31/93

25 Mbps TCP/IP over AURORA switched loopback

2/25/94

‘Cheap VideoATM appliance running over AURORA

3/15/94

TeleMentoring’ interactive distance learning over AURORA

Penn <=> Bellcore using Cheap Video

3/30/94

70 Mbps TCP/IP over AURORA between RS/6000s

4/17/94

MNFS/AIX solving differential heat equations over AURORA

4/21/94

Cheap Video II, w/audio VC operational Penn <=> Bellcore, AND

IBM PVS IBM <=> over PlaNET, AND VuNet Penn <=> MIT

5/6/94

Cheap Video II in operation Penn <=> MIT

Collaborators

The AURORA collaborators were Bell Atlantic, Bellcore, IBM, MCI, MIT, NYNEX, U. Arizona and U. Penn.   The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Cooperative Agree- ment NCR-8919038 with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.

       Figure 1
Figure 1: AURORA Geography
 
       Figure 2
Figure 2: Partial AURORA Logical Topology



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