November 12, 2007

RENO, Nevada -- A consortium of researchers has joined Anagran Inc., a provider of broadband flow networking technology, to demonstrate a High-Performance Flow Switching Network, or HPFSnet, at the Supercomputing 2007 conference in Reno, Nevada this week.

HPFSnet provides a preview of the future of the Internet by demonstrating for the first time how all high speed, broadband traffic on a national network can be managed as individually controlled flows. This ensures the highest quality end-user experience for multiple differentiated, high performance services. Because the Internet is currently used by nearly all applications as a generalized service, many advanced applications and services such as data intensive computing, digital media, 3D modeling and simulation, medical imaging, distributed data management, and distributed transaction processing, are difficult and expensive to deploy and support. By moving from a single, common service to multiple, specialized services, HPFSnet addresses the most complex technical challenges that currently limit the provisioning of a diverse range of next-generation network services. In addition, HPFSnet allows for the precise management of highly utilized transmission resources.

HPFSnet showcases the ability of the Anagran FR-1000 to separate all data traffic into distinct flows that can be managed using sophisticated flow control engineering techniques. The FR-1000 provides fine-grained control over all network traffic as it travels across the network. This control can be used to provide high quality communication services across an enterprise, across the nation, or across the world. These capabilities allow for the precisely targeted delivery of specifically defined levels of service to support any type of application, including the most demanding, high performance, high-definition digital media.

“Next-generation applications require a network that can economically deliver services transparently to end users over a converged multi-service network, regardless of the traffic mix or distances between traffic source and destination,” said Larry Roberts, founder and chairman of Anagran. “The Anagran flow technology enables these next-generation applications to thrive without being limited by the network itself. And it does so economically, as a drop-in device that eases the migration from current packet-only Internet to the flow-enhanced Internet of tomorrow.”

Joe Mambretti, Director of iCAIR, said “The Internet is transitioning from the limitations of a single generic service. It is becoming a robust platform that can support many new services and applications, including those with extremely demanding data flows. The FR-1000 is a major contributor to next generation application and media delivery.”

The demonstration at SC07 was designed and implemented on a 10 Gbps national network created between Chicago and Reno based on national TeraFlow Network, the National Lambda Rail (NLR), the StarLight international communications exchange, and SCInet at the conference center. The demonstration partners included Anagran, International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the National Center for Data Mining at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National LamdaRail, and the StarLight communications exchange.

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About Anagran
www.anagran.com
Anagran was founded by Internet pioneer Dr. Larry Roberts, recognized as one of the founding fathers of The Internet. Dr. Roberts developed the first computer-to-computer network and led the team that designed and developed ARPANET, the world's first major computer packet network. He also wrote the first email application and founded the first telecommunications carrier company, Telenet, which was eventually sold to GTE and subsequently became the data division of Sprint. Dr. Roberts leads a respected and seasoned management team from companies such as Cisco, Juniper, and Peribit. Anagran’s flow technology eliminates the potentially crippling effects of traffic congestion to enable video, voice, data and wireless traffic to co-exist with flawless quality over converged IP networks. Anagran’s FR-1000 consistently delivers the highest levels of guaranteed performance and quality in both service provider and enterprise networks, while significantly reducing overall network costs and energy consumption.

About the International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University (iCAIR)
www.icair.org
iCAIR accelerates leading-edge innovation and enhanced global communications through advanced Internet technologies, in partnership with the international community, and national partners. The Center, which was created in partnership with a number of major high tech corporations, designs and implements large scale infrastructure and applications (metro, regional, national, and global). The Center has designed multiple advanced research testbeds, which are used to develop new communications architecture, services and technology. iCAIR also participates in the operations of advanced networks and facilities, such as StarLight, a unique global network exchange in Chicago.

About the National Center for Data Mining
www.ncdm.uic.edu
The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) was founded in 1998 as a national resource for high-performance and distributed data mining. NCDM performs research, hosts standards, operates testbeds, and engages in outreach. The Center coordinates the development of the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), a standard for statistical and data mining models, and operates the Teraflow Network, a network for distributing large e-science datasets.

About National LambdaRail
www.nlr.net
National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications. NLR puts the control, the power and the promise of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of our nation's scientists and researchers.

About StarLight
www.startap.net/starlight
StarLight is an advanced optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance, large scale national and global applications. Operational since summer 2001, StarLight has 1GE and 10GE switch/router facilities and true optical switching for wavelengths. StarLight is being developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University, and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, in partnership with Canada's CANARIE and the Netherlands' SURFnet.

Contact:
Joe Mambretti
International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR)
j-mambretti @ northwestern.edu