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Taking place in Paris at Parc des expositions October 21st, 22nd and 23 rd 1997, Interop'97 in Paris is based exclusively on Bay Networks equipment. It is the largest L3 switched Network ever put in place for a Show.

Pictures from the show

The NOC 2, The NOC 3
NOC People
Noc People 2
Noc People 3
Contributer Banner
NOC Ped
Noc Ped equipment
Noc Ped Fiber
C Ped
C Ped Closeup
Network Management
Cable Plant

Note that Interop is organized by Softbank Forums, the other contributors for Interop'97 are ETDE as a system integrator, DE3I for Network Management, Colombaro for Sniffers, APC for the UPS, and FLUKE for the cable testing equipment.

Design of INTEROP'97 Backbone

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Description of INTEROP'97 Backbone

Bay Networks puts in place a fully switched backbone based on the Accelar 100 , the first of our L3 switching product. The backbone is a frame backbone based on 100 Meg Fast Ethernet links. The 100 Meg switched ports to the desktop are served with the BayStack 350 10/100 autosensing switches.

Each of the 7 racks is equipped with 2 Accelar 100 and 2 BS350. The NOC is concentrating all fibers into 2 Switch Nodes. A single BLN/2 router provides connectivity to the Internet Service Providers for an aggregate throughput of 8 + 8 Meg bps.

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