November 08, 2004
TRAPEZE NETWORKS PROVIDES WLAN CONNECTIVITY TO ALL ATTENDEES, EXHIBITORS AND STAFF AT THIS YEAR'S SUPER COMPUTING CONFERENCE
SC2004 Takes Place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA November 6-12, 2004
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Nov. 8, 2004 — Trapeze Networks™, maker of the award-winning wireless local area networking (WLAN) Mobility System, today announced that it is providing the Wi-Fi infrastructure for the world's fastest supercomputing network at the Supercomputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
The supercomputing infrastructure, known as SCinet, features a high-performance production-quality network and an extremely high-performance experimental network called Xnet, which runs advanced petabyte-intensive storage applications and connects scientific access-grid communities worldwide.
The Trapeze Mobility System delivers secure WLAN services to attendees, exhibitors and staff throughout the entire David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Using both 802.11a and 802.11b/g wireless RF bands, the Trapeze Mobility System covers 236,900 square feet of exhibit space and 186,591 square feet of meeting, classroom and presentation space.
To create SCinet, volunteers from network equipment vendors, educational institutions, high-performance computing centers, research networks, and telecommunication carriers worked together to design and deliver the infrastructure for the show. Planning for the deployment of SCinet begins more than a year in advance of each conference and culminates with a high-intensity installation just seven days before the conference begins.
"We expect up to 1,500 simultaneous users and close to 3,000 unique users during the seven-day conference," said Jamie Van Randwyk, security researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and wireless operations lead for Supercomputing 2004. "We teamed with Trapeze Networks because the Mobility System offers the security, scalability, reliability, seamless integration and manageability that make it an ideal wireless solution for such an important venue."
SCinet and Supercomputing 2004 are part of the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications. The Supercomputing conference series is co-sponsored by ACM SIGARCH and the IEEE Computer Society. For more information about the Supercomputing conference, please visit
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/.
About Trapeze Networks
Trapeze Networks delivers the power of business applications and services to the mobile enterprise workforce. The company's wireless LAN Mobility System enhances productivity, introduces new efficiencies and accelerates business response time by delivering secure mobility to users, pre and post deployment planning and management tools to IT, and seamless integration between wired and wireless. In the first four months of shipping its WLAN Mobility System, Trapeze has been the recipient of five industry awards in recognition of its product and technology strength. Founded in March 2002, Trapeze raised $50 million in venture funding to date and is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., U.S.A. For more information, please visit www.trapezenetworks.com.
