PLDT-Ateneo Advanced Network Testbed Receives Equipment Donation from Nortel
Nortel Philippines together with PLDT has donated two (2) Nortel Optera Metro 4150s to the PLDT-Ateneo Advanced Network Testbed. This is an SDH system capable of provisioning up to three (3) DS3s (45 mbps) and sixteen E1s (2 mbps). This equipment will be replacing the old PDH equipment currently being used by the Network Testbed.
The PLDT-Ateneo Advanced Network Testbed is a one-of-a-kind facility allows Ateneo students to perform experiments with network technology using a fiber optic connection from the Ateneo Broadband Access Technology Lab in PLDT-CTC, Loyola Heights, Quezon City to PLDT’s Innolab Facility in Dansalan, Mandaluyong.
The official Ateneo press release handed out during the event:
Nortel Philippines, a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information, will formally turn over its donation of state-of-the-art fiber optic transmission equipment to the Ateneo de Manila University on 16 March 2006. The turnover ceremony will be held at the PLDT Convergent Technologies Center at the Loyola Heights campus.
Expected to grace the event are Antonio Pio de Roda, managing director of Nortel Philippines; Elisa B. Gesalta, Vice President of the Operations Engineering and Provisioning Center of PLDT; Dr. Anna-Miren Gonzalez-Intal, Vice President for the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo; Dr. Fabian M. Dayrit, Dean of the Ateneo School of Science and Engineering; and Dr. Rosula S.J. Reyes, chair of the Ateneo Department of Electronics, Computer and Communications Engineering (ECCE Department).
The new equipment will benefit students using the PLDT-Ateneo Advanced Network Testbed, a research facility of the Broadband Access Technology Laboratories (BAT Labs) of the ECCE department.
This donation is interesting as now there is a lot of capacity between PLDT and Ateneo. Some projects that can be done:
- Internet Engineering Research. We can get a route to I-Gate’s, Vitro’s and PHIX’s core routers and routinely dump full BGP routing tables to a router collector on campus. This router collector can then use this data to perform a number of studies such as Internet mapping, latency testing and others.
- Quality-of-Sevice Experiments. Students can create traffic generators on both ends to simulate the flow of traffic on these links. They can then customize various TOS and QOS parameters to determine how to support various network traffic profiles.
- Advanced Routing Strategies. Experiments to perform failover and load balancing on multi-WAN links using various strategies including, but not limited to, BGP routing, intelligent routing agents and others.
Aside from experiments which will be performed by Ateneo students and researchers, I would also be nice to ask if PLDT can have us cross-connect a DS3 to I-Gate or even just the Vitro Internet Exchange or Philippine Internet Exchange.
Migs Paraz also has coverage of this event in Pinoy Tech Blog.
