Deutsche Telekom links CERN sites in Geneva and Budapest with high-speed, 100-gigabit data connection
November 21 2012 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Super-fast transmission for super-fast particles: Deutsche
Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), part of
Deutsche Telekom’s International Businesses unit, working in
conjunction with the local legal entity T-Systems Switzerland, has
been appointed to provide a high-speed data connection between the
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) data centre in
Geneva and a newly established, remote data centre operated by
Wigner Research Centre for Physics in the Hungarian capital
Budapest. The Ethernet connection supports transmission speeds up
to 100 gigabits per second.
In Geneva, CERN operates the world’s biggest particle
accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This facility allows
scientists to explore the structure of matter and the fundamental
interactions between elementary particles. The experiments generate
huge volumes of data. To process them, CERN and partner institutes
have developed a distributed computing system, the so-called
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). More than 10,000 researchers
around the world use CERN’s computing infrastructure for their
experiments.
With the Wigner Data Centre, CERN aims to create additional IT
capacity for research activities. Computer systems will be able to
transmit enormous volumes of data via the high-speed Deutsche
Telekom ICSS connection between the Geneva and Budapest sites. In
addition to huge data rates, CERN requires high data transmission
reliability and connection availability. The research organization
sought a telecommunications service provider able to meet these
extremely demanding gigabit Ethernet requirements.
T-Systems Switzerland worked in close cooperation with ICSS to
meet CERN’s needs. “We believe our deep technical expertise and
network quality were key,” said Holger Magnussen, Senior Vice
President, International Carrier Sales & Solutions, at Deutsche
Telekom. “We were able to make a tailored offer within a relatively
short time through the close collaboration of experts from
T-Systems Switzerland and the International Carrier Sales &
Solutions and Global Network units.”
“The state-of-the-art Deutsche Telekom 100 gigabits per second
circuit between CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in
Budapest will not only expand our physics processing capabilities,
but will also allow us to refine our Business Continuity strategy.
This new contract strengthens our existing relationship, since
Deutsche Telekom has been a long-standing member of the CERN
Internet Exchange Point (CIXP) and one of the regular providers of
CERN's connectivity to the commodity Internet,” said David Foster,
Deputy Head of the CERN IT Department.
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated
telecommunications companies with almost 130 million mobile
customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million
broadband lines (as of June 30, 2012). The Group provides products
and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the
Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business
customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in
around 50 countries and has over 233,000 employees worldwide. The
Group generated revenues of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial
year – more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31,
2011).
About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales &
Solutions (ICSS)
International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), an integral
part of Deutsche Telekom’s International Businesses unit within the
Europe organization, is the global communications enabler of the
Deutsche Telekom Group and more than 700 external customers
worldwide. As one of the largest carriers in the world, ICSS
provides global voice communication, Internet connectivity to
millions of eyeballs, and global roaming and messaging on next
generation platforms, as well as smart content distribution, media
exchange, and virtual carrier solutions. The international
customers of ICSS experience seamless service provisioning,
including global reach, and the highest quality. The variety of
solutions provided by ICSS is based on an expanding ultramodern
infrastructure: Deutsche Telekom’s international network.
For further information, see www.telekom-icss.com.
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