Case Studies

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CMRC wanted to dramatically speed up its connection to a research facility on the nearby campus of Northwestern University. This would allow CMRC to enjoy real-time collaboration and data sharing with their colleagues at Northwestern, as well as in other research centers around the world.

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City of Hope research ranges from chemistry to biology to computational physics in the pursuit of greater knowledge and understanding of cancer. As a leading research facility in genomic medicine and for the Human Genome Project City of Hope generates a staggering 2 to 4 terabytes a week for the Human Genome project studies alone. The ability to securely transfer, retrieve, and store the terabytes of data being generated is paramount. The need for a high capacity, high performance network infrastructure is necessary to transmit very large data files to their new state of the art data center facility. City of Hope’s data network needs to be fast, highly secure and reliable.

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Presented with the challenge of reducing both scheduled and unscheduled downtime, the IT Infrastructure division at Cooper University Hospital, along with Cisco Systems and Dimension Data, redesigned the core of their network to achieve 100% redundancy, scale bandwidth, and reduce complexity by eliminating a complex protocol (migrated from ATM to Gigabit Ethernet). In order to implement this design, divergent and separate physical fiber paths were required, and the current service provider (AT&T) was incapable of doing so as part of the existing SONET Ring. CUH then sought out comparative designs from multiple carriers including Sunesys, which already had been leveraged to connect outlying outpatient practice back to a main node on the core network. What Sunesys was able to provide that the other carries were not, was a truly simplistic dark fiber solution that allowed for exponential bandwidth scalability without an additional cost to the carrier. No other carrier was able to propose a solution that unbundled an unneeded and undesired managed service, which essentially doubled their cost in comparison to Sunesys.

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Englewood Hospital and Medical Center required a unifying network solution that could keep up with the bandwidth and data transfer needs of their three locations.

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Sunesys was contracted to build and maintain a fiber optic wide area network (WAN) to provide connectivity between a central hub location and six remote sites. Hillside needed the ability to transfer data in addition to connecting the old phone system using RAD boxes to essential create VoIP between the buildings. Ultimately, the network allowed Hillside to remove 10 T-1 lines that the district had relied on previously.

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A major research university with an annual budget of over $2B and more than $350 million in research grants, Northwestern is seeking to optimize communication not only between its two campuses, but also across the country and around the world. "Our bandwidth demands between our two campuses were escalating so rapidly that it became difficult to control our budget as we continued to 'pay by the pound' for bandwidth," explains Dr. Morteza A. Rahimi, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Northwestern University. "The very nature of high-level research requires that faculty and researchers have unlimited freedom to explore data in minute detail and exchange information from the farthest reaches of the globe. We need a solution that will not place any restrictions on the important work our research teams are doing."

In addition to research, Northwestern Voice over IP and IP video initiatives continue to demand greater bandwidth and require constant availability. The Sunesys fiber optic solution allows Northwestern to have unlimited redundant bandwidth at a fixed cost and upgrade its own electronics as needed. "We felt it was important to have a network that was exclusively ours—with separate routes and separate landings on both campuses--so a single failure would cause no disruption of services," notes Dr. Rahimi.

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NutriSystem wanted to connect a new administration building with a Data Center as part of their Wide Area Network to facilitate VOIP and data. When NutriSystem's original carrier was acquired by a phone company, it was unable to provide the dark fiber solution NutriSystem needed.

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Previously, the district employed a 297-circuit frame relay wide area network and voice network. Sunesys was contracted to build and maintain a fiber optic MAN to provide connectivity through four core rings between 22 sites with point-to-point spurs out to the remaining 270+ facilities.

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When Trion opened a new facility in Conshohocken, four miles from its King of Prussia headquarters, it needed to make all data stored at King of Prussia accessible to its Conshohocken staff. Upon discovering that the cost from the phone company to connect the buildings was unreasonably high and would increase every time they needed to add bandwidth, Trion contacted Sunesys.

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Villanova’s multi-location network includes two commodity Internet feeds supplied by two different providers. The university’s Internet access—including the last mile—rests in the hands of the outside providers. Costs to add additional Internet bandwidth continued to escalate and Villanova desired to maintain more control over Internet access.

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The Board of Education recently entered into an agreement with Sunesys LLC to install and create a high-speed fiber optic network in all of the district's schools and educational facilities. Installation is expected to start soon, with a completion date set for December 2007 and conversion to fiber optics by January 2008.

School officials say this is the right time to install the new system because the new schools under construction by the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp. are built only for high-speed fiber optics.