BONN, Germany - Wednesday, November
21st 2012 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE/ME
NewsWire)-- 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.
Contacts
Deutsche Telekom AG
International Carrier Sales &
Solutions
Lisa Elisabeth Krenz
Tel.: +49 (0) 228 936 19588
E-mail: e.krenz@telekom.de
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