Air Force climate center switches to 10-Gbps

The Air Force Combat Climatology Center in Asheville, N.C., is adopting 10-Gpbs switching technology to speed up the movement of data on its new
weather data network.

The AFCCC today selected a switching system from Topspin Communications Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., to help the center reduce hardware costs and
replace its existing server architecture with a cluster of commodity servers running the RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 operating system,
according to agency officials.