Lucent Technologies has announced that its award-winning Cajun P550 Gigabit Switch powered the local area network (LAN) that was at the heart of the annual Quake Convention (QUAKECON), held at the Mesquite Convention Center and Exhibition Hall, August 6-8. Lucent was also one of show`s official sponsors.
More than 1,000 people from around the world attended QUAKECON `99, the industry`s leading online computer gaming event, where fans of id Software`s popular QUAKE game and other titles gather to participate in tournaments and attend a variety of gaming workshops.
At QUAKECON `99, two of Lucent`s fault-tolerant Cajun P550 Switches served as the foundation of the event`s critical core network infrastructure. The P550 Switch - with its back plane switching capacity of 45.76 gigabits per second - provides the high throughput necessary to handle and propel enormous data traffic loads across a network of computers quickly and simply.
With its ability to combine 10 megabits per second (Mbps) Ethernet, 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and 1,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet modules in the same chassis, the 7-slot Cajun P550 is designed for campus-wide backbone networks and easily scales as network bandwidth requirements grow.
Lucent`s P550 is a member of the company`s Cajun Campus portfolio of enterprise Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and multifunction LAN switches.
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ID Software
id Software is a leading independent developer of entertainment software whose titles, such as Wolfenstein 3-D, DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE and QUAKE II, have consistently broken shareware and retail sales records at home and abroad.
Cajun and P550 are trademarks of Lucent Technologies. QUAKE is a registered trademark and the id Software name is a trademark of id Software, Inc.