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CHALLENGE
Maintaining the diverse systems that run some of the worlds most advanced research projects.
PRODUCT
Finisar?s Surveyor/THG LAN monitoring and analysis suite
BENEFITS
THG/Surveyor provides Berkeley Lab Network Managers with a snapshot view of the health of the LAN at 5 second intervals. Finisar?s tools allow Berkelely Laboratory is able to run their large, critical network at peak performance, with limited resources
CASE STUDY
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Uses Finisar's Network Analysis and Monitoring Tools to Troubleshoot it?s Massive LAN
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory managed by the University of California and employs a staff of about 4,300, including guest researchers and students. Berkeley Lab conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated scientific computing as a tool for discovery. The computing infrastructure to support this advanced research is large and diverse, ranging from desktop systems of all types (PCs and Macs), Windows NT, Solaris and Linux-based server farms, to more specialized computers that are used for data acquisition and analysis in such scientific research efforts as the Advanced Light Source, the Joint Genome Institute, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and the 88inch Particle Accelerator. In total, more than 6,000 computers and nearly 13,000 network-attached devices are networked via LBLnet, which provides the enterprise LAN connectivity and infrastructure for Berkeley Lab. Users range from scientists to administrators accessing everything from Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases to highly specialized data generated by industrial computing equipment. The task of managing this massive network falls upon the LBLnet Services Group, an 11-member team that provides local area network (LAN) infrastructure and network connection support services to Berkeley Lab staff and research programs. In addition, LBLnet Services Group supports remote access services to provide network connectivity to LBLnet users not physically located on the site. The majority of LBLnet's connections are currently Fast Ethernet, with the distribution links running at Gigabit Ethernet or in the process of being upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet. Berkeley Lab has plans to migrate their core network to 10 Gigabit Ethernet before year-end. Several routers are connected via a star topology.
