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Advanced
voice and data network to let Millennium IT programmers "work in the
open air"
Work began last week on one of the msot advanced communications networks to be built for a Sri Lankan enterprise. Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) Chief Executive Officer Shuhei Anan and Manju Haththotuwa, Chief Operating Officer of Millennium Information Technologies signed an implementation and service contract for the installation of a high-capacity fibre-optic voice and data link to Millennium IT's new corporate headquarters at Malabe. The Millennium IT corporate headquarters, currently nearing completion, is designed according to the Silicon Valley "campus" concept, with research and development facilities separate from the administrative and marketing buildings. A wide range of facilities, such as guest accommodation, restaurants, a creche and a swimming pool are dotted about the 17-acre site. The SLT link forms the front end of a communications network connecting every facility and work station on the campus. The network was conceived by Millennium IT's own design architects, working in collaboration with SLT's broadband communications experts. It sends both voice and electronic data signals through the same cables using AVVID, a high-tech "architecture for voice, video and integrated data" created by Cisco Systems, one of Millennium IT's international technical partners. The capacity of the network is massive; according to Kithsiri Senaratne, Millennium IT's Director of Enterprise Services. Even company-wide video conferences could be held over it. The system is highly reliable, with every connection fully backed up. Fibre-optic cables are ideal for such high-capacity networks because they transmit data in the form of flashes of light, unlike ordinary copper wires, which can only carry a relatively limited amount of information in the form of electronic impulses. In addition to the SLT link, fibre-optic links will connect the buildings on the Millennium IT campus to each other. By the end of the project, several miles of optical cable will have been laid. But the network extends even beyond this. Using Cisco Aeronaut wireless networking technology, Millennium IT Staff will be able to work and communicate from various outdoor locations on campus. Millennium Information Technologies' state-of-the-art communications network is scheduled for completion by August. |
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