Campus Networking Opportunities for Metropolitan Area Network Services

The demand and opportunities for Metropolitan Area Network Services are great in large campus networking environments. Universities and Medical Centers are good examples. Universities typically have both centralized and distributed computing needs in their academic, administrative and research and scientific computing applications. 

Therefore, networking of heterogeneous systems and networks is a key requirement. Likewise, hospital/ healthcare communities are very information intensive and require the movement & management of both images as well as data. Opportunities to employ MAN capabilities to address these environments are described in this paper.