sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Chosen for Information Highway Projects SunFLASH Vol 63 #67 March 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63.67 Sun Chosen for "Information Highway" Projects Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced that it has been chosen as the computer supplier in four pilot projects developing innovative applications for the emerging "information highway." The four projects, which were awarded grants yesterday by Pacific Bell's CalREN (California Research and Education Network) trust fund, will focus on creating and testing high-speed networked applications that could cut costs, increase productivity and stimulate new markets for areas such as healthcare, education, research and publishing. (111 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUN CHOSEN AS TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIER IN FOUR INFORMATION HIGHWAY PILOT PROJECTS The most recent round of CalREN grants awarded a total of $2.6 million in high-speed networked services for six projects, four of which will use Sun(R) technology as the central computer platform. The projects involving Sun will be developed by four teams representing more than twenty businesses, schools and public agencies from Northern California. Over 95 organizations, including seven computer vendors, competed in this round of CalREN grants. Leading the industry in imaging price/performance and open network computing hardware and software, SMCC will provide enabling technologies that will allow the distribution of video, high resolution images and electronic journals over wide area networks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sun products to be used in the projects include SunATM(TM) (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) SBus cards, which support the high-speed data transfer rates essential to the pilot systems, as well as SPARCcenter(TM) 2000 servers and SPARCstation(TM) 10 systems running the Solaris(R) operating environment. The four projects are: - Regional Biomedical Information System: This project will explore electronic publishing, including text and image data, allowing researchers and scientists spread over a wide geographic area to easily access time-critical biomedical journals from their desktop computer. - Health Care Imaging Information: This project will explore the use of high-speed networks to collect and share still and video images of the human heart between tertiary care hospitals, where medical imaging services are performed, and the office of a patient's local physician. - Tele-education: Using interactive multimedia over high-speed networks, this project will test the use of video conferencing and other network-based applications for distance learning. - Neuro-Imaging Testbed Network: Linking several San Francisco Bay Area medical facilities, this project will allow physicians to quickly and easily share high-resolution neuro-images and associated medical data with other medical professionals. The CalREN trust, a $25 million fund created by Pacific Bell in 1993, provides Pacific Bell's high-speed ATM Cell Relay service and four other high-speed data communications services for the development of networked applications. CalREN award winners are selected by an external council made up of technology and community-of-interest experts. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), the world's top supplier of open network computing solutions, is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Built on Sun's legacy of "The Network is the Computer(TM)," SMCC's SPARC(R)/Solaris workstation and server family leads the UNIX market. The company has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. # # # Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, The Network is the Computer, SunATM and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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