HERSHEY, Pa., June 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Business
today announced it is providing a 100 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps)
Ethernet connection between the recently opened University
Technology Center on the campus of the Penn State Health Milton S.
Hershey Medical Center in Hershey,
Pennsylvania, and the university's primary data center at
University Park. It is the largest
network operated by Comcast Business in the Eastern United States and the third 100 Gbps
Ethernet network the company has constructed across the
country.
"The new data center will help make personalized medicine more
of a reality for patients and their providers," said Jim Broach, director of the Penn State Institute
for Personalized Medicine and chair of the Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. "Data that used to take days,
weeks or even months to analyze now may soon be processed in a
matter of minutes or hours."
The dedicated, high-performance Ethernet Private Line service
will enable patient, research and educational data to bypass the
public Internet and be transmitted reliably over a private
connection that is ideal for mission-critical and sensitive data
applications. The 46,000-square-foot University Technology Center,
dedicated in May, will utilize big data to enhance patient care
through disease modeling and predictors for disease by more
efficiently processing and analyzing clinical information.
As the backup location for Penn
State's primary data center, the University Technology
Center in Hershey will also serve
an integral role in the university's disaster recovery plan. The
100 Gbps Ethernet Private Line will help Penn
State ensure access to critical data even in the event of an
outage.
"Offering Ethernet services that can scale to 100 Gbps of
network capacity is a growing trend as businesses of all sizes rely
on data to run their business more effectively," said Paul Merritt, vice president of Comcast Business
in the Keystone Region. "Our Ethernet services complement the
healthcare industry's fast-paced working environment, and our
24/7/365 network monitoring and support through our Network
Operations Center helps ensure that we are delivering the
high-speed, reliable services that our customers expect from us
every day."
This is the second example of an educational institution
recognizing the benefits of a fast, dedicated connection in a
matter of months. In December, the K-20 Education Network in
Washington State began using a 100
Gbps Ethernet Virtual Private Line from Comcast Business to support
more than 100 higher education institutions, K-12 school districts
and libraries across the region. In California, two 100 Gbps Ethernet Dedicated
Internet lines from Comcast Business will help power the Golden 1
Center, home of the Sacramento Kings.
About Comcast Corporation:
Comcast Corporation
(Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and technology company
with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal.
Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed
Internet and phone providers to residential customers under the
XFINITY brand and also provides these services to businesses.
NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports cable
networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television
production operations, television station groups, Universal
Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit
www.comcastcorporation.com for more information.
About Comcast Cable:
Comcast Cable is one of the
nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider to
residential customers under the XFINITY brand and also provides
these services to businesses. Comcast has invested in
technology to build an advanced network that delivers among the
fastest broadband speeds, and brings customers personalized video,
communications and home management offerings. Comcast
Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and technology
company. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for more
information.
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