Case Study 1 Laying a Strong Foundation As the leader of a consortium of all academic metropolitan area networks (MANs) and high-performance computing centers in Poland, PSNC is playing a key role in developing and integrating an information infrastructure for science, research, and education within Poland and internationally. Over the past 20 years, PSNC has been building the physical fiber-optic infrastructure to support the development of MANs within Poland’s 21 major cities, then connecting the cities with more than 7,000 km of fiber-optic cabling. However, PSNC’s aging network equipment wasn’t able to keep up, and PSNC had to modernize its network equipment to harness the potential provided by its modern broadband infrastructure. PSNC operates Poland’s domestic fiber-optic n

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