Traffic Administration of a Corporate Wide Area Network

In this talk we will report on the development of a traffic administration software system planned for use in administering a private AT&T Corporate Wide-Area Network (CWAN). CWAN is a nationwide network which provides transport of AT&T internal asynchronous data traffic for 80,000 terminals (including personal computers) which access 10 - 20,000 host ports in 70 data and minicomputer centers. This network is used by sales branch offices and data centers operations personnel for a variety of business applications such as the AT&T Branch Automation Platform. This network is based on a hierarchical architecture which uses Datakit VCS switches and concentrators.