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OCR: ETHERNET SWITCHING ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S DCC LAB NETWORKS Legend: LB 2000 (ONE!) Ethernet switch Solaris host PC I Solaris serve AcIS 13 Macintosh @ Primary interfaces -columbia IBM host # Secondary interfaces 31 SunOS server - Ethernet wire SunOS host ATM wire 155Mbps .Cs @ DCC 25 PSL 24 FIGURE 1: At Columbia University's Distributed Computing and Communications lab, network management, high-speed switching, and multimedia research required hefty throughput capacity. When the lab began to push the edges of its technology envelope, the existing hub was replaced with an Ethernet switch, which links multiple generations of machines.