The lab was originally founded through funding from the General Services Administration in 1995, and, while it continues to play an important role in supporting GSA's telecommunications needs today, it has also become a broad research and development vehicle, supporting many of Mitretek's MSRs as well as other clients. And we have recently added revolutionary ADSL modems, which can offer a breathtaking 6000 kbps over the same phone lines that we use today. For those interested in LAN equipment, we have several routers from Bay Networks and Cisco Systems which support 10 Mbit Ethernet.
Application software is also an important component of the lab.
We make use of network management software, protocol analyzers, network visualization tools, web servers, electronic commerce software, and much more. The area of telecommunications and networking has grown very fast and is vital to any major organization. And, as such, there is a variety of interesting work to be done. We have recently established a test bed for IPv6, which, over the next 5 to 10 years, will replace today's IPv4. And another group is exploring video over ADSL lines to aid in traffic surveillance.