But your mother wouldn't notice if her e-mail arrived a few seconds later. In fact, she might not read it for hours. The ITTC team, which includes Evans, Gary J. Minden, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Sprint employees, and Whiting and two other KU graduate students, Steven Pennington and Kelly Stump, is using advanced networking gear like that used by the major carriers. We have the unique ability to model a real carrier backbone, gather real data, and set up test scenarios. By modeling a network, the team will find ways to improve it.
Whiting welcomes the chance to play with a network system.
A former senior network engineer with Sprint in Washington, D.C., he was responsible for the upkeep of Sprint's backbone routers. As an ITTC researcher, he can create and then solve problems within the test system. Through this research, we help to bring up the standards and to address an important problem. This site is maintained by University Relations, the public relations office for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus. Copyright 1999, the University of Kansas Office of University Relations, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A. Images may be reused with notice of copyright, but not altered.