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Gold Wire Technology announced today that its Formulator(R) 200 network configuration control appliance was purchased and deployed by San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). SDSC uses Formulator to provide configuration management and access control for its multi-vendor network at its national Network Performance Reference Lab (NPRL). NPRL is involved with testing and evaluating leading-edge, next generation networking hardware and software for government and industry, and was recently selected as the California Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). SDSC's California ITEC will test and evaluate next generation hardware and software for the development and deployment of advanced Internet applications and technologies. "It is all about uniformity in a national lab like ours with multiple users," said Kevin Walsh, director of SDSC's Network Performance Reference Lab (NPRL) and the California ITEC. "Formulator provides a uniform mechanism for access control, current-time configuration change detection and notification. Because various versions of configurations for the lab's multivendor equipment are centrally stored, students and researchers can move configurations in and out of equipment depending on the type of tests they are running."