Due to rapid data growth and internal disaster recovery initiatives, the University of California Davis (UC Davis) Medical Center’s storage requirements and business needs had begun to exceed the capacity of its existing infrastructure, contained within a single data center.

To address these issues, UC Davis Medical Center deployed Ciena’s CN 2000® Storage Extension Solution. With the CN 2000, the Medical Center leveraged its existing fiber infrastructure and storage investments to create an affordable, reliable, and secure storage and business continuance network. By natively carrying mission-critical FC, GbE, and ESCON traffic in flexible SONET/SDH payloads and transporting it over their existing fiber network, UC Davis Medical Center gained additional capacity to meet their growing storage needs and a cost-effective, high performance solution that ensured data protection.  Additionally, the Medical Center has dramatically increased the operational efficiency of its existing fiber network and significantly reduced the cost per byte of transporting data. It is also reducing operating costs by allocating bandwidth based on application need