Kapsch – Partnering to Maximize Optical Network Assets (pdf)
To expand its coverage into new markets for telecom transmission products, Kapsch Group sought a network solution that would offer maximum flexibility and scalability, as well as high levels of innovation, to launch new services as demand unfolds.
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IBM - Advanced Optical Networking Solutions (pdf)
Ciena, an IBM Alliance Partner and global leader in advanced optical and data network systems, provides a series of economical optical network solutions that address data center interconnectivity challenges. Ciena’s solutions support IBM GDPS®/System Timing Protocol (STP) environments and replication applications—such as Global Mirror, Metro Mirror (PPRC) and z/OS® Global Mirror—with industry-unique multiplexing functionality that lowers bandwidth costs and TCO.
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EMC - Partnering to Deliver Multiservice Optical Transport Solutions (pdf)
Ciena’s ActivSpan 4200 Advanced Services Platform is a Coarse/Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM/DWDM) product that has been qualified by EMC® for extended distance connectivity, supporting Symmetrix® and CLARiiON® Network Storage Systems using Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF®) Software over Fibre Channel, and ESCON®, MirrorView™ Remote Mirroring Software over FC connections, and both SAN Copy™ Software and Block I/O over FC.
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EMC - Partnering to Deliver Distance Replication Solutions (pdf)
The replication of business critical data to multiple geographically dispersed facilities enables a robust, highly available framework for business continuity and disaster recovery. Ciena’s CN 2000® Storage Extension Platform enables enterprises to leverage their EMC storage assets and cost-effectively build efficient and robust storage networks within a campus environment, or to remote data centers and backup recovery sites. Ciena’s CN 2000 has been qualified by EMC as an extended distance connectivity solution to support Symmetrix® and CLARiiON® Network Storage Systems, using Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF®) Software over Fibre Channel (FC), and ESCON®, MirrorView™ Remote Mirroring Software over FC connections, and both SAN Copy™ Software and Block I/O over FC.
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Brocade - Extending the Power of Networked Storage (pdf)
Brocade and Ciena, market leaders in SANs and MAN/WAN solutions respectively, have partnered to provide bundled solutions that will help customers reduce the OPEX associated with high availability BC/DR solutions. Their joint offering increases the options available to customers in extending their SANs and enables them to minimize the BC/DR project costs whether the application is FC-, ESCON®-, FICON®- or GbE-based, while achieving the highest performance and the most economical solution for SAN, MAN and WAN networking.
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Hitachi - Delivering High-Availability Solutions (pdf)
Enterprises need a truly multiservice solution that is transparent to underlying applications and can aggregate multiple, disparate service connections onto a single fiber or even a single wavelength, with the shortest delay and highest reliability. The ActivSpan 4200 is just such a solution.
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