The CN 2000® Storage and LAN Extension Platform is designed to connect data centers over distance, reducing recurring bandwidth charges by up to 70 percent through hardware compression and Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment.

The CN 2000 Storage and LAN Extension Platform is designed to connect data centers over distance, reducing recurring bandwidth charges by up to 70 percent through hardware compression and Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment. The CN 2000 supports up to eight physically isolated Fibre Channel (FC), ESCON®, FICON®, and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and is up to 80 percent less expensive than traditional channel extenders and FCIP-based devices.

The CN 2000 allows a variety of applications, such as Storage Area Networking (SAN), Disk Mirroring, Remote Backup, Mainframe, LAN, Clustering, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) to share a single Wide Area Network (WAN) connection, simplifying network design and dramatically increasing bandwidth efficiency. Supporting WAN interfaces from DS3 through OC-48/STM-16 and GbE, the CN 2000 meets the most demanding enterprise requirements with the ability to scale as an enterprise's requirements change.

The CN 2000's compact footprint and plug-and-play design simplifies network operations.  And Ciena's ON-Center® CN 2000 Manager brings powerful network monitoring capabilities to inter-data center connectivity, enabling enterprises to easily view, analyze and report on the performance of the specific channels and the Metro Area Network (MAN)/WAN.

ESCON and FICON are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation.

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