University of California Davis Medical Center (pdf)
UC Davis Medical Center made substantial investments in its storage platforms and network infrastructure, but was quickly exceeding its storage capacity and required an affordable storage extension solution that could support its existing and future storage and business continuance needs. By deploying Ciena’s Storage-over-SONET solution, the Medical Center was able to leverage its existing investments to gain a high performance, reliable and affordable storage extension for long-term growth.
UC Davis Medical Center made substantial investments in its storage platforms and network infrastructure, but was quickly exceeding its storage capacity and required an affordable storage extension solution that could support its existing and future storage and business continuance needs. By deploying Ciena’s Storage-over-SONET solution, the Medical Center was able to leverage its existing investments to gain a high performance, reliable and affordable storage extension for long-term growth.
Florida Power & Light (pdf)
Florida Power & Light's Energy Marketing & Trading and Energy Power Marketing Groups operate energy trading and asset optimization 24/7. These operations demand the highest availability systems possible, including a high performance storage extension solution. The large electric utility chose Ciena's CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform to reduce the cost, complexity, and latency of its entire network solution, which also includes EMC Symmetrix Network Storage Systems directly connected to the CN 2000s. With the CN 2000, FPL's SONET OC-3 service delivers perfect quality of service (QoS) with the lowest possible latency, and without requiring intermediate IP routers or ATM switches.
Florida Power & Light's Energy Marketing & Trading and Energy Power Marketing Groups operate energy trading and asset optimization 24/7. These operations demand the highest availability systems possible, including a high performance storage extension solution. The large electric utility chose Ciena's CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform to reduce the cost, complexity, and latency of its entire network solution, which also includes EMC Symmetrix Network Storage Systems directly connected to the CN 2000s. With the CN 2000, FPL's SONET OC-3 service delivers perfect quality of service (QoS) with the lowest possible latency, and without requiring intermediate IP routers or ATM switches.
University of Miami (pdf)
With multiple key locations across southern Florida, the University of Miami (UM) recently decided to converge its voice and data services onto a single optical network to ensure maximum efficiency and reliability. By implementing Ciena’s CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator, UM’s network effectively addresses the growing demand for data-centric applications, like video and storage, while seamlessly interfacing with existing routers and switches.
With multiple key locations across southern Florida, the University of Miami (UM) recently decided to converge its voice and data services onto a single optical network to ensure maximum efficiency and reliability. By implementing Ciena’s CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator, UM’s network effectively addresses the growing demand for data-centric applications, like video and storage, while seamlessly interfacing with existing routers and switches.
ComputerWorld: Children's Hospital in Denver (pdf)
Children's Hospital split its storage clusters, with half at the disaster recovery site and the rest at the main data center downtown. The key to making this work is a very fast, responsive network connection using Ciena's Adaptive WAN products running over a private 2 Gb/s fiber physical layer. The network uses EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility and MirrorView to support synchronous backup of all data to the disaster recovery site, resulting in less than five minutes to fail-over, validate and move on.
Children's Hospital split its storage clusters, with half at the disaster recovery site and the rest at the main data center downtown. The key to making this work is a very fast, responsive network connection using Ciena's Adaptive WAN products running over a private 2 Gb/s fiber physical layer. The network uses EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility and MirrorView to support synchronous backup of all data to the disaster recovery site, resulting in less than five minutes to fail-over, validate and move on.
Fortune 500 Bank Utilizes Ciena to Connect Critical Data Infrastructures (pdf)
When a reliable, high-bandwidth network between data centers was required, one of the largest banks in the U.S. chose a Ciena private bandwidth solution. The result: exceptional performance, assured service, responsive support for new applications, and complete control—at a cost one third less per month than a SONET-based network services solution.
When a reliable, high-bandwidth network between data centers was required, one of the largest banks in the U.S. chose a Ciena private bandwidth solution. The result: exceptional performance, assured service, responsive support for new applications, and complete control—at a cost one third less per month than a SONET-based network services solution.
Independent Electricity Market Operator (IMO) (pdf)
The Independent Electricity Market Operator’s (IMO) storage extension infrastructure, primarily composed of channel extenders, was unable to support the additional applications and throughput required to meet their Business Continuity goals. Comparing the cost of purchasing additional WAN bandwidth to the effort of overhauling their storage extension design with a new generation storage extension platform, IMO recognized that Ciena’s CN 2000™ Storage Extension Platform allowed them to streamline their storage performance, reduce their yearly maintenance costs, monitor their application performance, and postpone the purchase of additional WAN bandwidth.
The Independent Electricity Market Operator’s (IMO) storage extension infrastructure, primarily composed of channel extenders, was unable to support the additional applications and throughput required to meet their Business Continuity goals. Comparing the cost of purchasing additional WAN bandwidth to the effort of overhauling their storage extension design with a new generation storage extension platform, IMO recognized that Ciena’s CN 2000™ Storage Extension Platform allowed them to streamline their storage performance, reduce their yearly maintenance costs, monitor their application performance, and postpone the purchase of additional WAN bandwidth.
Global 500 Financial Services - SONET/SDH Optimizes DWDM Deployment (pdf)
A Global 500 financial services firm's extensive optical networking infrastructure, consisting of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems that carried ESCON®, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), and Fibre Channel (FC) traffic was straining to support Mainframe and Open Systems Storage, LAN-based Intranet, and Video, which threatened the firm’s ability to support mission critical Business Continuance (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) applications, such as disk mirroring and tape backup. To quickly improve network capacity, while laying a solid foundation to meet future growth plans, the firm turned to Ciena and its CN 2000 Storage Extension Solution to leverage its existing fiber infrastructure and optical network investments to gain affordable, reliable, and secure storage and BC/DR support.
A Global 500 financial services firm's extensive optical networking infrastructure, consisting of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems that carried ESCON®, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), and Fibre Channel (FC) traffic was straining to support Mainframe and Open Systems Storage, LAN-based Intranet, and Video, which threatened the firm’s ability to support mission critical Business Continuance (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) applications, such as disk mirroring and tape backup. To quickly improve network capacity, while laying a solid foundation to meet future growth plans, the firm turned to Ciena and its CN 2000 Storage Extension Solution to leverage its existing fiber infrastructure and optical network investments to gain affordable, reliable, and secure storage and BC/DR support.
COLT Telecom Group, plc (pdf)
As part of its continuous effort to reduce CAPEX and OPEX, leading European provider of business communications services, COLT Telecom Group, plc, needed to consolidate and relocate its data storage facilities from Frankfurt to London. COLT selected Ciena and EMC to secure this seamless long distance data migration and optimal storage networking solution with considerable cost savings.
As part of its continuous effort to reduce CAPEX and OPEX, leading European provider of business communications services, COLT Telecom Group, plc, needed to consolidate and relocate its data storage facilities from Frankfurt to London. COLT selected Ciena and EMC to secure this seamless long distance data migration and optimal storage networking solution with considerable cost savings.
Global 500 Financial Services - Disk Mirroring over SONET (pdf)
A large financial services firm needed to expand its storage connectivity to remote data centers outside of its local network infrastructure. Moreover, the firm needed to utilize available SONET bandwidth for the extension of disk mirroring to meet its growing data storage and business continuance requirements. By deploying Ciena's Storage-over-SONET solution, the company was able to leverage SONET leased line services to gain reliable and affordable storage extension for long-term growth.
A large financial services firm needed to expand its storage connectivity to remote data centers outside of its local network infrastructure. Moreover, the firm needed to utilize available SONET bandwidth for the extension of disk mirroring to meet its growing data storage and business continuance requirements. By deploying Ciena's Storage-over-SONET solution, the company was able to leverage SONET leased line services to gain reliable and affordable storage extension for long-term growth.
Progress Telecom (pdf)
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) required an efficient, highly-reliable and secure data network to deliver and manage high-quality services to its customers. Powered by Ciena’s CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator and ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform, Progress Telecom’s Optical Wavelength Service provides BCBSNC full-rate Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over a single fiber. As a result, the health care provider can quickly and easily add new services and additional channels and locations to its network without disruption.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) required an efficient, highly-reliable and secure data network to deliver and manage high-quality services to its customers. Powered by Ciena’s CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator and ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform, Progress Telecom’s Optical Wavelength Service provides BCBSNC full-rate Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over a single fiber. As a result, the health care provider can quickly and easily add new services and additional channels and locations to its network without disruption.
Fortune 2000 Enterprise (pdf)
A mid-sized enterprise needed a cost-effective solution to increase the efficiency of its current network while supporting its business continuance applications over distance. Specifically, the company needed to lower its monthly connectivity costs and consolidate its SAN and LAN traffic onto a single OC-3 leased line while physically isolating the traffic to maintain application performance. By deploying Ciena's solution, the Fortune 2000 enterprise was able to achieve that while reducing capital and operational costs, increasing network efficiency, and improving the visibility and control of its business continuance applications.
A mid-sized enterprise needed a cost-effective solution to increase the efficiency of its current network while supporting its business continuance applications over distance. Specifically, the company needed to lower its monthly connectivity costs and consolidate its SAN and LAN traffic onto a single OC-3 leased line while physically isolating the traffic to maintain application performance. By deploying Ciena's solution, the Fortune 2000 enterprise was able to achieve that while reducing capital and operational costs, increasing network efficiency, and improving the visibility and control of its business continuance applications.
OnFiber Communications (pdf)
A large international business and IT consulting firm recently turned to OnFiber™ Communications and Ciena to protect its business operations in the event of a disaster. Utilizing Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform to carry multiple Fibre Channel signals between several data center locations, OnFiber successfully implemented a disaster recovery solution with remote backup and restoration capabilities to secure the firm’s network.
A large international business and IT consulting firm recently turned to OnFiber™ Communications and Ciena to protect its business operations in the event of a disaster. Utilizing Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform to carry multiple Fibre Channel signals between several data center locations, OnFiber successfully implemented a disaster recovery solution with remote backup and restoration capabilities to secure the firm’s network.
