Disk Mirroring Over SONET/SDH
White Papers A Global 500 financial services firm had the challenge to utilize readily available SONET/SDH bandwidth for the extension of disk mirroring to meet escalating data storage and BC requirements. CIENA's storage extension solution gave the firm the...
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Storage Distance Extension: Increasing The Reach And Utility Of Networked Storage Applications
White Papers With the introduction of storage over SONET/SDH functionality for its optical portfolio, Nortel Networks is bringing to market a storage distance extension capability that enables the interconnection of SANs separated by distances ranging up to...
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SONET/SDH Ring Extension
White Papers Netstender, the photonic layer platform from BTI Photonic Systems, provides cost-effective, low-power extension of SONET/SDH rings. Netstender's compact, modular architecture delivers amplification and signal conditioning for SONET/SDH rings for up...
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Fibre Channel Over SONET/SDH
White Papers It then outlines their application in delivering Fiber Channel/FICON over SONET/SDH (SAN extension) solutions for common disaster-recovery and business-continuance applications. This white paper is an introduction to Cisco Systems optical and...
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High Performance Fibre Channel Solution With SONET/SDH
White Papers This paper discusses the factors that need to be considered when extending FC SANs over existing MAN/WAN infrastructures, and summarizes the three options in extension technologies: IP/Ethernet networks, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM...
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Data Aggregation Architectures For Single-Chip SDH/SONET Framers
White Papers In this paper, Single-chip SDH/SONET framer architectures are described that permit data aggregation from several line ports. In combination with the new virtual concatenation feature of SDH/SONET, this architecture should also allow transport of...
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Storage Over SONET/SDH: Always-on Storage Connectivity
White Papers This paper discusses the business drivers and challenges for Storage Area Networks and the advantages of implementing a storage extension strategy over SONET/SDH. With each passing day, enterprises create greater amounts of information.
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Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Over SONET/SDH
White Papers The Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) over SONET/SDH design is a system solution for transporting GbE frames over existing SONET/SDH rings or point-to-point connections. It is provided using a combination of SONET/SDH and GbE standard products...
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FLASHWAVE 4010: Extending SONET Benefits To The Edge Of The Network
White Papers The FLASHWAVE 4010 device is the perfect, single-blade solution for extending the well-known benefits of SONET farther into the edge of the network, simplifying the optical delivery of DS1 or DS3 services.
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CIENA's CN 2000 Provides Higher Application Performance And Significant Network And Operational Savings
White Papers The CN 2000 was then connected to the SONET multiplexer via a standard DS3 link. The Independent Electricity Market Operator's (IMO) storage extension infrastructure, primarily composed of channel extenders, was unable to support the additional...
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CIENA's CN 2000 Provides High Performance, Low Cost SRDF Extension For Business Continuance
White Papers FPL implemented CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Extension Solution which extends up to 16 Fibre Channel (FC), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), ESCON, and FICONTM applications across any SONET/SDH, WDM, or Dark Fiber network through DS3, OC-3/12/48, or STM-1/4/16...
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FLASHWAVE 4010: Improving Margins For The Most Popular Services
White Papers The simple, fully enclosed unit greatly improves the economics of extending the SONET network further into the network edge. The FLASHWAVE 4010 remote extension device is a compact OC-3 access module that is optimized for simplicity and low cost to...
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SAN Over SDH/SONET For Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
White Papers This white paper describes the business case for using SDH/SONET as the WAN between SAN islands. The emergence of storage extension solutions is a natural evolution of the growing use of Storage Area Networks (SANs) within the enterprise.
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FICON Extended Distance Solution (FEDS): The Optimal Transport Solution For Backup And Recovery In A Metropolitan Network
White Papers SONET rings can typically handle a capacity of 2.5 gigabits per second of data. Traditional means of backup and recovery for customer data centers are typically implemented using channel extension schemes.
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SONET/SDH Optimizes DWDM Deployment
White Papers To address these burgeoning issues, the firm turned to CIENA and its CN 2000 Storage Extension Solution. A Global 500 financial services firm faced a number of critical data storage and network infrastructure issues.
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