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.