…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)…

…establish a new price/performance industry benchmark for SAN extension solutions used to support enterprise business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) applications. The alliance provides enterprises with additional options to extend SANs using a wide range of MANs and WANs, and gives organizations…

…Gbps): Supports 8     CWDM wavelengths variants with GE     SFP WAN interfaces (from 1471 nm to     1611 nm on ITU grid) Client interfaces Supports up to 4 hot-swappable SFP     transceiver modules Protocol support: Software…

…which in turn support specific types of data traffic. ATM Adaptation Layer 1 Circuit Emulation (AAL1) AAL that supports constant bit rate traffic that cannot tolerate delays, such as uncompressed voice and video transmission. ATM Adaptation Layer 2 Transport (AAL2) AAL that supports variable bit rate…

…assurance and technical support as customers migrate from 1G to 2G Fibre Channel over a Ciena-Brocade storage network. Testing was conducted at the Brocade interoperability labs, which are state-of-the-art facilities supporting end-to-end interoperability and performance testing of SAN products in multi-vendor…

…its San Jose, Calif. facility on September 30, 2004. The San Jose closing, and related actions, are expected to affect approximately 425 employees, or approximately 25 percent, of Ciena’s current workforce by the end of the fiscal year. All ongoing product development and customer support activities…

…subsidiary of China Unicom, has selected Ciena’s CN 2600™ Multiservice Edge Aggregator (formerly known as ONLINE Edge) to support storage area network (SAN) extension for its data center disaster recovery and restoration plans.   “Zhejiang China Unicom’s next-generation…

…, adaptive network solutions support any mix of applications between sites by providing all traffic with high-performance, zero packet loss and low fixed latency—regardless of whether the data is sourced from a remote LAN-based server, a Storage Area Network (SAN)-based storage array or a legacy…

…total residential and commercial customers, has deployed Ciena’s CoreDirector® Multiservice Optical Switches in the super headend of its San Diego network to interconnect two metro rings, each transporting multiple 10 Gbps circuits over DWDM. To interconnect the rings, Cox faced the cost and…

…Switched Ring BPT Band Pass-Through BPV BiPolar Violations BRI Basic Rate Interface BRM Backward RM BSC Board SC Connector BSP Board Support Package BSS Business Support System BT British Telecom; Burst Tolerance Btag Beginning Tag BTM Bits Termination Circuit Pack BTS Business Telecom Services BTU/hr…