ADVA Optical Networking and Brocade Advance Options for Internetworking Storage Area Networks Over Optical Networks.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif. & RAMSEY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 Companies Verify Interoperability of ADVA ADVA American Deaf Volleyball Association ADVA Advanced Soviet FSP-II DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing Products and Brocade SilkWorm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. Switches for Internetworking SANs Over High Speed Optical Networks ADVA Optical Networking (German Neuer Markt: ADV ADV Advertisement ADV Adverb ADV Advance/Advanced ADV Advantage (tennis) ADV Advise ADV Advocate ADV Advancement ADV Advent ADV Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung ADV Adversus (Latin: Against) ), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, and Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). , Inc. (Brocade(R)) (Nasdaq: BRCD), the leading provider of Storage Area Networking infrastructure, announced today that the two companies have verified interoperability of Brocade SilkWorm(R) Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. switches with ADVA FSP-II Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM) products. Through ADVA FSP-II DWDM products, SAN customers can interconnect Brocade-based SANs to high speed, fiber optic metropolitan area networks. Brocade SilkWorm switches connect servers with storage devices through a Storage Area Network (SAN), providing a highly available and scalable environment for storage applications. The BROCADE storage networking infrastructure is the ideal foundation for internetworked SANs, supporting applications such as disaster recovery; high-speed remote data mirroring; wide area data replication; remote data backup; digital content distribution; and storage outsourcing. Interconnecting Brocade-based SANs using ADVA's FSP-II DWDM high-speed transparent solution enables these new types of storage applications at distances up to 80 Kilometers over a high performance optical fiber link, allowing SAN customers to access data on a storage subsystem that may be located across town at performance levels that are nearly equal to direct-attached storage. "Advances in high performance optical networking are enabling a whole new industry of SAN applications and service offerings, such as outsourced storage, as an alternative to managing a data center in house. Brocade is committed to offering our SAN customers the widest array of options to take advantage of metropolitan area fiber for the high-speed interconnection of servers and storage," said Jack Cuthbert, Brocade vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "We are pleased to work with ADVA to ensure that our mutual customers can seamlessly internetwork Brocade-based SANs through ADVA's high performance DWDM solutions." ADVA FSP-II is designed to meet the requirements of enterprise markets. It is an affordable 32-channel DWDM solution capable of accepting a broad range of data rates. With the ADVA FSP-II solution, up to 32 channels can be extended over a single optical fiber pair, each appearing to have their own virtual fiber link totally independent of the others. Network integrity is assured through the FSP-II's high reliability and link protection features. FSP-II's fail-safe dual link switching combined with the highly reliable and scalable Brocade SilkWorm switches, provides a fault-resilient environment for storage applications in which critical data access is protected from a link or channel interface failure. "The internetworking of islands of SANs across high speed metropolitan area networks expands the options for SAN customers, enabling new types of applications such as remote backup and disaster recovery, in a highly secure and high performance environment," said Brian McCann, ADVA Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. "By verifying interoperability between our ADVA FSP-II solutions and Brocade's market-leading SilkWorm switches, we can help our mutual customers more quickly achieve enterprise wide data availability." About ADVA Optical Networking ADVA Optical Networking is a leading global provider of optical networking solutions to deploy, manage and deliver communication networks and high-speed services for the metropolitan area and enterprise markets. ADVA's product family is used by telecommunication and metro area service providers, as well as enterprises, to provide high-performance connectivity and delivery of high-speed data, storage, voice and video services. ADVA sells its products through a global network of distributors, value added resellers, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) including Alcatel (Optinex 1690(TM)), Cisco (Metro 1500(TM)), and Siemens (Waveline EL2(TM)). As of August 2000, more than 420 enterprises and 25 service providers have deployed ADVA's equipment. ADVA is headquartered in Munich (Germany), with R&D centers in Cambridge and York (UK), Berlin and Meiningen (Germany). Worldwide sales offices are located in Berlin, Hannover and Munich (Germany); Cambridge and York (UK); Paris (France), Chicago/Illinois and Ramsey/New Jersey (USA); and Tokyo (Japan). Visit www.advaoptical.com for more information about ADVA Optical Networking. About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) is the leading provider of Storage Area Networking infrastructure. The Brocade SilkWorm(R) family of Fibre Channel switches Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
Brocade is committed to maintaining open, standards-based solutions. Leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions, including Amdahl, CNT (Carbon NanoTube) See nanotube. , Compaq Computer, Data General, Dell Computer, EMC Corporation, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a Japanese and German IT vendor, selling consumer and business computing products in the markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (products marketed elsewhere are sold under the Fujitsu brand). , Groupe Bull, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intergraph Computer Systems, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Network Appliance, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , StorageTek and Unisys. In addition, Brocade counts industry leaders Computer Associates, Emulex, Highground Systems, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. Inc., JNI (Java Native Interface) A programming interface (API) in Sun's Java Virtual Machine used for calling native platform elements such as GUI routines. RNI (Raw Native Interface) is the JNI counterpart in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine. JNI - Java Native Interface Corporation, Legato, LSI Logic, ONI Systems, StorageNetworks, Tivoli Systems and VERITAS among its strategic partners. For more information, visit the Brocade website at www.Brocade.com or contact the company at info@Brocade.com. ADVA and the ADVA logo are trademarks of ADVA Optical Networking. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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