ADVA and Inrange Partner to Deploy Storage Networking Solution At the University of Pennsylvania.Business & Technology Editors MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany & RAMSEY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2002 ADVA ADVA American Deaf Volleyball Association ADVA Advanced Soviet Optical Networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. (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, today announced that the Information Systems and Computing (ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. ) division of the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. has implemented an advanced storage networking solution using ADVA's Fiber Service Platform (FSP FSP - File Service Protocol ), offered through its distribution partner Inrange Technologies Corporation. The FSP, sold under the INRANGE IN-VSN(TM) Spectrum label, connects an 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) TotalStorage(TM) Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) across a fiber optic network, allowing the University to provision dedicated channels for data warehousing, financial systems, and Internet Protocol (IP) traffic. This extends the reach of the University's network for remote disk mirroring to an IBM ESS located at SunGard, the University's business continuity hot-site provider. Service operators and customers like the University of Pennsylvania increasingly require cost-effective solutions to meet their escalating demands for improved backup of mission-critical databases. "The challenges of an organization like ISC at the University of Pennsylvania include the implementation of a cost-effective storage infrastructure with flexible access and vastly improved data backup, which will be able to service the demands of a growing user base", stated Thomas J. Unger, Disaster Recovery Coordinator of the ISC at the University of Pennsylvania. "ADVA Optical Networking's customer announcement of the University of Pennsylvania illustrates their continued commitment to offer metro optical networking services to both carriers and large enterprise users," stated Doug McEuen, Senior Market Analyst, Optical Networking at Pioneer Consulting. "The FSP platform offers customers optical metro access for high bandwidth applications which require speed and quality of service solutions." The University of Pennsylvania installed the IN-VSN Spectrum/FSP platform together with SunGard to interconnect IBM's ESS and support data mirroring. This platform provides the user with an economical upgrade path from ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. (R) to FICON (FIber CONnector) An IBM mainframe channel introduced with its G5 servers in 1998. Based on the Fibre Channel standard, it boosts the transfer rate of ESCON's half-duplex 17MB/sec to a full-duplex 100MB/sec. (TM) protocols enabling seamless integration into a 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 environment and investment protection. Since 1995, ADVA and INRANGE have worked together to pioneer optical storage networking solutions. Together, they have sold over 5,000 WDM (1) (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) A technology that uses multiple lasers and transmits several wavelengths of light (lambdas) simultaneously over a single optical fiber. channels to over 100 different end-customers, including Fortune 1000 Enterprises, Storage Service Providers, and Metro Carriers. These solutions provide cost-effective, high-speed data, storage and video services for applications such as disaster recovery; high-speed remote data mirroring; wide area data replication; remote data backup; digital content distribution and storage outsourcing. ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League institution with a distinctive past. Its four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate and professional schools are located on an attractive campus in Philadelphia, a diverse community with more than 21,000 students from throughout the nation and around the world, working with an extraordinary faculty; people of many talents and interests creating an exceptional environment for teaching and learning. www.upenn.edu. About INRANGE Inrange Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:INRG INRG Independent Navy Review Group ), a subsidiary of SPX Corporation, is the world leader in high-end scalable storage networking solutions and provides users with the building blocks to manage and expand large, complex storage networks simply without geographic limitations. INRANGE's core-to-edge-to-anywhere solutions solve the growing storage challenges facing today's IT organizations, while providing investment protection and a proven foundation for future growth. INRANGE has a 33-year history of providing mission-critical networking technologies, servicing over 2,200 customers in 90 countries. For more information: www.inrange.com. About ADVA Optical Networking ADVA Optical Networking is a leading global provider of optical networking solutions for rapid and cost-effective provisioning of high-speed voice, data, storage, and video services in the metropolitan area. ADVA's solutions have been deployed at over 47 service providers (including PTTs, RBOCs, LECs, and IXCs) and more than 500 enterprises worldwide. ADVA's carrier-class portfolio is comprised of the Fiber Service Platform (FSP) family of products - explicitly designed to ensure the lowest total cost of ownership. ADVA's products are sold through an international network of blue-chip distribution partners in addition to its own direct sales force. For more information: www.advaoptical.com. |
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