AKARA EXTENDS BROCADE FABRIC AWARE QUALIFICATION.Akara, a developer of Storage over SONET extension solutions with the lowest MByte per mile cost across the MAN/WAN has unveiled that its OUSP OUSP Optical Utility Services Platform data center multiplexer See multiplexor and multiplexing. multiplexer - multiplexor has been verified as Brocade Fabric Aware with Brocade's 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. 3800 Enterprise Fabric switch and SilkWorm 12000 Core Fabric switch through the Brocade Fabric Aware Program. Testing was conducted at the Brocade interoperability lab, which supports end-to-end interoperability and performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. of SAN products in multi-vendor and large fabric SAN environments. Enterprises can immediately benefit from deploying these solutions to extend their SANs over greater distances while protecting their current network investments. "Today's announcement reflects our commitment to enable our customers, distributors, system integrators and resellers to extend 1 to 2 Gbit/sec SANs with a cost-effective solution to meet their business continuance goals," said Ed Ogonek, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Akara. "Enterprises look to deploy storage solutions from leading vendors who can provide lowest cost storage extension while meeting the stringent performance requirements of business continuance applications such as latency, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and security. With Brocade's SilkWorm fabric switches and Akara's Storage over SONET extension solution, enterprises protect their network investments while meeting their goals for business continuance." Akara is a provider of a Storage over SONET platform that enables enterprises to leverage existing carrier networks for reliable, lowest cost/MByte storage extension. Akara's OUSP multiplexes data center protocols FC, 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. , 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. and GbE directly into flexible SONET payloads to extend enterprises' business continuance applications over existing SONET/SDH, dark fiber or 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 networks. This customer-premise device is "enterprise-ready" with OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48 connectivity, enabling the majority of enterprises to easily connect their storage networks to carriers' ubiquitous SONET services for high-performance, cost-effective extended storage networking. With Akara's OUSP, enterprises can create multiple FC links over a single metro-DWDM wavelength or carrier-leased SONET circuit. "We are pleased that Akara has successfully completed the Brocade Fabric Aware testing with our 2 Gbit/sec fabric switches," said Jay Kidd, Brocade vice president of product marketing. "Brocade's SilkWorm fabric switches allow companies to network servers and storage in a SAN to create a highly available, scalable and secure environment for storage applications. Through the Fabric Aware program we are able to deliver jointly with Akara end-to-end interoperability to our SAN customers." About the Brocade Fabric Aware Program The Brocade Fabric Aware program is a comprehensive testing and configuration initiative designed to foster end-to-end SAN interoperability in multi-vendor storage networking environments. As part of the program, companies agree to test in SAN configurations that comprise a heterogeneous mix of servers, storage subsystems, Brocade fabric switches, and other SAN technologies. Brocade has created an interoperability lab comprising a heterogeneous SAN fabric, in which the company tests and validates partner equipment in specific configurations. Vendors receive Brocade Fabric Aware qualification after completing tests to confirm that vendors' products meet interoperability guidelines. The Brocade Fabric Aware Program overview can be found on the Brocade web site, at http://www.brocade.com. About Akara Akara, is the only equipment supplier with a singular focus on extending business continuance applications between data centers with the lowest MByte per mile cost across existing MAN/WAN networks. Akara's solutions significantly reduces operational and capital expense by leveraging the existing SONET/SDH, dark fiber or DWDM networks, and ensures the performance of Fibre Channel, ESCON, FICON and Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. in geographically dispersed business continuance applications. Akara has offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. . Akara can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.akara.com. For more information, call 613/270-9500, ext. 5022. |
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