Akara Joins McDATA OpenReady Partners Program; Customers Gain Tested Storage Solution for Extending Business Continuance Applications Across The MAN/WAN.Business/Technology Editors OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002 Akara, a leading developer of storage extension solutions for business continuance applications across the MAN/WAN, and McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDT/MCDTA), the worldwide leader in open storage networking solutions, today announced that Akara has joined the McDATA OpenReady Interoperability Partners Program. Akara's OUSP OUSP Optical Utility Services Platform (TM) 2000 product family has been certified for interoperability with McDATA solutions, eliminating much of the challenge Global 2000 IT professionals face in deploying an extended SAN with multiple vendors' products. The two companies participated in extensive testing to ensure a level of interoperability that provides enterprises with a cost-effective, high performance solution for extending their SANs across the WAN for business continuance. "Our participation in McDATA's OpenReady program means that customers can easily extend their SANs over greater distances while meeting the requirements of their most advanced business continuance applications," 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. "As a result of our commitment to achieve interoperability with leading storage networking solution providers, customers can immediately benefit from solutions that extend applications such as disk-mirroring, tape/disk back-up and server geo-clustering with the highest levels of performance and interoperability." Akara is the only 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. company with a singular focus on extending business continuance applications between data centers and across the MAN/WAN. Akara's Optical Utility Services Platform (OUSP) multiplexes data center protocols such as Fibre Channel (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 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. (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. The OUSP product family is "enterprise-ready" with OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48 connectivity, enabling the majority of Global 2000 enterprises to easily connect their storage networks to carriers' ubiquitous SONET services for high-performance, cost-effective extended storage networking. Akara's OUSP enables enterprises and carriers to create multiple FC links over a single metro-DWDM wavelength or carrier-leased SONET circuit. The OUSP also enables carriers to deliver differentiated, high ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). services such as FC private lines and GbE private lines by leveraging their existing network assets for the enterprise. "We are pleased to have Akara join McDATA's OpenReady Interoperability program," said Peter Dougherty Reverend Father Peter Dougherty is a Catholic priest, peace activist, and specialist in non-violence. He co-founded Covenant for Peace, Great lakes Life Community, Michigan Faith and Resistance, and Michigan Peace Team. , vice president of business development and strategic alliances. "When key players such as Akara participate, enterprises with critical business continuance requirements gain access to best-of-breed technologies with the assurance of interoperability. The result of our collaboration is scalable, reliable SAN extension solutions with the low cost of ownership needed to make them accessible to the majority of Global 2000 enterprises." About Akara Akara Corporation develops data center multiplexing equipment that delivers industry-leading network solutions for MAN/WAN connectivity focusing on business continuance applications through enterprise private network builds and carrier/service provider special network builds. The Akara OUSP(TM) product family is composed of a configurable, customer premise platform and a feature-rich services and network management system. Akara's OUSP significantly reduces operational and capital expenses by leveraging the existing SONET/SDH, dark fiber or DWDM infrastructures, and guarantees the performance of data center protocols such as Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON and Gigabit Ethernet for distance-extended, business continuance storage 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. . www.akara.com. |
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