CIENA Further Reduces Cost of Remote Storage Connectivity between Geographically Dispersed Data Centers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Spring 2004 PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004 CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Over SONET/SDH Platform Adds Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment Capabilities and Employs Latest ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. Generic Framing Procedure Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) is defined by ITU-T G.7041. This allows mapping of variable length, higher-layer client signals over a transport network like SDH/SONET. The client signals can be protocol data unit (PDU) oriented (like IP/PPP or Ethernet Media Access Control) or can Standard At Storage Networking World Spring 2004, CIENA(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:CIEN CIEN Ciena Corporation (stock symbol) ), a leading global provider of innovative network solutions, today announced the general availability of its newest generation CN 2000(TM) Storage Extension Platform. The CN 2000 platform now makes even more efficient use of bandwidth, lowering recurring bandwidth charges for the enterprise and making advanced data center applications more affordable with new Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment capabilities. Additionally, by employing the recently ratified International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. (ITU) GFP GFP Green Fluorescent Protein GFP Generic Framing Procedure GFP Government Furnished Property GFP Generic Frame Protocol GFP General Framing Procedure GFP Global Functional Plane GFP Global Field Power GFP Grandmothers for Peace GFP Glutton for Punishment standard that includes Asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. GFP-T GFP-T Transparent Generic Framing Protocol , the CN 2000 better enables service providers to deliver storage connectivity services to business customers. "With growing concerns about ensuring rapid business recovery to comply with new regulatory mandates, IT managers face the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task of remotely replicating more types of critical business information than ever before," said Richard Villars, vice president of storage systems at IDC. "Solutions like CIENA's new generation CN 2000 will allow IT managers to extend advanced data protection capabilities, such as remote mirroring and backup, to a broader range of applications while reducing the costs associated with the wide area networks that support these services." CIENA's Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment allows multiple enterprise applications or data center protocols to dynamically share the same Wide Area Network (WAN) bandwidth by consolidating traffic using priority weighting. With this new feature, the CN 2000 maintains Perfect Quality of Service (QoS) for each application while avoiding the performance penalties associated with IP-based solutions by physically isolating different applications, giving the data its own secure circuit across the network. The CN 2000 also employs Asynchronous GFP-T for data adaptation, improving carrier-based transport services for storage protocols, which enables service providers to efficiently deliver storage extension services to enterprise customers through existing SONET/SDH networks. CIENA led development of Asynchronous GFP-T, a component of the ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union G.7041/Y.1303 standard, and brought to market this version of GFP on its CN 2000 more than a year prior to formal ratification. Generic Framing Procedure enables efficient, standards-based transport of LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and storage protocols on SONET/SDH and optical transport networks. Asynchronous GFP-T adds support for asynchronous adaptation of data protocols for sub-rate transport and extension of flow-controlled protocols on SONET/SDH transport infrastructures, while maintaining the minimum latency and strong error control features of Transparent GFP. With support for Asynchronous GFP-T, the CN 2000 platform improves transport bandwidth efficiency, increases scalability, and makes GFP-enabled services affordable to enterprises by supporting bandwidth matched to their applications' requirements. Additionally, with the release of the newest generation CN 2000, CIENA increased its scalability to further reduce bandwidth requirements and to allow the platform to grow dynamically with an enterprise as needs change over time. Specifically, the latest release includes a new 8-port 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. client module, allowing up to 16 Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), ESCON and 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. services to share a single WAN connection. CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform is designed for enterprises and service providers seeking to cost-effectively extend business continuance and disaster recovery applications such as tape/disk backup, synchronous/asynchronous disk mirroring, and server geo-clustering between multiple data centers. The CN 2000 allows multiple applications to be multiplexed onto separate physical channels within the same SONET/SDH 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 circuit, eliminating the need for an entire circuit to be allocated for a single application, requiring only a fraction of the bandwidth. Additionally, integrated data compression on all protocols significantly reduces MAN/WAN networking costs, enabling enterprises to meet budget and business continuance goals. ABOUT CIENA CIENA Corporation delivers innovative network solutions to the world's largest service providers and enterprises, increasing the cost-efficiency of current services while enabling the creation of new carrier-class data services built upon the existing network infrastructure. Additional information about CIENA can be found at www.ciena.com. NOTE TO INVESTORS This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions of CIENA (the Company) that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to the features and benefits of CIENA's products are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, which include the risk factors disclosed in the Company's Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 19, 2004. Forward looking statements include statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. ESCON and FICON are registered trademarks of 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) Corporation. |
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