Coriolis Networks Announces Strategic Partnership with Crossroads Systems to Provide Carriers with Storage Area Network Service Solutions.Business/Technology Editors BOXBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 Coriolis Networks, Inc., an innovative provider of metro 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. solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Crossroads Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CRDS CRDS Contribution pour Le Remboursement de la Dette Sociale (French: Social Debt Repayment Contribution) CRDS Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy CRDS Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies ), a leading provider of connectivity for storage networking solutions. Working together, the two companies will deliver optical networking solutions to carriers that provide storage area network (SAN) backbone interconnection and transport services The collective functions of layers 1 through 4 of the OSI model. . Under this agreement, Coriolis and Crossroads will provide carriers with the ability to implement storage area network transmission services and reduce optical transport costs. SANs are specialized, high-speed networks interconnecting data storage devices. Using Coriolis' bandwidth management capabilities for high-speed transport of SAN traffic, a carrier will be able to connect SAN switches and storage routers in different locations for key services such as data mirroring, backup and restoration, data migration and sharing, disaster recovery, and server consolidation. "This partnership with Crossroads Systems allows us to give our carrier customers more options," said Robert Castle, president and 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 Coriolis Networks. "By allowing end users to outsource SAN interconnect and optical transport functions, we are giving them the ability to store and transmit data without incurring the cost and training required to implement and support an optical network themselves." Crossroads' family of storage routers provides multi-protocol connectivity to Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet SANs for a wide range of devices, including servers, S/390 mainframes, and disk and tape storage systems. Crossroads' solutions deliver exceptional value to both small and mid-sized companies, as well as Global 2000 enterprises. The partnership will allow carriers to deploy a pre-integrated edge-to-edge SAN transport solution that is interoperable with commercially available SAN systems. "The growth of storage requirements across the enterprise has driven companies to look for ways to provide ubiquitous data access and still keep costs in line," said Brian R. Smith, CEO of Crossroads Systems. "The growth of optical networking and carrier-based SAN transport services allows us to give our customers the ability to inexpensively connect their SANs across Coriolis' metro access networks." The Coriolis OptiFlow Network(TM) offers facilities-based carriers the most comprehensive bandwidth optimization capabilities available today. Based on Coriolis' Optical Spatial Division Multiplexing (OSDM OSDM Optical Spatial Division Multiplexing (Coriolis Networks) OSDM Old-School Death Metal (music genre) OSDM OneSpace Designer Modelling (CAD product) (TM)) architecture, the OptiFlow platform provides carriers with a flexible and cost-effective way to recover as much as 75 percent of the bandwidth stranded in traditional SONET networks. The OptiFlow Network allows carriers to significantly increase their revenue from data services while continuing to efficiently transport traditional Time Division Multiplexing (communications) time division multiplexing - (TDM) A type of multiplexing where two or more channels of information are transmitted over the same link by allocating a different time interval ("slot" or "slice") for the transmission of each channel. I.e. (TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ) services over fiber. OptiFlow is different from other transport solutions in that it uses a centralized bandwidth manager to fully utilize, reuse, groom and aggregate the bandwidth in the entire metro optical network. About Coriolis Coriolis Networks, founded in 1999, is delivering a family of next-generation metro optical networking products that redefines the economics for delivery and management of traditional TDM and rapidly growing data services. Based on the Optical Spatial Division Multiplexing (OSDM(TM)) architecture, the OptiFlow Network(TM) solution allows carriers to retain the reliability of SONET in a highly scalable data-centric operating environment. Coriolis does for optical networks what packet switching did for private line networks. For more information, visit www.coriolisnet.com or call 978-264-1904. About Crossroads Systems, Inc. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq: CRDS) is the leading provider of connectivity for Storage Area Networks. Crossroads' family of storage routers provides multi-protocol connectivity to Fibre Channel storage networks for a wide range of devices, including servers, S/390 mainframes, and disk and tape storage systems. Crossroads' solutions enable key Internet, intranet and e-commerce applications to both small and mid-sized companies, as well as Global 500 enterprises. Crossroads' products are in solutions from ADIC, ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up , Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , 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) , McDATA, StorageTek, Unisys, Bell Micro, Cranel, Datalink and Tech Data. Crossroads is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) and the InfiniBandSM Trade Association. For employment opportunities and more information about Crossroads Systems, please visit www.crossroads.com or call (800) 643-7148. OSDM and OptiFlow Network are trademarks of Coriolis Networks Incorporated. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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