LightSand and Opvista Announce Intelligent FC and FICON WAN Extension over Any Distance for the Cable Industry.PLANO, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. -- LightSand(R) Communications, Inc., a company pioneering SAN Connectivity solutions, and OpVista, Inc., the company delivering Next Generation intelligent optical networks for the deployment of "anything-on-demand" services, announced today that they have signed an agreement to provide joint solutions. Under the agreement, Opvista will be able to provide LightSand unique SAN Extension solutions, as part of its optical transport solution, in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, the Middle East and Asia. LightSand is a global leader in the development and delivery of SAN connectivity products that can be used to interconnect multiple SANs regardless of physical proximity or vendor disparity, and enable companies to implement mission critical applications. LightSand delivers outstanding WAN performance which allows companies to deploy state-of-the art connectivity solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery applications, while fully optimizing the connection cost on their WAN. The OpVista Intelligent Transport(TM) solution includes its patented Ultra-DWDM technology allowing single wavelength upgrades and scalable reconfigurability with the S-ROADM. OpVista's S-ROADM is based on a broadcast and select architecture providing "point and click" reconfigurability, and a switched ring architecture accommodating "any-to-any" traffic patterns with full protection switching. The OpVista solution provides this capability at a significantly reduced cost compared with conventional systems and can economically scale from a single wavelength to dropping all the wavelengths without disrupting existing traffic. SAN connectivity enhances OpVista's Intelligent Transport solution with its patented Ultra-DWDM technology, switched ring architecture, and Scalable ROADM ROADM Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer ROADM Reconfigurable Add Drop Multiplexing . "The agreement between LightSand and OpVista is a significant development for the market at large. The ability to extend any local or regional application over distance is rapidly becoming the rule in most industries, rather than the exception it may have been just a few months ago, and LightSand is at the core of this trend, said Richard Czech, 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 LightSand. Our partnership with OpVista is a clear illustration of how we can jointly deliver incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. value-added to our customers: OpVista develops optical transport technology to deploy "anything-on-demand" services for the cable industry, and LightSand enables its extension over FC or 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. and Ethernet Layer 2, regardless of distance." "OpVista is committed to delivering solutions to our customers. The addition of LightSand with our OpVista2000 portfolio provides operators with a full service offering to deliver end to end disaster recovery, asset management, and data replication and migration," said OpVista CEO Karl May This article is about German writer. For the Russian educator Karl May, see Karl May School. Karl Friedrich May (Ernstthal, Electorate of Saxony, February 25, 1842 - Radebeul, Kingdom of Saxony, March 30, 1912) was one of the the best selling German . As the result of this agreement taking effect immediately, interested customers can contact LightSand or OpVista to enquire en·quire v. Variant of inquire. enquire Verb [-quiring, -quired] same as inquire enquiry n Verb 1. about their joint solutions. About LightSand LightSand offers a variety of products for increasing SAN connectivity, both within the data center and over MAN/WAN networks. LightSand SAN extension gateways connect FICON or Fibre Channel with Ethernet Layer 2 over distance using IP, SONET/SDH, 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 and dedicated fiber. The company's revolutionary AR/DAT technology allows these gateways to function as FC routers, enabling the segmentation of SANs into autonomous regions, and providing reliable interconnections between heterogeneous multi-vendor SAN fabrics. LightSand compression capabilities allow companies to implement state-of-the art distant connectivity solutions while optimizing the cost and performance of their WAN connection. LightSand is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Plano, TX. For more information visit www.lightsand.com About OpVista, Inc. OpVista, the leading provider of Intelligent Optical Transport(TM), enables broadband operators to cost-effectively deliver triple play and business services over existing infrastructure in a cost-effective manner. Privately held and founded in 2000, OpVista offers industry leading reconfigurability, distance, and scale in its OpVista2000 DWDM platform. OpVista's investors include Sevin Rosen, Incubic, US Trust's Excelsior Venture Partners, and WTI WTI West Texas Intermediate WTI Western Transportation Institute (Montana State University) WTI World Tribunal on Iraq WTI With The Idea (used in chess to point to the idea behind a specific move) . For more information, visit http://www.opvista.com. |
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