SAN CONNECTIVITY

DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES

An effective and efficient IT infrastructure that can accommodate mission-critical data demands is a key requirement for enterprises. Avoiding network downtimes and data unavailability caused by disasters and quick recovery of all crucial data is mandatory (Disaster Recovery). Business critical applications require a hot stand-by data center (Business Continuity). Connecting those dispersed data centers, a highly reliable, scalable and powerful technology is essential.

KEY APPLICATIONS

• Business Continuity (BC)
  - Open systems server cluster (x86 systems)
  - Mainframe clustering in IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS ®) environments
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
  - Synchronous and asynchronous disk mirroring
• Tape backup
• Distributed file systems

SOLUTION

The ADVA FSP 3000 provides a simple and cost-effective WDM solution that is designed for the requirements of the enterprise market. Besides offering high-capacity optical transport over metro and regional distances up to 40Gbit/s per channel the FSP 3000 supports all storage connectivity protocols and is certified by all major storage vendors.

FEATURES + BENEFITS

• Lowest cost-per-bit transport
  - 80 channels of 10Gbit/s or 40Gbit/s (up to 3.2Tbit/s) with sub-wavelength aggregation (TDM)
  - Highest single span distance up to 200km
• Lowest latency transport
• Dedicated enterprise features
  - All SAN specific protocols
  - All qualifications of market-leading SAN vendors
  - Full set of ‘advanced’ enterprise features (encryption, active link monitoring, fiber fault locator)
  - Integration in market-leading management systems
• High availability supported by a rich set of protection options
• Ease-of-use