McDATA Announces Interoperability Between Its Acclaimed ED-5000 Director And Nortel Networks Market-leading Metro Optical Networking Product, OPTera Metro 5200
Solution Allows Customers to Connect and Manage Storage Networks Over MAN Distances
BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- McDATA Corporation, a global leader in open storage networking solutions, today announced that it has completed testing to create an interoperable solution utilizing the ED-5000 Director and the Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5200 as its core components. The solution enables customers to seamlessly interconnect storage area networks (SANs) over metropolitan area network (MAN) infrastructures while meeting customer demand for data exchange and remote management of SANs across extended distances up to 300 kilometers between end points.
Nortel Networks and McDATA have successfully tested a solution that will enable the deployment of high-performance, high-availability SANs spanning multiple, remote physical locations as well as making new types of SAN applications possible that previously couldn't be implemented over long distances. These applications include disaster recovery, remote data replication, remote data backup and digital content distribution. Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5200 solution for optical networking and dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM), which allows reliable network connections across SAN locations, has been tested across a variety of storage-based vendors for interoperability and manageability.
"McDATA and Nortel Networks have qualified a carrier class MAN solution for service providers and enterprise customers who require high-availability attributes to run their businesses," said Jeff Vogel, McDATA's vice president of solutions and systems integration services. "This relationship demonstrates our commitment to offer customers highly available, reliable solutions that remove risks and unplanned costs associated with implementing SAN technology across distances while managing exponential growth and increasing information accessibility needs."
Using McDATA's 99.999 percent reliable, highly available ED-5000 Director at the core of the metropolitan backbone, McDATA has been conducting testing of distance-based solutions since February of 2000 in its Systems Integration Lab to ensure reliable, robust customer applications before taking the technology to a customer environment. All testing was completed using McDATA's software and Director-class ED-5000 to link multiple points within a SAN fabric or at a specific location.
``The interoperability testing effort between Nortel Networks and McDATA allows both companies to implement MAN technology to meet the rapidly increasing storage networking demands of the market while delivering advanced solutions to our customers,'' said Brian McFadden, president, Photonic Networks, Nortel Networks. ``Through testing within the Systems Integration Lab and utilizing McDATA's extensive expertise, Nortel Networks optical networking technology is maximized and quickly implemented within a customer application with very high reliability.''
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