INRANGE to Incorporate Sorrento Networks' GigaMux Optical Networking Solution
Into Its IN-VSN Family of Storage Area Networking Solutions
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- INRANGE Technologies, a provider of enterprise infrastructure solutions, announced today that it has reached a strategic alliance with Sorrento Networks, Inc. (San Diego, CA), a provider of optical networking Solutions, to co-market Sorrento's GigaMux(TM) Metro Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (Metro-DWDM) platform.
The move to e.business, coupled with the increasing demand for reliable business continuance procedures, is driving significant growth in the metro DWDM market. This technology, which allows enterprises to cost-effectively use fiber-optic networks to connect locations, is predicted by industry analysts to grow significantly through 2002.
Through this agreement, INRANGE will gain an exclusive position to supply Sorrento Networks' carrier class DWDM solutions for SAN applications within the enterprise marketplace worldwide. In addition, INRANGE has taken a minority investment position in Sorrento Networks as it continues developing technology aimed at meeting the end-to-end needs of the rapidly emerging all optical metro networking market.
Optical networking is becoming increasingly important in creating "virtual storage networks" to support the new economy. The IN-VSN strategy lays the infrastructure for large scale, mission-critical storage networks locally, and then extends these networks to remote locations, business continuance sites, and trading partners around the globe. This alliance with Sorrento Networks allows INRANGE to further strengthen its position in Virtual Storage Area Networking by offering carrier class, ultra-scalable optical networking solutions.
The GigaMux Metro DWDM system is a carrier class platform that significantly increases the capacity of both new and existing fiber optic networks by transporting up to 64 duplex channels of information over a single fiber strand, removing the restriction of using one fiber per channel. Other key features include "add/drop" management to allow enterprises to create a ring of locations on a fiber network, which removes a traditional restriction of point-to-point only. In select applications, Sorrento Networks' patent pending EPC sub-rate multiplexing technology can leverage fiber capacity beyond the 64:1 ratios mentioned.
The agreement with Sorrento Networks extends INRANGE's five-year history in the optical networking arena and complements the company's existing product offering. Optical networking is a strategic component of INRANGE's IN-VSN(TM) family of storage networking solutions, which includes the new 64-port FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director -- the first fibre channel switching platform designed to bring enterprise-class scalability and reliability to Storage Area Networks (SANs). The inherent high scalability and flexibility of the Sorrento DWDM platform allows it to create additional bandwidth rapidly and economically to support demanding real-time SAN applications. |
