Inrange has an alliance with Sorrento to distribute it's DWDM product for use with the enterprise SAN. Sorrento DWDM has EPC which splits each channel easily into subchannels. It seems like this will work well with FC Directors and Switches, to send Data from one SAN Island to another.
Picture of a Gigamux and Chart with what it works with.
sorrentonet.com
Click on Product Information, Product Portfolio, Gigamux, then click on picture to the right of it, for the chart.
Sorrento Website has a nice little introduction
sorrentonetworks.com
Inrange Website with a picture of the very nice looking FC 64 Port Director
inrange.com Click on the picture for a short video.
Brocade is working with ONI. oni.com
Brocade currently does not have a Director. Click on Solutions, then on ONI9000 to see a sexy looking rack mount DWDM system.
"ONI Systems Corp. (formerly known as Optical Networks, Inc.), a provider of telecommunications systems, has teamed with Amber Networks, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (BROCADE®), Corvis Corp., Juniper Networks, Inc., StorageNetworks, Inc., and Tellium, Inc. to demonstrate an integrated service delivery platform, addressing the carriers' need to manage a multi-vendor network"
To see a chart of where Brocade fits into their platform, click on oni.com then click on Solutions, then Operations Interoptical, under the Optical Perspectives, on the right hand side of the page. Scroll to the bottom.
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