Sorrento Networks Platforms Qualified as E-Lab Tested
by EMC Corp.
GigaMux and EPC Fully Compatible With EMC Symmetrix for ESCON
Distance Extension
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2002--Sorrento Networks (Nasdaq:FIBR -
news), a leading supplier of end-to-end, intelligent optical networking solutions for metro and
regional applications, today announced successful interoperability with EMC Corp.'s
Symmetrix® platform for Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF(TM)) ESCON distance
extension.
Based on EMC's extensive testing, the combination of Sorrento Networks' GigaMux® Dense
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform and EPC sub-rate multiplexer family was
qualified with SRDF as an E-Lab Tested SRDF Extended Distance Solution. EMC's E-Lab
Tested qualification process is recognized for its thoroughness in interoperability, failure
recovery and other testing.
Extending the capabilities of ESCON from the data center to a geographically dispersed
metropolitan area, such interoperability ensures that enterprise and carrier customers may
interconnect these products with confidence that the system components will work well
together. With Sorrento's GigaMux and EPC, EMC SRDF ESCON solutions can be effectively
extended across the campus and metropolitan area to meet the growing need for data center
consolidation, business continuance and data migration.
``Confirming interoperability between EMC's and Sorrento's products is very important to
customers implementing high-speed centralized backup and disaster recovery plans,'' said
Demetri Elias, vice president of marketing at Sorrento Networks. ``This announcement formally
confirms what many of our GigaMux and EPC customers have already known for a long time
-- that combining best-of-breed solutions results in a superior system for storage networking.''
Chuck Hollis, EMC's vice president of markets and products, added, ``Increased data traffic,
driven in large part by the Internet and corporate information storage, is bolstering demand for
the bandwidth that optical networking brings. EMC and Sorrento Networks are working
together in this area to help our customers deploy solutions that enable them to take full
advantage of the many operational, financial and business benefits that optical technology
brings.''
Sorrento Networks' GigaMux DWDM transport platform expands the capacity of new and
existing fiber optic networks up to 64 times. At the heart of an all-optical network, GigaMux
transforms any existing fiber plant into a reliable high-performance, multi-protocol transmission network. Built with a modular,
parallel architecture, GigaMux lets service providers easily expand networks and offer new wavelength services quickly and
affordably without disrupting existing service. Scalable from 1 to 64 protected wavelengths (up to 640 Gbps per fiber, 10 Gbps per
channel), GigaMux provides protocol transparency supporting OC-3/STM-1 though OC-192/STM-64, ESCON, Fibre Channel,
FICON, ISC, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, RF and digital video. The platform offers modular protection for redundancy at any
point in the network, single fiber bi-directional transmission capability, optical add/drop modules for linear and ring support, over
600 km reach with optical amplifiers on standard fiber, and over 900 km reach with dispersion compensated fiber. GigaMux is
NEBS Level 3, CE and UL certified.
Sorrento Networks' EPC (Electronic Photonic Concentrator) is a sub-rate access multiplexer family that increases bandwidth
utilization by aggregating a wide variety of traffic for transmission over a single wavelength. By efficiently packing wavelengths
full, these products ensure that no amount of available bandwidth is left idle. The EPC product line makes it physically and
economically possible for network operators to expand their reach and scope by extending optical networking service to
accommodate virtually every data and transport protocol in the end-user community. Providing aggregation of multiple sub-rate
traffic streams onto one wavelength, the EPC family consists of both asynchronous and synchronous TDM multiplexers for
support of SONET/SDH through OC-48/STM-16, FDDI, ESCON, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and FICON. EPC products
offer software provisionable bit rates, data flow control, field-installable interfaces to optimize each input and robust performance
monitoring visibility.
About Sorrento Networks
Sorrento Networks, headquartered in San Diego, is a leading supplier of end-to-end, intelligent optical networking solutions for
metro and regional applications worldwide. Sorrento Networks' products support a wide range of protocols and network traffic
over linear, ring and mesh topologies. The product portfolio includes optical access, transport, switching and management, and
allows service providers to offer a wide variety of services. Sorrento Networks' existing customer base and market focus includes
communications carriers in the telecommunications, cable TV, fixed wireless and utilities markets. The storage area network
(SAN) market is addressed though alliances with SAN system integrators.
Recent news releases and additional information about Sorrento Networks can be found at www.sorrentonet.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this release are forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Words such as ``plans,'' ``expects,'' ``intends,'' and variations of such words and similar expressions are
intended to identify such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The occurrence of actual events may differ materially
due to a variety of factors, including without limitation the following: (1) unanticipated technical problems relating to the Company's
products; (2) the Company's ability, or lack thereof, to make, market and sell optical networking products that meet with market
approval and acceptance; (3) the greater financial, technical and other resources of the Company's many, larger competitors in the
marketplace for optical networking products; (4) changed market conditions, new business opportunities or other factors that might
affect the Company's decisions as to the best interests of its shareholders; (5) other risks detailed from time to time in the
Company's parent corporation's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
GigaMux is a registered trademark of Sorrento Networks. EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise
Storage Network and SRDF are trademarks of EMC Corporation.
Contact:
Sorrento Networks Corp., San Diego
Demetri Elias, Marketing, 858/450-4938
delias@sorrentonet.com
or
Hill and Knowlton
Jeff Misakian, Investor Relations, 323/966-5684
jmisakian@hillandknowlton.com
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