Brocade and MountainGate Announce Agreement to Purchase Brocade's SilkWorm Fibre Channel Network Switch
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1998--
Come see a demonstration of MountainGate's new CentraVision MPIRE
and File System, including Brocade's SilkWorm switch, at NAB, April 6-9 in Las Vegas, in MountainGate's Booth No.9384 in the
Las Vegas Convention Center
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and MountainGate Monday announced an agreement for MountainGate to integrate Brocade's SilkWorm switch with its new CentraVision MPIRE and CentraVision File System (CVFS) Fibre Channel network and storage solutions.
MountainGate's new CVFS provides editors concurrent access to digital video files stored on the network, saving time in the editing process in addition to providing implicit data conversion and bandwidth management of the network.
Additionally, editors can access digital files captured by the CentraVision MPIRE as the material is recorded frame by frame. Individual frames can be accessed as soon as they are recorded. By implementing Brocade's SilkWorm switch, MountainGate can offer its customers increased reliability and management through the ability to isolate problems on workstations or links that may go down, and to provide critical data about network traffic.
The SilkWorm switch reduces occurrences and the impact of LIP (Loop Initialization Process) resets in an arbitrated loop configuration by isolating that single port, leaving all other Fabric ports uninterrupted.
In addition, with Brocade's switch, MountainGate can offer its customers in the post-production and broadcast industries increased performance by providing each editing station its own gigabit per second bandwidth access to shared network files.
"Brocade's SilkWorm switch provides an essential component to our new MPIRE and File System solutions," said Glenn Williamson, president for MountainGate. "Not only is the switch extremely easy to configure and manage, but enables us to provide our customers with a flexible solution that can be expanded as necessary."
"The almost instantaneous access to image data provided by MountainGate's new CentraVision solutions, in combination with Brocade's gigabit Fibre Channel Fabric, will provide an incredible performance and availability boost for MountainGate's customers in post-production and broadcast facilities," said Bruce Bergman, president and chief executive officer for Brocade. "We are excited to be working with MountainGate as they continue to provide their customers with faster access for digital video applications, greater amounts of storage and better management."
About MountainGate
MountainGate has provided industry-leading removable and rugged data storage products for more than 20 years, offering the widest range of storage solutions to a variety of markets and applications.
Today, the company develops products specifically for the broadcast and entertainment industries, applying its expertise to deliver complete solutions for the storage and management of images in the digital video realm. The MountainGate CentraVision Fibre Channel system is one of the first complete Fibre Channel network and storage systems available in the industry. Other product lines include disk and RAID arrays and digital linear tape (DLT) libraries.
MountainGate has manufacturing facilities in Reno, Nev., and Torino, Italy, and sells through a worldwide dealer network. For sales and distribution information, contact MountainGate at 702/851-99393 or 800/556-0222, or send e-mail to sales@mountaingate.lmco.com. Detailed company and product information is available on the World Wide Web at www.mountaingate.com.
About Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
Brocade, the industry's leading supplier of Fibre Channel switch Fabrics, provides the intelligent backbone infrastructure for the implementation of Server-Storage Area Networks (SANs).
The company's Fabric enables end-users to optimize connections between data storage and enterprise servers, and to design high-performance, scalable data center backbones. Brocade manufactures and markets its SilkWorm Fibre Channel switch, through which Brocade provides the industry's most comprehensive Fabric services and management access methods currently available.
Brocade has headquarters at 1901 Guadalupe Parkway, San Jose, Calif., 95131. For more information about Brocade, check out the company's Web site at brocade.com, or send questions via email to info@brocade.com. -0- CentraVision is a trademark of MountainGate. SilkWorm is a trademark of Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
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