Following extensive interoperability testing, EMC has qualified the Metro1500 as interoperable with EMC`s Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems, enabling customers to create flexible and reliable information infrastructure across metropolitan area networks and beyond.
"Earning the EMC `seal of approval` is a very significant development because it assures our enterprise customers that the Cisco Metro 1500 has been tested extensively and is ready for deployment in today`s high-availability, demanding ESN [Enterprise Storage Network] environments," says Carl Engineer, director of the Metropolitan Services Business Unit at Cisco Systems.
:Through the combined efforts of EMC and Cisco, customers will now have access to a cost-efficient solution that can join multiple storage networks over very long distances. This is an important step in realising the vision of globally networked storage."
Says Graham Prime, senior product marketing manager of EMC SA: "The rapid convergence of enterprise storage and optical networking is extending the reach of networked storage from the campus to the global environment, dramatically increasing the value of information. The joint development work of EMC and Cisco is enabling customers to better manage the explosive growth of information that every organisation faces: what EMC calls the Content Big Bang."
The Cisco Metro 1500 is a cost-effective MAN DWDM (metropolitan-area network, dense wavelength division multiplexing) system that provides mission-critical solutions in the areas of gigabit data networking, storage area network (SAN) connectivity, wide-area networking and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) aggregation for enterprise users. It is a bit-rate independent enterprise DWDM platform that is easy to deploy, provision and operate.
Capable of providing 32 wavelengths per fibre, the Cisco Metro 1500 supports Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Enterprise System Connection (ESCON), Fibre Channel Connection (FICON), SONET payloads (both POS and ATM) transparently over point-to-point, add-drop and derived-ring architectures.
Optical networks use high-speed, high-bandwidth fibre optics to instantly, reliably and cost-effectively transmit large amounts of data between multiple EMC Enterprise Storage systems, Fibre Channel switches and servers over long distances. "Customers are able to deploy these networks in campus or metropolitan areas for a wide range of applications including e-commerce, and to facilitate information consolidation, high-speed centralised backup and storage area networking," Prime adds.
The EMC ESN offers universal data access for every major computing platform, operating system and application across any combination of SCSI, Ultra-SCSI, Fibre Channel and ESCON technologies. It integrates Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems, CLARiiON Extended Storage systems, EMC Connectrix Fibre Channel directors and switches, Celerra File Server System, advanced network technology, enterprise storage software, such as Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), consulting and services into one complete package.
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