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whitepaper Cisco IT Achieves Sub-Minute Recovery Point Objectives Between Sites 3000 Miles Apart Using Fibre Channel Over IP and EMC SRDF/A2006-08-09 01:00:11 Cisco Systems
  This case study describes Cisco IT's internal use of Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) with EMC SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Site Data Facility) replication within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco IT's real-world experience in this area to help support similar enterprise needs for database replication. To support disaster recovery, Cisco uses an application-based asynchronous process called electronic journaling.   
whitepaper Health First Uses Cisco Optical Network to Power the Critical Healthcare Applications of Today and Tomorrow2006-08-09 01:00:11 Cisco Systems
  Health First is one of the fastest growing healthcare organizations in Central Florida. Health First has a longstanding reputation as a technology innovator, using the latest clinical tools to enhance patient care and safety. But by 2004, as use of the clinical applications - especially the Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) - expanded, the organization was outgrowing its WAN. At the same time, the IT team was reviewing their disaster recovery strategy. They needed a more robust, flexible WAN to support the full range of Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and traditional voice services, while providing the same - or better - reliability as the existing network. They selected Cisco ONS DWDM platforms to centrally provision full-featured voice, video, data, and disaster recovery services.   
whitepaper Design Tools for Transparent Optical Networks2006-12-13 01:00:24 Alcatel-Lucent
  Optical technology promises to revolutionize data networking by providing enormous bandwidth for data transport at minimal cost. A key to cost reduction is to increase transparency, that is, to keep a data stream encoded as an optical signal for as long as possible. Wavelength switching increases transparency by allowing different data streams, each encoded in a different wavelength of light, to be independently routed through an optical network. This paper discusses Bell Labs-developed software tools that help design wavelength-switched optical networks. The software tools simultaneously minimize the cost of the designed network, reduce the time and cost to perform the design, and ensure compliance with engineering constraints.   
whitepaper Designing Routed Fibre Channel SANs Using the HP StorageWorks 400 Multi-Protocol Router and HP MP Router Blade White Paper2006-08-26 01:00:10 Hewlett-Packard
  This paper reviewed enabling technologies for routed Storage Area Networks (SAN) solutions. By adding hierarchical networking to Fibre Channel (FC), HP has combined the flexibility and scalability of data networks with the performance and reliability of FC fabrics. The FCR brings unprecedented reliability, manageability, security, flexibility, and scalability to SANs, and makes deployments practical that were not even theoretically possible before its introduction.   
whitepaper FTTP Shootout - Active Ethernet Vs PON2007-02-05 06:47:04 Alcatel-Lucent
  Triple play rollouts are one of the bright spots in the global telecom industry. Carriers and municipalities that announce plans to rollout triple play (voice, video and data) services are faced with a number of choices for an access mechanism - DSL, Fiber or even wireless. This paper focuses on fiber as the access mechanism and compares the Active Ethernet and PON architectures. The paper shows how Active Ethernet is not only more cost-effective than PON but also results in a more profitable services platform that accommodates the inevitable changes in services over time.   
whitepaper The Multimessage Unicast Capacity Region for Bidirectional Ring Networks2006-12-13 01:00:24 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Motivated by the practical importance of ring topologies, the authors consider the capacity region of several simultaneous unicast sessions along a bidirectional ring network. The problem is an extension of the classical multicommodity flow problem in which one seeks to determine if a collection of traffic rates can be feasibly routed along a network with given edge capacities. In the case presented in this paper, the authors assume that the edges represent noisy or noise-free channels and they further permit the possibility of network coding. The proof uses recently developed progressive d-separating edge set bounds, new extensions of these bounds, as well as tools from the literature on the multicommodity flow problem.   
whitepaper Mesh Networks: A Revolution in Wireless Connectivity2006-06-30 19:08:06 Motorola
  Here's a brief but informative white paper from Motorola that explains why wireless mesh networking makes any radio system perform better. The paper describes the military origins of mesh networks and explains why city governments are quickly adopting the technology to assist their police and other first responders. Find out why mesh networks are inherently more robust than traditional wireless networks and learn about a process called "multi-hopping" and how it supports high data transfer rates even over very long distances.   
whitepaper LightPointe Case Study: AOL/7 Online Services2006-06-16 01:00:27 LightPointe
  AOL/7 Online Services - a joint venture between American Online Inc., AAPT Limited, and Seven Network Limited - needed a way to link its communication network between two buildings at its Sydney headquarters. Wanting to overcome the financial and physical barriers of laying cable across busy metropolitan streets, this interactive media company began exploring an optical wireless solution from LightPointe supplied by Australian wireless expert Integrity Data Systems. AOL/7 Online Services connected its corporate office with premises 250 metres away, using a "Fiber-optic speed" optical wireless solution from LightPointe, Using breakthrough Free-Space Optics (FSO) technology, the LightPointe optical wireless link delivers 1.25 Gigabits per second of bandwidth at a fraction of the cost of a cabled connection.   
whitepaper DataGroup to Deliver DWDM Network in Ukraine With Cisco Optical Technology2006-06-07 01:00:26 Cisco Systems
  As enterprise customers recognize the benefits of convergence in their own network infrastructures, they expect their providers to deliver converged transport solutions that can reduce the need to maintain multiple wide-area networks. The telecommunication company Datagroup is the leading Ukrainian operator of integrated telecommunication services for corporate clients. The company aims to deliver a new portfolio of services ranging from high-speed Ethernet connectivity and carrier interconnect services for the Ukrainian and Pan-European market, to managed Storage Area Network (SAN) extension services. DataGroup introduced a new portfolio of high-capacity services based on the Cisco ONS 15454 MultiService Transport Platform (MSTP).   
whitepaper Sanoma Data Extends Business Continuity Infrastructure With Data Replication Solution From Cisco and HP2006-06-06 01:00:27 Cisco Systems
  Sanoma Data is the IT provider arm of leading Finnish and International publishing company Sanoma Corporation. With the growing volumes of data generated by a need to open up archive access to print and online newspapers, the company needed to implement a data centre network architecture that would help ensure data is effectively replicated across two data centre sites to provide mirrored copies for business continuity. HP and Cisco worked together to link the company's remote data center using Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) available on Cisco MDS 9216i Fabric Switches.