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whitepaper Oracle Replication With Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) Disk Drives White Paper2005-08-02 03:00:01
  The role of replication and backup operations in data protection and recovery are a critical part of securing online business assets and ensuring operational integrity. HP recognizes the importance of multi-level data recovery and protection for critical database applications and offers flexible low-cost solutions that meet the needs of the simplest to the most complex IT environment. These solutions include the introduction of an entirely new class of disk drive technology - the Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives. This white paper provides performance reference information for the new FATA disk drive as a replication/backup destination for Oracle 9i databases. It also compares FATA performance with the performance of other Fibre Channel disks and tape drives tested under similar conditions.   
whitepaper Connecting the Public: The Truth About Municipal Broadband2005-08-23 03:00:03
  Municipal broadband plays a critical role in making the goal of universal deployment a reality. Traditionally, local governments have proven vital in deploying necessary infrastructure. For example, local governments built municipal power systems as part of the efforts to electrify America in the first part of the 20th Century. Local governments run public transportation networks and sewage networks, maintain local roads, build schools and hospitals despite the fact that private businesses could, and in many places do, provide competing services. As broadband becomes a necessary utility for commerce, education and healthcare, hundreds of local government entities across the country have taken up their traditional role of providing needed services to residents and local businesses.   
whitepaper Cisco OC-192/STM-64 Link Upgrade Planning2005-10-06 03:00:02
  The Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) is widely deployed in many service provider networks. The support of 10-Gbps (OC-192/STM-64) long-reach/long-haul optics enables service providers to take full advantage of their embedded fiber plant by upgrading their existing OC-48/STM-16 optical spans to OC-192/STM-64, without incurring the high cost of upgrading their fiber or adding new DWDM equipment. This paper is designed to help service providers understand the relevant issues when they are deploying or upgrading fiber spans to 10 Gbps; in addition, it describes how to successfully qualify fiber facilities before attempting an upgrade or activation.   
whitepaper Using the Cisco SPAN Port for SAN Analysis2005-11-03 01:00:03
  For managing and troubleshooting a production SAN, the Cisco SPAN port is a convenience feature. With the SPAN port, users who connect analysis equipment into their SAN fabric do not need to bring down the SAN or interrupt production traffic. Offered on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Fibre Channel switches and directors, SPAN technology allows users to configure any switch port to mirror data passing through any other switch port, or aggregate of switch ports, within the fabric. The SPAN port can mirror ports whether local (on the same switch) or remote (on another switch connected to the fabric). An analyzer uses the SPAN port to collect traffic for analysis.   
whitepaper EMC CLARiiON iSCSI Support2005-07-05 03:00:02
  EMC recently announced native iSCSI support for its CLARiiON AX100i, CX300i and CX500i networked storage products. With this announcement, EMC now offers iSCSI support across the broadest range of block and file based storage systems available in the industry. ESG estimates that up to 60% of the storage capacity sold each year is held captive inside or directly attached to servers and workstations.   
whitepaper Creating an Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network2005-09-01 03:00:02
  The purpose of this white paper is to introduce the reader to AREON - Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network - a new education and research fiber optic network that will span the state of Arkansas and join with surrounding states to form a regional optical network. This network is one of a growing number of optical networks that the higher education community is building, both regionally and nationally. One important new network, the National LambdaRail (NLR), is a major initiative to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications. NLR is designed to meet the computational and networking research needs projected for the next decade.   
whitepaper Local Powering Solutions for Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Technology2005-06-08 03:00:01 American Power Conversion (APC)
  This paper starts with an overview of the markets' primary line (lifeline) powering issues, and follows with a discussion of the potential power problems that currently exist in today's marketplace. A review of the purpose for a battery back-up solution in the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) application will be followed by listing three powering options available to locally power the Optical Network Termination device (ONT) while briefly outlining the pros and cons of each available option.   
whitepaper Fibre Channel Write Acceleration2005-11-03 01:00:03 Cisco Systems
  The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provide a complete set of intelligent storage services that include Fibre Channel Write Acceleration (FC-WA), which can dramatically improve the number of Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) I/O operations per second over long-distance in a Fibre Channel-based storage area network (SAN), by reducing the effect of transport latency on the processing of each operation.   
whitepaper Cisco Uses Dark Fiber and CWDM Technology for Lower Cost and Increased Network Availability20050105091857 Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems maintains two sales offices in Tokyo, Japan. Although a dedicated data center appeared to be a good solution, the cost of providing reliable connectivity between the data center and the two sales offices seemed prohibitive. In 2003, with the construction of a dedicated data center under serious consideration, Cisco Japan IT again investigated dark fiber. In addition, the Cisco coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM) gigabit interface converter (GBIC) solution was now available, which could provide economical optical bandwidth scalability with little or no management requirements. With dark fiber, Cisco has the ability to select circuits from different providers, ensuring physically diverse routes, which was an important requirement.   
whitepaper Veritas Storage Foundation for Networks in a Dual-Redundant Fabric Architecture2005-11-03 01:00:03
  In a dual-redundant fabric architecture, redundant paths exist between Fibre Channel initiators and targets. If any component on one path becomes unstable or fails, the redundant path will maintain full availability, with the appropriate multipathing on the host and redundant controllers on the storage. Some of the concerns around single fabric configurations are due to scalability issues, user errors, and instability at the time this technology was being developed. Cisco Systems has devised a product architecture to maximize fabric isolation for the Cisco MDS 9000 Series Advanced Services Module (ASM) running VERITAS Storage Foundation for Networks (SFN).