Lucent and McData Team on SAN Solutions

Lucent Technologies will partner with McData Corporation to offer comprehensive solutions for storage networking both in and between data centers. The joint solutions will integrate Lucent's OptiStar EdgeSwitch 2.0 with McDATA's suite of Intrepid Directors and Sphereon Fabric Switches. Lucent's OptiStar EdgeSwitch is an optical IP and storage router that extends Fibre Channel traffic, along with Ethernet-based LAN and network-attached storage traffic, over network backbones. An upcoming update to the OptiStar EdgeSwitch will add Domain Virtualization technology to provide advanced inter-fabric routing and firewall capabilities for distributed SAN operations. McData's Sphereon 4500 is a flexible SAN fabric switch for small to medium-sized enterprises. Additional areas of focus for the partnership include storage extension over DWDM using the Metropolis Enhanced Optical Networking (EON) platform, integrated security offerings with the VPN Firewall Brick family of products and McDATA's SANtegrity security suite, and end-to-end storage network management combining products such as McDATA's SANavigator and Lucent's VitalSuite offerings.
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