Marconi Introduces OC-192c Media and Protocol Gateway

Marconi introduced an OC-192c Media and Protocol Gateway designed to extend the benefits of high-speed encryption to a variety of network interfaces in use over LAN, WAN and storage-area networks. The new MPG-1000 will provide 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet services over OC-48c and OC-192c transport technologies -- SONET, Optical Cross Connect, and ATM -- in its initial release, planned for early 2005. In future releases, the platform will support interfaces for Infiniband, Packet over SONET, Fiber Channel, and SMPTE 292M (High-Definition Television).



Marconi said the MPG-1000 gives high-performance computing users a means of transporting heir data across the WAN as if locally interconnected through SCSI, Fiber Channel or Infiniband.
In addition, by supporting encryption of data traffic at speeds up to OC-192c (10 Gbps) via a variety of network interfaces, the MPG-1000 device ensures that all applications -- regardless of transport protocol -- can be secured across LANs, WANs and SANs, such as cluster, grid or supercomputing.



Examples of critical applications might include secure transport of multimedia, such as real-time surveillance video from fixed or mobile cameras or other sensor-derived data; the transport of very large, image-rich data, such as geo-positioning files used in weather forecasting, oil and gas exploration; and defense and intelligence activities. http://www.marconi.com