APPLICATION NOTE

Data Center
Connectivity “Enterprises today cannot
tolerate network downtime,
and they need the flexibility to
expand network services as their
business changes.”

Yasuhisa Yamada, KDDI Corporation

Your Transport Network Is a Strategic Asset

Cloud computing, virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery – all demand access to increasing
amounts of bandwidth with the lowest possible latency. Financial and regulatory demands have now forced IT
managers to reassess their data center storage strategy. Enterprises, including financial institutions and utilities,
have started to deploy geographically dispersed server clusters and SANs. Disaster recovery concepts that
guarantee the availability and survival of essential data, even in case of a catastrophic failure, have become a
mandatory design requirement. Due to the large bandwidth requirements involved, optical transport networks are
a critical strategic asset for driving innovation and success in data center connectivity. Built-in redundancy and
security concepts are essential to achieve compliance regarding data safety and integrity.

Our Solution –
a Unique, Economical DWDM Network
Private optical networks based on WDM technology
enable secure transport of massive amounts of data
between redundant data centers. Our FSP 3000
optical transport solution helps you to cost-
effectively interconnect the most demanding low-
latency, business-continuity and disaster-recovery
applications. The platform supports any interface
protocol and bit rate at native speed, including 1G,
2G, 4G and 8G Fibre Channel, FICON, InfiniBand,
Ethernet, FCoE/DCB and other protocols such as
SONET/SDH.
Our ultra-low latency optical transport technology
provides you with a competitive advantage for your
core applications of high-frequency trading, exchange
connectivity or data center interconnection. In our
FSP 3000, every component from transmitter to
receiver is optimized for speed. Whether connecting
to an information feed over Ethernet, interconnecting
virtualized servers or accessing storage networks
using Fibre Channel, our FSP 3000 allows the
transport of any protocol, over any distance, with
best-in-class latency.
By leveraging built-in protection and redundancy
concepts, our FSP 3000 dramatically improves the
overall availability of your mission-critical business
applications. It provides you with increased network
reliability to achieve regulatory compliance, whether
you are moving one Gigabit or one Terabit across
the network.
Qualified by all leading storage suppliers, our
FSP 3000 has become the foundation of thousands of
data center projects across the globe. Its robustness,
power and space efficiency, combined with a modern
suite of security features, have made it the only choice
for enterprises that must avoid application downtime,
prevent data loss and create operational efficiencies.
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Key Benefits – Delivering Security and Resiliency FSP 3000

Highest availability, lowest latency and maximum
security are all mandatory attributes of today’s
networks for enterprise data center connectivity. With
ADVA Optical Networking’s scalable optical networking
solution, you can deliver the right information to the
right hands. We have already helped more than 10,000
enterprises to build the network solutions they need to
succeed. Our industry-proven FSP 3000 scalable optical
transport solution offers:
• Ultimate flexibility and scalability
120 wavelengths and service interfaces ranging
from 10Mbit/s to 100Gbit/s for all current and
future data center applications
• Enhanced security
Integrated encryption and optical line monitoring,
addressing concerns about fiber plant integrity,
security and availability of applications
ADVA Optical Networking’s scalable optical
transport solution is a modular WDM system
specifically designed to maximize the bandwidth
and service flexibility of access, metro and core
networks. The unique optical layer design supports
WDM-PON, CWDM and DWDM technology,
including 100Gbit/s line speeds with colorless,
directionless and contentionless ROADMs.
RAYcontrol™, our integrated, industry-leading
multi-layer GMPLS control plane, guarantees
operational simplicity, even in complex meshed-
network topologies. Thanks to OTN, Ethernet
and low-latency
aggregation, the
FSP 3000 represents
a highly versatile and
cost-effective solution
for packet optical
transport.

• Lowest latency
Transparent wavelength conversion and ultra-low
latency amplification for data transfer at lowest
possible latency
• Regulatory compliance
Built-in redundancy and security concepts, allowing
users to achieve regulatory compliance regarding
data safety and integrity
• Lowest operational cost
Easy-to-install system architecture, combined with
power- and space-efficient system design for low-
est operational cost
• Industry qualifications
Qualified for interoperability with all major SAN
vendors for enterprise application extension over
hundreds of kilometers
About ADVA Optical Networking
ADVA Optical Networking is a global provider of
intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions.
With software-automated Optical+Ethernet transmission
technology, the Company builds the foundation for
high-speed, next-generation networks. The Company’s
FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to
customers’ networks while removing complexity and
cost. Thanks to reliable performance for more than 15
years, the Company has become a trusted partner for
more than 250 carriers and 10,000 enterprises across
the globe.
Partner

ADVA Optical Networking Inc.
North America, Inc.
5755 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
Norcross, Georgia 30092
USA
ADVA AG Optical Networking
Campus Martinsried
Fraunhoferstrasse 9 a
82152 Martinsried / Munich
Germany
ADVA Optical Networking
Singapore Pte.Ltd.
25 International Business Park
#05-106 German Centre
Singapore 609916

For more information visit us at www.advaoptical.com