TCB Technologies Corporation Qualifies Groundbreaking InfiniBand-Over-WAN Solution From Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
March 26 2008 - 9:00AM
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FREMONT, CA , a global provider of multi-service network and
voice exchange solutions for government and enterprise customers,
announced today that its NX5010 multi-protocol, high speed network
exchange InfiniBand platform has passed qualification testing
conducted by TCB Technologies Corporation, a leading InfiniBand
interconnect solutions vendor based in Japan. TCB's extensive tests
were designed to validate the NX5010's reliability, scalability and
performance for extending InfiniBand fabrics over very high speed
Wide Area Networks (WANs). NET and TCB intend to launch a joint
marketing and sales campaign to introduce the NX5010 to the
Japanese market. TCB will also provide solutions engineering
services to Japanese customers in need of InfiniBand extension over
the WAN.
InfiniBand over the WAN, as delivered by NET's NX5010, provides
a seamless method of interconnecting data centers and leveraging
geographically isolated islands of processing power and storage
resources. The NX5010 has been architected to serve the needs of
the next-generation virtual data center, providing support for
real-time database mirroring, grid computing and data access
continuity applications between sites. With the ability to map
InfiniBand fabrics and 10Gbps Ethernet LANs across 10Gbps/OC192c
WANs at line-rate speeds, the NX5010's performance and scalability
allows businesses to implement multi-site data center operations
for simplified business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
TCB will leverage its extensive experience in the InfiniBand space
to engineer InfiniBand-over-WAN solutions for its extensive and
marquee Japanese customer base using the NX5010.
"On its own, InfiniBand provides a ready solution for
interconnecting within the data center, but it's a challenge to
link geographically isolated data centers and enable
end-user-transparent resource sharing across sites," says John
Sandschulte, VP and GM of NET's Broadband Technology Group. "The
NX5010 provides a ground-breaking InfiniBand-over-WAN solution to
tie together data centers to create a virtual, global data center.
The NX5010 has also been successfully deployed by multiple U.S.
government agencies."
NET and TCB worked together to construct and conduct a
comprehensive testing apparatus that demonstrated the capabilities
and performance of NET's NX5010 solution for InfiniBand over the
WAN. The test entailed connecting multiple geographically disparate
servers over a single, virtual InfiniBand fabric to enable
deployment of multi-site, multi-node redundant synchronous database
applications. The NX5010 was also tested for resiliency through
provisioning of primary and backup WAN links between sites, and
validating that the NX5010 continued to emulate the InfiniBand
fabric without interruption during WAN link outages.
"We are excited about introducing NET's highly resilient, high
speed NX5010 InfiniBand-over-WAN solution to our Japanese
customers. Our customers are very interested in the sheer
flexibility and network design simplification that comes from being
able to connect multiple disparate data centers to provide
operational survivability and disaster recovery capabilities over
distances of thousands of kilometers," says Akihiko Kasuya, General
Manager of TCB's Server Solutions Division. "Extending InfiniBand
over the WAN with NET's NX5010 delivered outstanding performance
and reliability at an affordable price. We believe that these
solutions will drive a new paradigm in datacenter architecture that
will lower expense, provide redundancy, and deliver higher asset
utilization."
About Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
For nearly a quarter of a century, Network Equipment
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: NWK) has provided voice and data
communications equipment for multi-service networks requiring high
degrees of versatility, interoperability, security and performance.
NET's broad family of products are purpose-built for mixed-service,
multi-protocol networks; bandwidth-sensitive site communications;
high-performance, security-sensitive transmissions; and converged
communications. The company's NX Series for network exchange
solutions and VX Series for voice exchange solutions enable
interoperability and integration with existing networks for
seamless migration to secure IP-based voice and data
communications. In addition, Quintum, a subsidiary of NET, delivers
VoIP access solutions that bring the reliability and voice clarity
of public telephone networks to Internet telephony.
For more information, visit www.net.com.
About TCB Technologies Corporation
TCB Technologies Corporation (TCB), headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, is an Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
solutions provider. TCB is a leading InfiniBand solutions provider
in Japan and has successfully deployed InfiniBand switches and host
channel adaptors (HCA) within national laboratories, universities
and the automobile industry. TCB also markets IBAS, InfiniBand
based storage solutions, which take advantage of InifiBand's
high-bandwidth and low-latency attributes for SAN and NAS
deployments.
InfiniBand is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand
Trade Association. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are
the property of the companies with which they are associated.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, within
the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, relating to potential sales of the
NX5010 product. Investors are cautioned that such statements are
based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that
involve risks and uncertainty that may cause actual results to
differ materially from those expressed or implied in the
forward-looking statements. Factors that could affect such results
include timely completion of product development initiatives,
market acceptance, performance of third-party partners regarding
product sales and service, technological changes, and new
competition.
Contact: Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. Leigh Salvo (510)
647-8870 Email Contact
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