BROOMFIELD, Colo., Dec. 6, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading provider of data access solutions, today announced it has surpassed $1 billion in sales revenue for its line of Eclipse and UltraNet SAN routing and extension products.
With more than 10,000 installations worldwide, McDATA has become a trusted advisor to customers looking for reliable and robust routing and distance solutions to support their business requirements whether they be continuance and disaster recovery, data retention and regulatory compliance or global access and resource optimization.
"The McDATA USD-X gave us the ability to deploy our disaster recovery site outside the (earthquake) danger zone," said Ed Abbott, information operations manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. "Without the USD-X, we would have had to take a chance that an earthquake could take out both data centers."
Partners, like Canadian telecommunications provider TELUS -- which chose McDATA Eclipse SAN Routers to support an outsourced Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) offering for its customers -- rely on McDATA's broad portfolio of BC/DR extension and routing solutions to support customer requirements and gain competitive business advantages.
"What we've done has been a significant advantage for us. We tested four vendors' solutions before settling on the Eclipse," said Shawn Myron, senior product manager for TELUS' Managed IT Solutions group. "The performance of the SAN router is such that we can offer recovery time and recovery point objective service levels in the 15-minute or less range at a price unheard of by our competitors."
Almost a decade since it first introduced SAN routing and extension products, McDATA has remained the leader in open systems and mainframe extension solutions that involve disk and tape applications. Whether it be multi-protocol SAN interconnectivity or SAN extension over IP or ATM, McDATA's Eclipse and UltraNet SAN routing and extension products help keep customers' diverse infrastructures connected and support multi-protocol storage and IP networking architectures locally and at global distances.
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data.
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