Mahwah/New Jersey, USA, and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. September 12, 2005. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that Weill Medical College of Cornell University has deployed ADVA's Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 2000 optical networking solution to support Gigabit Ethernet voice and data applications and Fibre Channel storage services. ADVA's Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) system provides secure, redundant links between Weill Medical College's main campus and off-site data center, high-speed connectivity to the Internet and Internet2 through the NYSERNet New York City Dark Fiber Network and ample, affordable scalability for emerging bandwidth needs.
Having outgrown its data center on Cornell University's main campus on the upper eastside of New York City and needing a disaster recovery site, Weill Medical College opened an off-site facility in midtown in 2003. At about the same time, Weill Medical College connected to the statewide optical network, NYSERNet New York City Dark Fiber Network, designed to provide nearly unlimited capacity at a fixed price for research and education institutions. ADVA FSP 2000 platforms are deployed at each of the three sites along Weill Medical College's 25-kilometer backbone ring network: the off-site data center, the main campus and a NYSERNet co-location facility.
"ADVA's solution met our financial and operational needs for reliable, high-speed performance at cost-effective rates," said Dr. Steven Erde, senior director of the Office of Academic Computing at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. "We initially looked at T3 connections and saw they weren't going to cut it and then the big question became CWDM versus DWDM (Dense WDM). In most cases, DWDM delivers more scalability than CWDM, but DWDM provided more bandwidth and channels than we needed. With the ADVA system, we are getting the same degree of redundancy and fault tolerance with CWDM as is possible with DWDM but at a lower price point."
In either flavor of WDM, applications of any recognized protocol are multiplexed across a single fiber pair. Application performance is native-speed and the fiber infrastructure is cost-effectively shared. The primary difference between CWDM and DWDM is the number of application channels supported. CWDM uses wider spacings between wavelengths (20 nanometers to DWDM's 1.6 nanometers or smaller), so fewer channels are created in CWDM (typically eight to DWDM's 64). Because they require lower-cost components, CWDM systems tend to cost 30 to 50 percent less than DWDM systems of the same channel count and system functionality.
"CWDM provides a compelling, cost-effective alternative for projects where DWDM is overkill," said Brian P. McCann, chief marketing and strategy officer with ADVA Optical Networking. "Our new CWDM ring feature was perfect for this customer. More enterprises than ever before are able to afford the unprecedented benefits of high-performance Ethernet and storage services thanks to the emergence of CWDM in important, growing segments of optical networking. We look forward to cooperating further with Weill Medical College to support its connectivity needs today and tomorrow."
ADVA's FSP 2000 was launched in May 2001 and more than 3,000 systems have already been sold. Targeted toward enterprises and carriers, parallel use of C/DWDM and muxponder technology enables up to 512 applications to be transported over one single fiber pair. The FSP 2000's robust character and ability to transport all protocols between 8Mbit/s and 10Gbit/s per wavelength make the product an ideal solution, particularly for large-scale, high-bandwidth networks.
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ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is a leading global provider of optical networking solutions for rapid and cost-effective provisioning of high-speed data, storage, voice, and video services in the metropolitan area. ADVA's carrier-class Fiber Service Platform (FSP) product portfolio is explicitly designed to enhance services, simplify networks, and reduce the total cost of ownership. ADVA's solutions have been deployed at over 100 carriers and several thousand enterprises worldwide. ADVA's products are sold through an international network of blue-chip distribution partners in addition to its own direct sales force.
ABOUT WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1898, Cornell University Medical College, now known as the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, has long ranked among the leading medical schools in the United States. From the start, the Medical College has followed an educational philosophy that emphasizes the importance of combining a strong basic foundation in the medical sciences with extensive clinical training in patient care. Weill Cornell physicians and scientists are engaged in both basic and clinical research in the cutting-edge areas of genetics and gene therapy, neuroscience, structural biology, and cardiovascular medicine, among many other areas. In partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, Weill Cornell now provides expanded opportunities for students to gain clinical experience in a variety of settings. It is also the first American medical school with a branch overseas to award an American degree to its graduates. Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, which opened in fall 2002, offers young people in the region an unprecedented opportunity to study medicine and gain clinical experience in a rapidly developing educational locale.
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