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Finisar's Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite Selected as Standard I/O Tool for System Test at Brocade
SAN Market Leader Standardizes I/O Testing on Finisar; Cites "Improved Test Efficiency" as Key Factor in Decision
| Source: Finisar
SUNNYVALE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 30, 2006 -- Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ : FNSR ), a
technology leader in fiber optic and test and measurement solutions for
high-speed data networks, today announced that Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ : BRCD ) has begun to standardize and deploy I/O
testing on Finisar's Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite. Brocade, the world's
leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks
(SANs), will utilize the data integrity, performance, unique triggering and
stress test tool suite from Finisar's Medusa Labs to enhance their product
development and accelerate time to market.
"Because Brocade solutions are the industry benchmark for shared storage
connectivity, our customers have come to expect the first and most
innovative products available," said Tom Buiocchi, vice president of World
Wide Marketing at Brocade. "Finisar's Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite enables
fast and rigorous testing of our complete portfolio of connectivity
solutions to ensure that we continue to exceed the expectations of our
rapidly growing customer base."
"Medusa Labs test tools meet the extreme demands of enterprise test and
development engineers," said Dave Buse, senior vice president and general
manager at Finisar. "These test tools are designed to detect and analyze
more anomalies than competing solutions, allowing our customers to deliver
product performance, reliability, and robustness in mission-critical
enterprise environments."
Delivering Better Products Faster
Finisar's Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite is a set of performance, data
integrity, and stress test tools that enable customers to validate and
deliver quality products quickly. This test tool suite fills a void in the
industry for software test tools that meet the stringent requirements of
today's technology innovators. Finisar's Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite was
specifically designed to find elusive data corruptions, I/O timeouts, I/O
loss and system lockup scenarios. The feature-rich test tools stress
hardware and signal integrity while delivering comprehensive debug and
logging information for rapid analysis. The suite was designed
specifically for design validation, bring-up and quality assurance.
About Brocade
Brocade delivers industry-leading platforms, solutions, and services for
intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared
storage environments. The world's premier systems, server, and storage
providers offer the Brocade SilkWorm family of Storage Area Network (SAN)
connectivity platforms as the foundation for shared storage in
organizations of all sizes. In addition, the Brocade Tapestry™ family of
IT infrastructure solutions extends the ability to proactively manage and
optimize application and information resources across the enterprise. Using
Brocade solutions, organizations are better positioned to reduce cost,
manage complexity, and satisfy business compliance requirements through
optimized use and management of their IT resources. For more information,
visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at
info@brocade.com.
About Finisar
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ : FNSR ) is a technology leader for fiber optic
components and subsystems and network test and monitoring systems. These
products enable high-speed data communications for networking and storage
applications over Gigabit Ethernet Local Area Networks (LANs), Fibre
Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
using Fibre Channel, IP, SAS, SATA and SONET/SDH protocols. The Company's
headquarters is in Sunnyvale, California, USA. www.finisar.com.