Financial institutions face a unique set of challenges when it comes to their IT infrastructure and data center consolidation. On one hand, they rely heavily on their networks to increase their competitiveness by connecting data centers in a fast and reliable way and addressing the growing need for bandwidth capacity. On the other hand, they need to ensure the security and constant availability of their data services and meet national and international compliance regulations.
Our Offering
The PacketLight products are aimed at helping financial institutions meet today's data connectivity and Business Continuity needs with carrier class, high performance yet user friendly and competitive products. Our offer to financial institutions and enterprises are the following core competencies:
- Highly scalable secure optical solutions
- High throughput capability over short and long distances
- Simple to install and maintain
- The most cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery and storage solutions
- Maximizing ROI of the existing fiber infrastructure
- Featuring extremely low latency transparent solution which is mandatory for most applications
Our Technology
Often, the best connectivity media for financial institutions to achieve their business objectives is the optical fiber in the form of dark fiber. However, to implement fiber optic connectivity can be expensive unless using WDM technology and is largely in the hands of the telecommunication providers. PacketLight’s CWDM and DWDM products connect into the existing dark fiber infrastructure and give financial institutions and enterprises much easier and low cost path to high capacity connectivity while maintaining their own control over the fiber optic network.
WDM technology enables multiplexing of commonly used network protocols at the photonic level. CWDM enables an extension of the dark fiber data transport capacity by a factor of 8 to 16 times, while DWDM enables scalability to up to 32 channels and provides immediate ROI for the user. Each CWDM wavelength supports up to 4.25Gbps. This transfer rate is sufficient to support GbE, Fast Ethernet, 1/2/4Gbps FC, STM-1/STM-4/STM-16, and many other transport protocols. DWDM technology supports more channels and support higher traffic services such as 10Gbps of 10GbE LAN/WAN, 10G FC, STM-64/OC-192 and OTU-2 protocols.
WDM equipment is generally located on the customer premises thus leaving the maintenance and scalability decisions to the customer. In a point-to-point configuration the PacketLight network appliance provides fiber termination and multiplexing functionality for the dark fiber, and in a ring topology provides the termination and drop and insert functionality at all nodes in the ring. Each node could be a different branch office or alternate data centers in a disaster recovery scenario.
The equipment serves as the demarcation point between the Ethernet Switch, SONET/SDH ADM or Fiber Channel switch and the dark fiber. The PacketLight network appliances are delivered in a cost effective 1U unit form factor, providing a compelling ROI; are easy to install, take up minimal space and use minimal power reducing the OPEX significantly.
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