NEWS
Vodafone New
Zealand rolls out
800G technology
with Ciena
odafone New Zealand is
V advancing its network by being
the first provider in New Zealand
to deploy 800G technology, enabling
extremely high data capacity, transmission
and speeds. Using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5
Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics between
its data centres in Auckland, Vodafone
is achieving record transmission speeds
to support growing, yet constantly
fluctuating, demands for digital services
while enabling a greener network. The
term 800G refers to 800 billion bits per
second transmission capacity, which is
enough to transport 25 HD movies in one
second or the latest virtual reality game in
a quarter of a second.
By implementing Ciena’s WL5e, Vodafone
can better manage network requirements
to support its recently launched 5G
service. The Internet provider will also
be able to offer a broad range of digital
experiences by scaling from 200G up
to 800G single wavelengths to optimise
capacity across any distance while
lowering costs. Vodafone is leveraging
its existing Ciena 6500 shelves, doubling
the data throughput for each hardware
module deployed and reducing energy
consumption by 50%.
“With Ciena’s WL5e, Vodafone will provide
increased bandwidth for a plethora of
data-hungry applications, especially
necessary as we’ve seen both increases
and spikes of data used during the past
few months,” said Tony Baird, Wholesale
and Infrastructure Director at Vodafone.
StorCentric’s Nexsan launches
Unity Third Generation 3300
and 7900 enterprise class
unified storage
exsan, a StorCentric
N company and a global
leader in unified storage
solutions, has announced the
launch of its Unity Third Generation
3300 and 7900 enterprise class
unified storage – the industry’s
most powerful platform for mixed
workloads. Offering a powerful
new range of features, including
Unbreakable Backup, which
protects backups in the event of a
ransomware attack, and the Data
Migration and Cloud Connector
Modules, that enable enterprise
users to move data as needed for
tiered storage and optimised hybrid
cloud infrastructures.
Unity is a high availability
solution designed specifically
for enterprises, with the 3300
and 7900 offering flexible hybrid
and all-flash configurations for
simplified expansion, delivering
core enterprise features in a single
platform. Unity meets the needs
of critical business applications,
with the new platform providing
significant capacity increases in both
HDD and SSD configurations and
up to a 50% performance increase
over the Second Generation Unity.
Unity storage is deployed in the
most demanding SAN and NAS
enterprise environments from financial
institutions, television and movie
production companies, to hospitals
and national research labs. Unity
supports applications ranging from
backup, virtualisation and databases,
to file sharing, video editing and more.
The advanced Unity architecture
seamlessly operates with the
Assureon active data vault, providing
customers the peace of mind that
their data is protected for regulatory
compliance and from security
breaches including ransomware.
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