(Source: Wireless News)
Ciena, a network specialist, announced that the Korea Exchange (KRX), a capital market in Northeast Asia, has deployed Ciena's optical service delivery platforms as part of its data center consolidation efforts.
The company said that the solutions provide high-performance connectivity in KRX's data center architecture to ensure the delivery of time-sensitive applications and reliable business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) services, while reducing overall network bandwidth consumption.
In the highly competitive financial services market, a few milliseconds delay in the execution of trades can cost an exchange millions in lost transactions. With the growth in the volume of electronic trading and the bandwidth requirements of market-data feeds expanding, trading volume and market volatility are challenging the capabilities of legacy networks.
"We specialize in building high-performance architectures that are designed to reliably deliver mission-critical transactions while meeting the stringent requirements of BC/DR applications," said Phil Moser, Ciena's vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific. "Our solutions optimize KRX's network with cost-efficient features like compression and bandwidth utilization and offer greater network visibility, creating a secure infrastructure with unmatched performance and scalability to support their business objectives."
Ciena said that its optical service delivery solutions use compression and dynamic bandwidth assignment to allow a variety of applications, such as Storage Area Networking (SAN), Disk Mirroring, Remote Backup, Mainframe, LAN, Clustering, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) to share a single WAN connection, simplifying network design and increasing bandwidth efficiency. In addition, Ciena noted that its ON-Center Network and Service Management Suite enables KRX to provision new connections easily and rapidly, modify and review service parameters, view real-time performance and health metrics graphs, track historical usage of MAN/WAN bandwidth, and perform other important operational tasks via a simple point-and-click interface.
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