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“The Anue Team’s expertise and technology were a key part of the success of our project. By implementing Anue’s recommendations and leveraging the full feature set of the device, we were able to validate the solution on multiple levels. We’re now going to deploy our data center consolidations worldwide with the assurance that we’ll meet all of the business requirements.”
-Hugo Espinoza
AXA Technologies
AXA Technologies
Case Study: Remote Storage
Summary
For many large companies, establishing a remote data center is an important business and regulatory requirement. This Case Study describes how Anue Emulators are helping one such organization meet its business-critical storage needs.
Client Profile
One of the largest auto insurance companies in the US, with over 12 million customers, purchased Anue’s “M Series” combo GigE and SONET Network Emulators in December 2004. They needed to emulate a DASD mirroring configuration over 1400 - 2000 miles, as part of a disaster recovery/business continuity backup solution from their Midwest headquarters to their remote data center in Colorado.
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Project Initiative
Delays and impairments experienced on an optical network of this size can have devastating affects on storage and other software applications. In particular, such problems can impact the performance of the network, the integrity of critical business data as well as the recovery time in case of a disaster.
The WAN link was a SONET OC-48, provided by AT&T with a 99.85% Error Free Seconds (EFS) performance commitment. This corresponds to setting the Anue Emulator to a 6 x 10 BER. Transmission delays experienced by end users or software applications will be approximately 10ms.
Project Objective
Before emulating SONET transmission, the customer started with the Anue Emulator in GigE mode. In a test environment, they connected the bi-directional Anue box between two endpoint multiprotocol switching platforms. Both Cisco’s Optical Multi-Service Edge & Transport (COMET) and CNT UltraNet Multi-Service Directors were tested. A Hitachi Data Systems
storage array is the target device. This purpose is to simulate delays and impairments these devices will experience in a production network and quantify their performance
The Anue Network Emulator at Work
Anue Network Emulators enabled the IT department at this company to validate their remote storage solution in a lab setting before deployment. The IT department is able to confirm that their complete backup plan meets their business continuity and disaster recovery objectives given the approximate 10 ms transmission latency and the specified carrier service level. Without Network Emulators from Anue Systems, this company would have to “wait and see” how the production network affects its recovery and continuity plans at the time of
deployment.
Customer Value
With Anue’s Emulators, performance can be repeatedly tested and characterized under different scenarios in a lab environment, streamlining the roll out of new technologies and applications, and saving significantly in terms of productivity and efficiency.