Chapter 4 FCIP over IP/MPLS Core
MPLS VPN Core
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• | Synchronous | • | Require no data loss | • | CLARiiON | • | Ethernet | • | DWDM | • | DWDM | |
• | Data replication | • | High volume/rev. impact | • | Symmetrix | • | Fibre | • | SONET | • | ONS 15530 | |
• | • | Finance/banking/brokerage | • | Hitachi |
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| distance data | • | Telecom/federal defense | • | And so on | • | FICON |
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• | Asynchronous | • | Larger market | • | Symmetrix | • | Ethernet | • | SONET | • | ONS 15454 | |
• | Data replication | • | Healthcare | • | CLARiiON | • | Fibre | • | FCIP | • | MDS 9xxx | |
• | (Near | • | Life Sci/Biomedical |
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• | High speed |
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• | Remote |
| • | Service Organizations | • | CLARiiON | • | Fibre | • | T3 | • | MDS 9xxx, |
| database backup | • | Airlines | • | /UltraNet |
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• | Low speed |
| • | All Tier | • | CLARiiON | • | Fibre | • | T1 | • | 15310 |
• | Remote backup |
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MPLS VPN Core
MPLS provides an efficient mechanism for supporting VPNs, which offer performance guarantees and security. Using a VPN, customer traffic passes transparently through the Internet in a way that effectively segregates the storage traffic from other traffic on the backbone network. Figure
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