| MRV Products Financial Institutions  Banks, insurance providers, trading floors and electronic exchanges all require extremely high-speed, robust networks to operate their businesses. In the financial industry, any lost time is directly measurable as lost revenue. More and more, customers are relying on the on-line presence of their financial institutions for day-to-day activity, whether searching for a local doctor or requesting an on-line trade execution. Big server farms store vast amounts of data and process endless transactions, requiring backup sites for disaster recovery that are connected in real-time to the main site. As a result of business expansion, as well as M&A activity, the network is constantly stressed with new requirements. All of these conditions, and many others, require the network infrastructure to be flexible, reliable and secure. For campus networks, MRV provides a wide range of solutions with the FiberDriverT line of fiber-optic products. Many buildings can be easily interconnected with various protocols, including Ethernet and IP, SONET and ATM, and Storage Protocols (FiberChannel, FICON and ESCON). With Wave-Division Multiplexing products, the bandwidth carried over the fiber-optic infrastructure can be dramatically increased, by simply using several wavelengths to carry Gigabit Ethernet or any other protocol between the buildings. The OptiSwitchT family of flexible, scalable Ethernet and IP switches and routers provides a solution for that scales to hundreds of Gigabits of wire-speed IP routing. Data from offices can easily be aggregated into a core network that supports security and Quality of Service. MRV's unique Ethernet Circuit technology provides a full security and bandwidth control solution from the edge to the core of the network. Users, both external and internal, cannot access prohibited parts of the network. Ethernet Circuit technology delivers the utmost security and privacy for sensitive data. With the bandwidth control feature of the OptiSwitchT, scarce resources, such as Internet connections and shared servers can be protected from congestion by reserving bandwidth for high-priority applications. This is a critical issue in the fast moving world of electronic transactions. In many cases, financial institutions operate on multi-building campuses, or in neighboring buildings as a result of expansion or M&A. Today, many of these facilities, even though they are very close together, are inter-connected through a low-speed WAN connection, using T1 or E1 technology, or are not connected at all. It is often difficult or impractical to install fiber-optic cabling from building to building. When this is the case, the MRV TereScopeT line of Free-Space Optics (FSO) products provides a quick and easy solution for delivering huge bandwidth quickly, at very attractive prices, between buildings. With only line-of-site as a requirement, FSO technology creates a high-speed network interconnect (up to Gigabit Ethernet speeds), making two or more facilities act as a single large network. FSO technology is highly secure, even though it is wireless - it is impossible to 'tap' in passively as with other wireless transmission media. In an environment of rapid change, with mergers and acquisitions happening all the time, interoperability is also a key issue. MRV equipment fully conforms to all relevant industry standards, including IEEE 802.1, 802.3 and all IETF routing protocol standards (such as RIP and OSPF). Our products are also easy to deploy and manage. The MegaVision WebT Network Management System provides a complete solution for managing all MRV and other 3rd party products with a Web-based interface. In large campuses, the network management process can be complicated and cumbersome. With MegaVision, together with the In-ReachT and LX Remote Presence Management solutions, this task is centralized and simplified. Remote Presence technology allows the administrator to securely access any part of the network either in-band (through the network itself) or out-of-band (through the telephony network) for management purposes. MRV's solution even includes the ability to manage the power connections of remote servers, so that an administrator can force a crashed server to power-cycle without ever leaving the office. To find out more about MRV solutions for Financial Institutions, contact your MRV sales representative, at sales@americanteledata.com. |
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