Optimal Solutions For Data Center Connect (DCC)

Alcatel-Lucent

Abstract:

In a Web 2.0 world, enterprise customers expect anywhere, anytime access to storage and computing capabilities from their service provider (SP). Accommodating these demands for large numbers of enterprise customers, each with many sites, spread over a large geographic area, has driven SPs to implement highly scalable storage and computing resources in their data centers. These data center resources can be dedicated to individual customers or applications, or can be virtually “shared” for optimal utilization. This new generation of virtual computing and storage resources dictate that SPs need more than a pair of (active and backup) data centers — and typically require many data centers to support their enterprise customer base. Low latency transport enables multidata center architectures, where all data centers are connected together with a scalable and redundant mesh of high-speed links. The data center mesh then delivers processing, storage, and networking to end-user locations for optimal application performance, even though the underlying data may be moving dynamically between data centers attached to the mesh.

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