Extending the Virtual Data Center
Long Distance Virtualization
Enterprises are employing virtualization to optimize and scale their IT infrastructure, while providing a more flexible and elastic computing and storage capability. With the advent of Cloud computing and advanced managed services, the industry is trending towards a distributed data center environment where high speed, low latency connectivity extends virtualized computing and storage across the wide area network.
There are many reasons for considering the WAN extension of virtualized environments, ranging from less expensive power and real estate to interconnecting enterprise locations to a hosting / cloud operator and disaster recovery service providers. To date, the interconnection of data centers has typically required dark fiber, which may be costly and difficult to provision, is inflexible in terms of distance and provides only point to point connections. A new paradigm is required to meet the on-demand, flexible requirements of virtual data center.
AFORE´s ASE3300 is a purpose built platform designed to interconnect data centers over any media, including IP, MPLS, Metro Ethernet, PDH and fixed wireless networks. Its unique Virtual Fiber and Virtual Wire capabilities provide the key features required for long distance virtualization.
Virtual Fiber - Simplifies Wide Area Connectivity
- Leverage lower cost IP, MPLS & Ethernet wide area connectivity.
- Reduce dependency on dark fiber or dedicated circuits.
- Multi-Protocol transport for Ethernet and Fibre Channel.
- Encrypt all critical data In-Flight.
- Mitigate packet loss and effects from WAN errors.
Virtual Wire - Provides Transparent, Optimized Bandwidth
- End-to-end virtual machine migration.
- Transparently adapt packet sizes at wire speed to match computing, storage & wide area requirements.
- Reduce protocol latency and round trip delay effects.
- Drive more throughput with existing bandwidth.
- Enable path protection, load sharing and failover architectures.
- Optimized path selection based on latency and packet loss.
