Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN) will provide its converged
packet optical solutions to Forsythe
Data Centers for the dual, diverse metro fiber network connecting
its new Retail+®
managed hosting facility, a high-density data center in Elk Grove
Village, Ill., to 350 East Cermak in Chicago. With Ciena, Forsythe
provides secure, low-latency connectivity, as well as access to the
various carriers its clients require. This high-capacity, wire-speed
encrypted connectivity allows Forsythe’s enterprise and other clients
the world-class performance and strong culture of security they require
in their data centers.
Key Facts:
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In May 2015, Forsythe will be opening a new client data center
location offering 350 -4,000 sq. ft. secure, client-controllable
private suites and micro-suites, as well as individual cabinets, in a
new 221,000 sq. ft. facility that will help enterprises plan, procure,
build, test, migrate, house, and manage their IT environments out of
one location.
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Forsythe is deploying Ciena’s 6500
Packet-Optical Platform equipped with FIPS certified layer 1
encryption for highly-secure end-to-end communications. With these
high-capacity connections, enterprises will gain the full benefit of
Forsythe’s data replication and transport services, which allow data
to be stored virtually. Forsythe will be offering both temporary and
dedicated connectivity options to enable customers to easily migrate
data when relocating to the new data center.
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With Ciena’s WaveLogic
3 coherent optics, Forsythe Data Centers can provide the fastest
connectivity speeds with support for up to 200 Gb/s of data
transmission per wavelength. In addition, the 6500’s high-density,
protocol-agnostic wire-speed
encryption solution provides increased protection of critical data
with minimal latency.
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Ciena is also providing Forsythe Data Centers its Specialist
Services, including turnkey implementation, project management,
and Management Services for Ciena equipment, to quickly provision
services.
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Forsythe Technology, the parent company of Forsythe Data Centers, is
also now a Ciena BizConnect
partner, and will offer Ciena solutions as part of its full portfolio
of offerings to clients, especially with regard to data migration
services.
Executive Comments:
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“As we built this new data center facility with leading-edge
technologies, we knew it was just as important to have the right
connectivity in place to provide our customers with the secure dual,
diverse fiber access and services they require. The deployment of
Ciena’s converged packet optical solutions provides us with the
low-latency, high-capacity connections to quickly provision the
services our clients need.”
- Steve Harris, Vice President of
Data Center Development, Forsythe Data Centers
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“As enterprises move more of their application infrastructure into
data centers and embrace the cloud, they look to hosting providers
like Forsythe Data Centers to virtualize those resources and deliver
the agile networking and data transmission capabilities as required.
Our 6500 Packet-Optical Platform provides Forsythe and its clients
with secure on-demand, high-bandwidth and low latency connectivity for
cloud computing, storage and data center migration.”
- Duncan
Puller, Vice President of Data Center and Cloud, Ciena
Supporting Resources:
About Forsythe
Founded in 1971, Forsythe is
one of the largest, independent IT integrators in North America, serving
approximately 1,000 U.S. and Canada-based companies. Clients come to
Forsythe for help optimizing cost, managing risk, improving performance
and enabling innovation within their IT and data center operations to
deliver greater value to their business. Forsythe’s experience crosses
all facets of the data center. Forsythe provides independent
professional services and financial solutions, as well as IT products
from all the leading IT infrastructure manufacturers and vendors, and
related services. Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent
employee-owned, with nearly 1,000 employees in 40 locations, and more
than $1 billion in annual revenues. Forsythe Data Centers, Forsythe
Hosting Solutions, Forsythe International Inc., Forsythe/McArthur
Associates Inc., Forsythe Solutions Group Inc., Forsythe Technology
Canada Inc., KillerIT, SOS Security and Synnefo Technology Solutions are
wholly owned subsidiaries or divisions of Forsythe Technology Inc.
“Retail+®” is a registered trademark of Forsythe Data Centers, Inc. in
the U.S. and/or other countries.
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is the network specialist. We collaborate with
customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks
and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. Ciena
leverages its deep expertise in packet and optical networking and
distributed software automation to deliver solutions in alignment with
its OPn architecture for next-generation networks. We enable
a high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
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