CNT and Hibernia Atlantic team up to offer trans-Atlantic data replication

Storage communications vendor CNT and Hibernia Atlantic have announced a partnership that will provide trans-Atlantic data replication for companies that have data centers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hibernia Atlantic is the owner of a 12,200-kilometer fiber-optic submarine cable system. Their cable network will be used to link Ireland and England with Boston, New York and other locations in the U.S. and enable data replication between the sites.

Many businesses including the financial industry, have “follow-the-sun” operations that would benefit from this technology.

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Storage communications vendor CNT and Hibernia Atlantic have announced a partnership that will provide trans-Atlantic data replication for companies that have data centers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hibernia Atlantic is the owner of a 12,200-kilometer fiber-optic submarine cable system. Their cable network will be used to link Ireland and England with Boston, New York and other locations in the U.S. and enable data replication between the sites.

Many businesses including the financial industry, have “follow-the-sun” operations that would benefit from this technology.

The Hibernia Atlantic Network is configured as a self-healing ring, with end-points in Boston, Dublin, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Liverpool, England. It is built with redundant equipment to minimize downtime. It offers Dense Wave Division Multiplexing, SONET/SDH and optical switching technologies and can perform at up to 160G bit/sec over each path. The network can handle 1.9 terabits per second.

CNT and Hibernia demonstrated this week the network’s capability to transport storage-area networking block-oriented storage. The company used EMC DMX 800 storage, Microsoft Exchange e-mail supporting 2,000 users. They added a traffic simulator which generated approximately 2,000 user mailboxes and used EMC’s Symmetrix Remote Data Facility to mirror data between Dublin and Boston. CNT UltraNet Edge routers allowed the Fibre Channel to SDH protocol conversion and transfer.

A catastrophic outage was then demonstrated in Dublin. After failure Dublin users were able to access their e-mail as if it was local.

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