By Rajani Baburajan TMCnet Contributor Recovery Point, a provider of backup and disaster recovery services, announced the deployment of optical transport equipment from Ekinops to provide “unparalleled private access to its recovery facilities for customer companies.”
Ekinops (News – Alert) is a fast-growing designer and supplier of next generation optical transport equipment for service providers and enterprises.
At the heart of the Recovery Point deployment is Ekinops’ flagship 360 platform. Ekinops 360 is a carrier-class optical transport solution for metro, regional, and long-haul networks.
The equipment transports Fibre Channel and 10 Gbps Ethernet traffic for Recovery Point. For operational simplicity, Recovery Point has chosen to deploy the Ekinops’ scalable ROADM (News – Alert).
Company officials say Ekinops 360 system enables service providers to differentiate themselves in applications that previously could not be accomplished with transport equipment due to cost of the equipment as compared to alternative solutions like private line.
Recovery Point leveraged the Ekinops 360 scalable ROADM and amplifier solutions to minimize upfront cost, while allowing for virtually unlimited growth. This has allowed the company to truly scale their network as they benefit from customer traction.
After the deployment of Ekinops 360 system, Recovery Point network is now live and serving customers across the United States.
With Ekinops equipment, Recovery Point is able to directly extend its fiber-optic network into “carrier hotels,” central points where all major telecommunications carriers have interconnections.
With this capability, the company gives customers a private connection to Recovery Point backup facilities and eliminates the significant expense that customers would otherwise face in trying to separately lease the high-capacity circuits they need for the volume of data they back up through Recovery Point.
Another advantage is the provision of Ekinops’ pay-as-you-grow architecture that allows these connections to be fulfilled more cost-effectively via a privately built network than via leased circuits, according to company officials.
As many of Recovery Point customers preserve their data through disc mirroring method, it is imperative they have highly reliable and always available high-capacity optical connection, Marc Langer, president of Recovery Point, said.
“Using the Ekinops equipment allows us to eliminate the ‘last mile’ challenge,” Langer said. “Our package includes that final link from the carrier hotel to our facilities, something that might otherwise cost our customers thousands of dollars a month in leased line costs.”
“What was important in the Recovery Point deployment was that the company be able to take advantage of the scalability and operational simplicity of our platform,” Rob Adams (News – Alert), vice president of Product Marketing and Product Line Management for Ekinops, said.
“We were able to offer them a solution that is extremely cost-effective and truly scales as they benefit from their investment. Our scalable economics combined with our operational simplicity positions us among the lowest overall cost of ownership in the industry.”
Last October Ekinops announced that Modern VideoFilm, California, deployed Ekinops 360 platform to build an optical network for transporting uncompressed high-definition or “HD” video, TMCnet reported. The network is used to transport video and data during the post-production process for movies and TV shows.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Patrick Barnard
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