MRV Communications Wins Top Solution Award At GTC Southwest
Chatsworth, CA - MRV Communications, Inc., a leading provider of products and services for WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet, fiber optic components, 10GE, out-of-band networking and other optical networking products, recently announced the network it provided to the Mesquite Independent School District (MISD) has won The Best Solutions Award at the GTC Southwest expo.
The Best Solutions Showcase is a component of Government Technology's GTC expos featuring successful solutions implemented in government organizations. The Mesquite school district's implementation of an OptiSwitch solution garnered recognition as a best solution in the Southwestern Region (Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico or Louisiana). The program was open to all GTC Southwest exhibitors, with winners being recognized at the show in Austin, TX, January 28-31.
The Mesquite Independent School District of Mesquite, Texas, serves more than 33,000 students and employees each day through its 53 facilities—31 elementary schools, nine support facilities, eight middle schools, and five high schools. When faced with the choice of continuing to pay service providers or installing its own fiber and network equipment, the MISD decided to move from multiple leased data circuits to its own Gigabit Ethernet network in order to meet growing bandwidth demands. The district chose MRV's OptiSwitch 304 optical termination unit as a key element of its network design.
"The flexibility of this solution enables it to perform all the functionality of either CWDM or DWDM but on either a single fiber or a pair, letting customers tailor a solution that most closely fits their exact district, campus or enterprise network needs," said Noam Lotan, president and CEO of MRV Communications. "The network visibility offered by the digital diagnostics built into the OptiSwitch product line was the key component in allowing the school district to implement its own private fiber network—a necessary step in its continuing battle to maintain enough bandwidth to match its growth rate."
MISD's collaborative network implementation effort included local engineering and network consultant Cactus Computer, Inc., value-added reseller Mercury Networks and MRV. The OptiSwitch-based network consists of a 144-strand fiber ring delivering redundant one Gigabit Ethernet service to each campus. The MISD monitors the network through another MRV product, MegaVision Pro, a full-featured, SNMP-based management application that reduces operational cost and complexity.
About OptiSwitch
The OptiSwitch family consists of five enterprise-class chassis and two telco-optimized chassis that can host more than 90 types of modules for a wide range of networking applications. The OptiSwitch family's unique modular architecture offers a wire-speed, non-blocking switching solution designed for fiber-optic interfaces, VDSL connectivity, optical wireless links and TDM voice over Ethernet. The systems are ideal for large enterprises and carriers (broadband service providers) that offer communications services and are looking for fast ROI and a scaleable solution design. OptiSwitch solutions provide flexible options that enable building layer-two transport networks that maintain the security, QoS and traffic policing rules implemented at the higher layers.
SOURCE: MRV Communications, Inc.