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Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have grown from providing banks of modems
and a connection to the Internet for a few users at a time to full service
web hosting data centers and content providers connecting millions of customers
to the World Wide Web. Most ISPs still use modem-banks, at least as
a fallback or for traveling customers, but many are now connected to carriers
and the Internet via large OC-12 or Gigabit Ethernet links. Medium
and large ISPs have many points-of-presence (POPs) in a regional area, and
some have their own private backbone transport network. ISPs now face
the challenge of managing these large data center networks, and controlling
the access bandwidth of their customers.
MRV provides a full solution for the network infrastructure of ISPs.
For data center switching, the OptiSwitch™ family provides a scalable, cost-effective method of interconnecting
large numbers of servers at wire speed. The OptiSwitch™ routers, together
with core IP routing products from MRV’s Charlotte’s
Networks subsidiary, also provide from hundreds of Megabits to hundreds
of Gigabits of wire-speed IP routing capability, so an ISP of any size can
stay with MRV products throughout their life cycle, from a local provider
to an international conglomerate. The OptiSwitch™ Ethernet
Circuit technology also provides complete control over the customer bandwidth
usage, and provides full intrusion detection and security capabilities, preventing
attacks and resource stealing from unauthorized customers. MRV’s products
fully support all the necessary IP routing protocols to hand off data traffic
to other ISPs, including MPLS and BGP-4. Packet-over-SONET interfaces
are also available in case the carrier connects with SONET instead of Ethernet
technology.
In large data center networks, the server management process can be complicated
and cumbersome. For this reason, MRV provides the In-Reach™
and LX Remote Presence Management solutions. Using In-Reach, the task
of managing huge numbers of servers is centralized and simplified.
Remote Presence
technology allows the administrator to securely access any part of the network
either in-band (through the network itself) or out-of-band (through the telephony
network) for management purposes. The In-Reach and LX Secure Console
Servers allow large numbers of ‘headless’ servers (servers without monitors)
to be managed through serial communications from a central point. MRV’s
solution even includes the ability to manage the power connections of remote
servers, so that an administrator can force a crashed server to power-cycle
without ever leaving the office.
To tie all of these tools together, MRV provides the MegaVision
Web™ Network Management System. MegaVision fully manages all of
MRV and 3rd party products, and allows simple configuration and event monitoring
with a web based GUI. MegaVision can easily be used to view server
and network availability from a central point, and to collect alarms and
faults from In-Reach and LX equipment managing the data center.
To find out more about MRV solutions for Internet Service Providers, contact
your MRV sales representative, at sales@mrv.com.
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