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Government Prospective Government Partners for US & Canada Please look through our Government Select Partners program; discounts are available if you qualify and sign up. Civilian: Local, State and Federal By taking advantage of modern high-speed networking technology, Government agencies of all shapes and sizes can dramatically expand their services, and reduce the cost of providing these services to their constituents. With more and more information to process and an increasingly connected population, the public sector must respond by improving inter-agency coordination and data processing. Additionally, to save taxpayer dollars, it is always important to work to improve the efficiency of operations. A high-speed data network can dramatically enhance and improve the services offered as the same time as reducing the cost to provide these services. For example, implementing Computer-Based Training reduces the costs required to keep the personnel updated on new regulations and policies. MRV provides solutions for government offices ranging from a few desktop stations to huge campuses with thousands of workers. The OptiSwitch™ line of Ethernet and IP switches and routers handles all ranges of Ethernet and IP connectivity with a modular and cost-effective solution. This scalability is key to allowing small pilot projects of network build outs to be accomplished quickly and cost-effectively. As the needs increase, the OptiSwitch family scales with the network to provide up to hundreds of Gigabit Ethernet ports with wire-speed IP routing. The government, by its very nature, presides in many cases over very sensitive information, and privacy and security are ongoing concerns. Together with 802.1q VLANs, MRV’s Ethernet Circuit technology addresses these issues by providing a full security and bandwidth control solution. Users, both external and internal, cannot access prohibited parts of the network, delivering the utmost security and privacy for this sensitive data. With the bandwidth control feature of the OptiSwitch™, scarce resources, such as Internet connections and shared servers can be protected from congestion by reserving bandwidth for high-priority applications. Since government services are often critical, the network must be fully reliable and resilient. MRV products provide a robust solution with many fault-tolerance features, such as fiber-optic redundancy and hot-swappable line-interface cards. The OptiSwitch™ family also provides fail-over redundancy protocols, such as Rapid Spanning Tree for added network survivability. Military & Intelligence Communities The Military and Intelligence Communities pioneered the concept of internetworking. It was DARPA and the NSF that first created the Internet, and these and other agencies continue to advance the technology. Now, the armed forces, Homeland Security, and all National Defense organizations must upgrade their networks to handle the increase in inter-communications, and to support newer applications, such as widespread videoconferencing. The bandwidth requirements on these networks continue to grow dramatically, and modern technology is required to create high-performance, cost effective solutions, all the while maintaining the highest levels of security. For campus networks, MRV provides a wide range of solutions with the FiberDriver™ line of fiber-optic products. Many buildings can be easily interconnected with various protocols, including Ethernet and IP, SONET and ATM, and Storage Protocols (FiberChannel, FICON and ESCON). The FiberDriver products allow networks to be created even in large, spread-out Army bases, where buildings may be many dozens of kilometers apart. With Wave-Division Multiplexing products, the bandwidth carried over the fiber-optic infrastructure can be dramatically increased, by simply using several wavelengths to carry Gigabit Ethernet or any other protocol between the buildings. For the data network, MRV offers a wide-range of solutions through the OptiSwitch™ product line. This solution includes small, modular switches for offices, and scales to hundreds of Gigabits of wire-speed IP routing, covering everything in-between as well. Along with traditional IEEE 802.1q VLANs, the OptiSwitch™ also provides the unique Ethernet Circuit technology, which allows direct control over network traffic based on packet-parameters, and enables a fully configurable, extremely powerful, wire speed security system where no one has access to unauthorized parts of the networks. To further enhance the security, MRV offers fiber-to-the-desktop support, with a cost-effective, high-density solution for 100Mbps Ethernet over multimode or single-mode fiber. Fiber-optic cabling makes wire-tapping virtually impossible, and so provides the maximal security for information transfer. MRV’s products also offer a fully redundant solution with many options for fault-tolerance. The FiberDriver™ product line includes capabilities for cable-level redundancy, with backup fiber-optic options. The OptiSwitch™ product line supports hot-swappable interfaces, and all reliability protocols, including Rapid Spanning Tree, RIP, OSFP, and BGP-4. In large campus environments, the network management process can be complicated and cumbersome. With MRV’s MegaVision Web™ Network Management System, together with the In-Reach™ and LX Remote Presence Management solutions, this task 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. 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 find out more about MRV solutions for the public sector and military organizations, contact your MRV sales representative, at sales@mrv.com. |
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