EMC Qualifies CNT's DWDM

MINNEAPOLIS -- CNT® (Nasdaq: CMNT -news), the global specialist in storage networking, announced today thatits product, the UltraNet Wave Multiplexer, has been qualified by EMCCorporation as E-Lab Tested(TM) for Fibre Channel storage.

CNT's DenseWave Division Product (DWDM) is qualified to support EMC's FibreChannel- and ESCON-based Symmetrix® and CLARiiON® enterprise informationstorage systems as well as EMC's data replication solutions, SRDF(TM)and MirrorView, expanding CNT's storage networking offerings availablefor optical metropolitan-area environments."By expanding our qualifications with EMC, we're offering our mutualcustomers more choices for the type of network architecture that bestmeets their business needs and investments in optical metropolitan-areanetwork applications," said Mark Knittel, VP of Worldwide ProductOperations at CNT. "The qualification of our UltraNet Wave products forFibre Channel storage is an important step in the cooperative effortsbetween our two companies. Fibre Channel storage is a major growth areaand this qualification means that we can provide the value of ouroptical networking products to both Fibre Channel and traditional ESCONenvironments."CNTEMC Corp.