Canoga Goes Cwazy

CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- Canoga Perkins, a worldwide leading supplier of fiber optic extension equipment, announces the unveiling one of the industry's most cost-effective Course Wave Division Multiplexers (CWDM) systems for the SAN and Metro environments. The new Canoga Perkins LightWaveXpander 6702 can increase your applications capacity by eight times without installing more fiber. It is fully ITU standards compliant and ships assembled and ready to install. The new Canoga Perkins LightWaveXpander 6702 CWDM system uses industry standard CWDM wavelengths compliant with ITU-T standards and integrates the industry first CWDM loopback function. The loopback function assists in troubleshooting of the link and provides a cost-effective way of pinpointing a problem. The CWDM's transponder complies with all SONET, SAN and Ethernet specifications with complete protocol independence. What you put in is what you get out with no encapsulating or other data affecting applications to slow down throughput. This is fastest and safest way to transport traffic. In a separate release: Canoga Perkins, a leading supplier of fiber optic extension equipment and CWDM systems, announced new application specific products to make long distance networking easy, low cost and reliable. The Canoga Perkins team has developed new ATM fiber optic extenders for OC-3c and OC-12c speeds. IADs can now hook directly into the OC-3c and OC-12c extenders and drive distances up to 50 kilometers. A new ESCON extender has been launched to extend the distance you can locate IBM equipment up to 50 kilometers. SONET systems can be transparently extended. Additionally, a new storage area network extender has also been announced to handle your SAN extension needs up to 50 kilometers away. The new products are available in four and eight channel versions. The products will begin general availability in November 2002 but demo units are ready now to show the unit's capabilities. "We have developed a new series of fiber optic extenders to fit just about every standalone application and technology," said Jack Buhn, President and CEO of Canoga Perkins. "The price point of these products will open entire new markets. These new developments are an example of our commitment to satisfy user requests." In a separate release: Canoga Perkins unveiled a new product line dubbed the LM Series. The new LM Series provides a lower cost entry point in Ethernet LAN extension while still providing management and NEBS Level 3 certification. This new LM Series product line works with the existing Universal Chassis System, which acts as a technology platform for the various application modules. The first of the LM Series is the L322, which is a managed UTP to Fiber Fast Ethernet Media Converter. It extends 100BaseT UTP segments up to 120 km over Single Mode fiber. It is a 3R device so multiple units can be linked. This is one of the longest extensions offered in the industry. The L322 is designed to be housed in the widely deployed Canoga Perkins Carrier Class Universal Chassis System and is also available as a standalone unit for desktop or wall mount installations. The L322 is an IEEE 802.3 compliant device available with a variety of Multimode and Single Mode optics options to address a complete spectrum of LAN extension applications. It is NEBS Level 3 tested and certified and provides an extremely reliable, yet cost effective solution suitable for the most stringent enterprise and military network deployments and service provider central office applications. In a separate release: Canoga Perkins is providing a valuable extra service to its users at no charge. The informative, web enabled Smart Element Manager, dubbed CanogaView, has become a standard feature for all EdgeAccess products. The network management software has begun shipping on CD with all Canoga Perkins manageable equipment. CanogaView is a powerful and useful management tool for monitoring, configuration, inventory management, remote control, power supply and fan status, error logging, reconfiguration notification, fault determination and isolation and network restoration of a Canoga Perkins fiber optic system. A Canoga Perkins equipment map is displayed in full color to visually show the status of the equipment. CanogaView is SNMP based and can operate under HP OpenView. CanogaView's web based element management system provides a graphical view of the local and, in many cases, remote equipment from a central location. CanogaView can drill down to the circuit or device level to provide detailed configuration and status information about the equipment using any web browser. It even displays LEDs in real time. "Our large users love CanogaView because of the time it saves them and the control it gives them. Now we want to get this unique package into the hands of all users so everyone can benefit from this easy to use management software," said Jack Buhn, Canoga Perkins President and CEO. In a separate release: Canoga Perkins, a leading supplier of fiber optic extension equipment and CWDM systems, knows how important homeland security is and is proud to be part of our government's defense effort. The Canoga Perkins team developed the FibreXpander to be easy to order, easy to set-up and install and easy to afford. The FibreXpander ships as a complete system, no assembly required. Just attach the included jumper cables and you can be up and running in a short time. "Running out of fiber can be a real issue with serious implications. You either need to lay more fiber, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or buy an extremely expensive and complicated DWDM system. We have developed a new way to deal with this issue of fiber exhaustion in a simple cost effective manner," said Jack Buhn, President and CEO of Canoga Perkins. "This new system is simple enough for all types of network personnel to install and operate. It ships as a complete assembled system that just bolts in right out of the box and is up and running in a very short time. It is as close to plug and play as you can get." In a separate release: Canoga Perkins has successfully tested its SAN extension using CWDM technology with a major international bank interoperating with IBM mainframe and peripheral equipment. Maximum size data blocks were transmitted over ESCON and FICON that were extended 30 Km with the Canoga Perkins equipment in a data mirroring application. The testing went very well with no data errors occurring and an ultra short latency time of only 3 nano seconds. This test site will now be converted into a live application carrying production traffic. Canoga Perkins has been accepted in the IBM TotalStorage Proven testing program and plans to document its compatibility with IBM SAN equipment through this program. In a separate release: Canoga Perkins has won an award from a major east coast broadband cable provider that serves over one million users to provide fiber optic Gigabit Ethernet LAN extension. The Gigabit Ethernet links will be extended up to 80 Km to reach outlying areas that could not otherwise be accessed. Ultra long distance runs and very high reliability were the reasons Canoga Perkins was chosen over the competition. In a separate release: Canoga Perkins, a leading supplier of fiber optic extension equipment and CWDM systems, successfully operated the new standalone Fibre Channel extension product called the 9125 to make long distance SAN networking easy and reliable. The Canoga Perkins team developed the 9125 storage area network extension product using Fibre Channel technology to handle long distance SAN extension needs up to 50 kilometers away. The 9125 Fibre Channel Xtender has a very small footprint and is offered as a standalone or rack mounted device. It is used to extend the distance of Fibre Channel applications in a cost effective manner. As with all Canoga Perkins products, speed, reliability and ease of use are the key user benefits. The television network used the 9125 to do very high speed transfers of extremely large blocks of digital video from an editing station to a remote storage device and back. This eliminates the need for a person called a "runner" to bring tapes back and forth and saves a great deal of time. In a separate release: Canoga Perkins, a leading supplier of fiber optic extension equipment and WDM systems, has verified that two of the 9120 Gigabit Ethernet Optical Xtender models, the 9120-528 (1310nm FP laser) and the 9120-628 (1310nm DFB laser) are able to transport Gigabit Ethernet over 4km error free data on Multimode Fiber. Canoga Perkins