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February 10, 2005
McDATA launches industry's first backbone director

NEW DELHI -- McDATA Corp., the leading provider of storage networking solutions, recently launched Intrepid i10K, the industry's first backbone director designed for the heart of the global enterprise data center (GEDC). The Intrepid i10K supports dynamic network partitioning and offers an end-to-end partitioning solution from application to array, allowing data to be independently managed, controlled, protected and moved to meet application demands. In addition, the Intrepid i10K enables secure SAN island and large fabric consolidation, significantly lowering the total cost of ownership and offering secure, carrier-class availability for the backbone of enterprise.

The Intrepid i10K enables a tiered storage networking strategy, where a customer's infrastructure is matched with his tiered storage environment allowing for cost-effective deployment of information lifecycle management strategies. A scalable environment, achieved through the Intrepid i10K, accommodates future technologies such as virtualisation and maintains simplicity of design, keeping storage networking costs low and providing an access to information from any location worldwide.

The Intrepid i10K drives 10Gbps over dark fiber and up to 190-kms in distance, enabling enterprisewide five-nines application availability. The Intrepid i10K delivers value-added routing and storage virtualization services with its upcoming director service modules. The Intrepid i10K builds on McDATA's availability heritage by delivering new software isolation and data integrity enhancements.

Gilbert Low, country manager, ASEAN and India, McDATA, said: "There are four key areas that define a backbone director -- network consolidation, dynamic network partitioning, 10Gbps intelligent network services and carrier-class availability for the enterprise. Only McDATA's Intrepid i10K delivers the complete backbone functionality required by global 500 customers. With the i10K, customers can cost-effectively implement a tiered, GEDC network -- a network that provides real-time information access to information anytime, anywhere."

Contact:
McData Corp.

Tel: +91-22-2620-8696
sandeep.karkhanis@mcdata.com
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