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McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading provider of
data access solutions, announced today new standardized services
bundles, designed to give customers easier access to McDATA’s
IP Network Assessment services. Customers can more easily order IP
network assessments either directly from McDATA or through McDATA OEM
and channel partners.
“Our customers rely heavily on their networks
to conduct business,” said Rob Beyer, senior
vice president, Customer Support Services, McDATA. “Now
even more customers can benefit from broader access to our IP assessment
services to gain better network utilization, and ensure they have the
right sized networks for their needs and that there are no
performance-impacting issues within the IP network.”
McDATA’s IP Network Assessment Services test
the health of the IP network by measuring latency and “jitter,”
data integrity, packet loss and out-of-sequence packets. If problems are
identified, McDATA’s network engineers assist
the customer to improve network performance.
During a recent IP Network Assessment for a mid-sized financial
institution, McDATA engineers determined that while packet loss was
acceptable in one direction of data travel, there was an unacceptable
eight-percent packet loss in the opposite direction of travel. As a
result, data traveling in the weaker path moved at only 50 Mbps-to-100
Mbps in spite of the 180 Mbps circuit it the company was using. After
incorporating McDATA’s recommendations for
remediation, tests showed the IP network to be in good health, running
faster than expected with virtually no packet loss in either direction.
McDATA’s IP Network Assessment Services
integrate testing and analysis functions into a self-contained testing
chassis. McDATA network engineers test all network hardware that
pertains to the IP channel extension network including routers,
switches, security appliances and – Channel
Service Unit/Data Service Units. Following the testing, a detailed
summary report is provided for each IP circuit tested.
McDATA’s IP Network Assessment service
bundles will be available from McDATA beginning this month and from
select McDATA channels thereafter.
About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)
McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of data
access solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize
and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN
environments. With nearly 25 years' experience developing SAN products,
services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's
largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked
data.
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ and vary materially
from expectations include, but are not limited to, McDATA’s
relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems and the level of
their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP
switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our new products - such as the
Intrepid 10000 Director, integration of CNT’s
sales and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints, constraints in
obtaining third party product for resale and other risk factors that are
disclosed in McDATA’s filings with the
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