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Is a disaster recovery plan enough? Probably not. Most companies are looking to continue their operations in the event of a disruption, not merely to recover them hours, or maybe days, later. This distinction is crucial to the notion of Business Continuity: a topic, which is getting serious attention in boardrooms today.

Business continuance planning is not just about protecting against the bad things in life. Rather it's about ensuring information is always available to business processes, employees, customers, and partners alike, day or night, anywhere in the world.

Storage Networking is an integral part of making information available across the enterprise.

CNT is the global storage networking specialist and a pioneer in IP storage solutions focused on enabling critical storage applications over any network, over any distance, from 10s to 1000s of miles.

CNT works with Compaq, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, STK and many others, to provide vendor-certified, storage solutions, which utilise CNT's storage networking products, services, bandwidth provisioning and 24x7 network management service.

Storage networking can be used in support of many different mission critical storage applications and environments, such as:

CNT recognises that for effective storage networking applications, the solution must be able to span necessary distances; integrate multiple network systems, protocols and interfaces; and provide robust network management capabilities. Typically, this means negotiating contracts with multiple storage hardware, network and services suppliers, which is costly, time-consuming and difficult to manage.

CNT can offer a one-stop Managed Networking Service, designed to resolve difficult technology/infrastructure selection, remove contract complexity and solve SLA responsibility and network management issues.

In addition, CNT provides an extensive array of Storage Services, including, SAN assessments, Storage Network planning, Consulting, Integration, Support and Managed Services

Products
CNT's UltraNet products create and deliver storage applications over Wide Area Networks (WANs). They support Fibre Channel, IP and iSCSI, and all protocols that are part of a complete enterprise SAN, including Gigabit Ethernet, SCSI and ESCON. CNT connects these protocols over links such as dark fibre, lambda services, ATM, SONET/SDH, T1/E1, T3/E3 and IP.

The UltraNet Storage Director is a high-performance switching platform that interconnects storage across enterprises - regardless of distance - to enable companies to better access, share and protect their information, wherever it is located.

The UltraNet Edge Storage Router is an intelligent storage router that supports FCIP, iSCSI and FCBB (FC over ATM/SDH), to interconnect disparate storage networks and deploy enterprise-wide storage applications over new or existing IP infrastructure.

In a recent demonstration, the UltraNet Edge Storage Router was used to create the 'World's Largest SAN' across a global Ethernet intranet using FCIP to link up SANs in Europe, North America and Australia, proving that existing IP infrastructures can be utilised for cost-effective remote SAN integration and business continuity solutions.

This demonstration showed how CNT's storage networking solutions enable data assets to be replicated and managed across a unified IP network around the world.

CNT's UltraNet Edge Storage Router is the only IP Storage product with Compression, providing performance benefits of Gigabit Ethernet while leveraging existing 100 Mbps Ethernet IP Infrastructure, resulting in dramatic network costs savings.

CNT's UltraNet Wave Multiplexor (DWDM) products help optimise the use of optical fibre by multiplexing up to 256 ESCON (or 64 FC) channels over a single fibre optic pair.

CNT (NASDAQ: CMNT) was founded in 1983. It serves over 60 percent of the Fortune 100 and has more than 500 data replication installations worldwide.

For more information, visit www.cnt.com

Or contact:
Robin Pilcher, Director, European Marketing
Tel: 0044 (0)1753 792400
Email: robin_pilcher@cnt.com