CHATSWORTH, California,
May 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- MRV
Communications™, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVC) ("MRV®"), a provider of
innovative network solutions for data center operators, service
providers, and enterprises, introduces the OD-4-DCI, its new
optical transport platform aimed at the data center interconnect
(DCI) market. Part of MRV's OptiDriver® family of WDM metro
transport solutions, the OD-4-DCI enables modular ultra-high
density DCI in a compact 1RU form factor with stackable management
to offer higher bandwidth point-to-point connections between data
centers.
With rapidly changing bandwidth needs, flexibility is valuable.
The OptiDriver line cards that are supported by the OD-4-DCI
chassis exclusively use pluggable optics, which enables
cost-effective, pay-as-you-grow bandwidth capacity expansion for
ultimate agility. Additionally, pluggable optics ensure that data
center operators only need to invest CapEx as needed, so they can
adopt the most current optical innovations. The OD-4-DCI modular
design offers outstanding flexibility that supports the same
optical line cards as the other OptiDriver chassis from the OD-6 up
to the OD-48 models.
"With over 63% annual growth in 2016, Optical DCI
remains one of the strongest growth markets in optical networking,"
said Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst,
ACG Research. "Telecom and Webscale service providers are looking
for diverse DCI deployment options. The addition of the MRV
OD-4-DCI 1RU product to the OptiDriver family increases service
provider flexibility. The use of consistent pluggable optics
across the product family improves capital and operational
efficiencies while enabling a pay-as-you-go deployment model to
match costs with revenue and bandwidth demands."
"The OD-4 DCI meets the specific business, financial and
operating requirements of data center operators as well as those of
service providers. By designing the OD-4 DCI as an open and
flexible system that can leverage widely available and increasingly
competitively priced pluggable optics, the OD-4 DCI offers a highly
cost effective and scalable approach for our customers when
compared with other systems based on a closed or fixed design,"
commented Adam Scheer, Chief
Operating Officer for MRV. "Additionally, we have designed the
OD-4-DCI to meet data center operators' expectations for efficient
power consumption enabling our customers to realize a very low cost
of ownership for this platform."
Previously, data center operators had to elect either a smaller
chassis with fixed optical ports or a larger modular chassis that
supports pluggable optical modules. Now using the OptiDriver, data
center operators and service providers no longer have this
limitation. With MRV's solution, operators can use the same
pluggable modules across the entire OptiDriver product family and
realize maximum flexibility to deploy bandwidth when and where
needed, with less concern for platform limitations or rack space.
All OptiDriver components can be managed with MRV's Pro-Vision®
Life Cycle Service Orchestration (LSO) service management and
orchestration software platform.
About MRV Communications
MRV Communications (NASDAQ: MRVC) enables service providers,
data center operators and enterprises to make their networks
smarter, faster, and easier to operate. MRV's end-to-end
portfolio includes innovative packet, optical, and software
platforms designed for flexibility and reliability. To learn
more about MRV, visit www.mrv.com and follow us on Twitter
@MRVC.
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