Huawei’s OptiX DWDM Completes Interoperable Testing With IBM GDPS/STP System

Huawei Technologies, a China-based provider of telecommunications network solutions, has announced that its OptiX DWDM products suite has completed interoperability testing and qualification for IBM GDPS and STP system environments.

According to Huawei, its OptiX products are now certified to extend the reach of data centers running GDPS (geographically dispersed parallel sysplex)/STP (server time protocol), applications by up to 200km with IBM System z mainframes1. In short, Huawei products are now certified for client use in GDPS environments to ‘split’ transaction workloads across different sites or strategically plan a cascaded disaster recovery process to avoid business disruption. GDPS is an advanced computing environment that provides a set of disaster recovery and continuous availability solutions ideal for complex multi-site networks.

The Huawei OptiX DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer) series supports both traditional ETR (external time reference) CLO (control link oscillator) and the latest STP systems, reducing the number of wavelengths required and extending the transmission distance.

Christian Chua, president of Huawei’s transport network product line, said: “Large enterprises have to be able to provide seamless services to their customers around the clock. The qualification from IBM demonstrates OptiX DWDM products are able to meet the highest requirements of mission critical applications across the longest data replication distance in the industry.”