Fibre Channel over CWDM Products
Data Center Fibre Channel CWDM Interconnect
Fibre Channel over CWDM Products
iConverter® CWDM Multiplexers
iConverter CWDM Multiplexers are part of the iConverter Multi-Service Platform and used to expand the capacity of Fibre Channel data center interconnects. iConverter CWDM MUX/DEMUX modules and Optical Add and Drop modules can be installed in a variety of compact and high-density chassis.
iConverter xFF Transponders
iConverter xFF Transponders are protocol-transparent fiber-to-fiber media converters, and are available as compact, unmanaged standalone units or managed chassis plug-in modules. The iConverter xFF provides reliable and cost-effective conversion between different Fibre Channel wavelengths using Omnitron’s CWDM SFP Transceivers.
Data Center Fibre Channel CWDM Interconnect
Data centers often have a cluster of Storage Area Networks (SAN) servers and storage discs connected using Fibre Channel. Data centers require high speed connectivity to offsite SANs for transaction storage and database mirroring. To provide redundancy and disaster recovery, SAN from one data center can be extended to a SAN in another Data Center. This allows each data center to have a mirror copy of its database at each location.
In this application a, iConverter xFF transponders and CWDM/X Multiplexers are deployed to connect a Fibre Channel switch in data center 1 to Fibre Channel switch in data center 2. With this connectivity, the SAN servers in each data center are able to communicate with each other.
Fibre Channel CWDM SFP transceivers
To overcome the high cost of proprietary Fibre Channel CWDM SFP transceivers, xFF transponders are used to convert the standard 850 or 1310 wavelengths to CWDM wavelengths, providing a more economical solution over proprietary SFPs.
Fiber patch cables connect the xFF transponders installed in a high-density 19-Module Chassis to ports on each Fibre Channel switch. Four xFF transponders convert the fiber from standard wavelengths to CWDM wavelengths (channels) with Small Form Pluggable (SFP) transceivers. The CWDM SFPs support specific wavelengths to enabling connectivity to the corresponding channel ports on the iConverter CWDM/X multiplexer with fiber patch cables (shown in different colors to represent the CWDM wavelengths). The CWDM/X multiplexes the wavelengths that transport the four Fibre Channels over the CWDM Common Fiber Line.
