FiberZone Networks, a provider of Automated Fiber Management (AFM) solutions for data centers and networks, has released new software capabilities on its AFM product line, making it an ideal solution for fiber-based managed networks.

FiberZone says that its newly released software application enables simulation of physical fiber break scenarios and the corresponding disaster recovery on networking, computing and storage platforms.

Commenting on the rationale of the release, FiberZone says that the available automation solutions do not have the ability to support new high-speed Fiber Channel (FC) or Ethernet interfaces. The solutions also require expensive upgrades.

FiberZone claims its AFM is the only solution that can support test automation at any existing or future port speed.

Test facilities operators can leverage the new Temporary Disconnect software application to accurately simulate fiber breaks and their corresponding disaster recovery scenarios.

Because FiberZone's AFM uses physical connect and disconnect, it has the ability to accurately represent real-life disaster recovery scenarios.

The AFM delivers extremely low latency on all fiber connections as no electrical processing is involved.

"FiberZone's high-density fiber switch solution is future proof; it can serve any existing and future port speeds on any type of fiber. 8Gbps FC, 10Gigabit-Ethernet, iSCSI, FCoE, 16 Gbps FC, 40GE and 100GE are all supported today on FiberZone's AFM," said Joe Teixeira, vice president of Product Management for FiberZone Networks.

"We developed the new temporary disconnect software application in response to our customers' requests, to allow them to benefit from unprecedented scalability and cost-effectiveness of their automation solutions."

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