MAHWAH, N.J., MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany, April 18, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- ADVA Optical Networking today announced that New York-Presbyterian Hospital has deployed the Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 3000 to support an array of high-bandwidth Ethernet and storage services. For each of the last five years, the hospital has experienced a 20% rise in bandwidth budget. ADVA's solution uses Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology to break that cycle, effectively future-proofing the hospital network for foreseeable growing bandwidth demand, while also providing immediate, annual operational savings.
"Cost avoidance and the many new high-bandwidth applications currently under consideration by the hospital played a major factor in our decision," said Aurelia Boyer, Senior Vice President (SVP)/Chief Information Officer (CIO), Information Services, New York-Presbyterian Hospital. "By making the decision now to deploy DWDM, we have removed network bandwidth as a concern for such new applications, and at the same time, we are effectively levelling future bandwidth costs at what they are today. And that's very appealing, given the steady rise in our bandwidth budget over the last five years."
"We chose ADVA's system specifically because of the simplicity, scalability, and reliability of the FSP 3000 design," said Valerie Punnett, Vice President of Information Service, New York-Presbyterian Hospital. "The system is very user-friendly and provides a capital and operational cost advantage, while providing incredible scalability and reliability for our needs. This is important in a patient care environment."
New York-Presbyterian Hospital has deployed ADVA's FSP 3000 systems at its Manhattan campus locations, including data centers and patient care facilities, and multiple spur sites have been connected in a ring and logical mesh network measuring 50 kilometers in circumference and enhanced with Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) modules. With DWDM technology, these sites are transporting up to 32 channels of native-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic without procuring additional strands of optical fiber along the network ring.
The hospital's applications include leading-edge Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), in which radiology and cardiology images are digitally stored, manipulated and shared across the sites; live telemetry data over network for physiological monitoring; system/application high availability including Fibre Channel disc mirroring, in which data is synchronously written to each of hospitals' data centers to ensure business continuity in the event of failure at one or the other of the sites; and cost-effective Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), connecting the enterprise to multiple New York City carrier Points of Presence (PoPs).
"One of the primary reasons that New York-Presbyterian is among the world's most respected hospitals is that they are always looking for ways to improve the care they provide," said Brian P. McCann, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at ADVA Optical Networking. "That the hospital has identified our FSP 3000 system as a tool in that effort is a tremendous validation of the product. We look forward to working with New York-Presbyterian Hospital in continuing to layer mission-critical, life-saving services on their FSP 3000 network."
ADVA's FSP 3000 employs parallel use of DWDM and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technology to enable all protocols between 8Mbit/s and 10Gbit/s and up to 256 applications with a total capacity of 320Gbit/s to be transported over one single fiber pair. The system's design supports point-to-point, linear add/drop, ring, and meshed network topologies of up to 10 nodes across distances up to 500 kilometers without regeneration. More information about the FSP 3000 platform and key applications can be found on ADVA's web site at www.advaoptical.com.
ABOUT NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPTIAL
New York-Presbyterian Hospital is the largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital in the country. It provides state-of-the-art inpatient, ambulatory, and preventive care in all areas of medicine at five major centers: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, the Allen Pavilion, and the Westchester Division. It consistently ranks as one of the top hospitals in the country in U.S. News & World Report's guide to "America's Best Hospitals". The New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System -- an affiliation of acute-care and community hospitals, long-term care facilities, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes -- serves one in four patients in the New York metropolitan area.
ABOUT ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE:ADV) is a leading global provider of optical and Ethernet networking solutions for rapid and cost-effective provisioning of high-speed data, storage, voice, and video services in the metropolitan area. ADVA's carrier-class Fiber Service Platform (FSP) product portfolio is explicitly designed to enhance services, simplify networks, and reduce the total cost of ownership. ADVA's solutions have been deployed at over 100 carriers and several thousand enterprises worldwide. For further information about ADVA: www.advaoptical.com.
PUBLISHED BY: ADVA Optical Networking Inc., Mahwah/New Jersey, USA ADVA AG Optical Networking, Martinsried/Munich and Meiningen, Germany ADVA Optical Networking Corp., Tokyo, Japan www.advaoptical.com FOR PRESS AND INVESTORS: ADVA Optical Networking Alexa M. Schmidt / Wolfgang Guessgen t +1 201 258 8293 (U.S.) t +49(0)89 89 0665 240 (Europe) t +81 3 5408 5891 (Asia) public-relations@advaoptical.com investor-relations@advaoptical.com New York-Presbyterian Hospital Kathleen Robinson +1 212 821 0565 krobinso@med.cornell.edu