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ADVA Optical Networking has announced that its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 2000 system has successfully completed interoperability and certification testing with HP's S86000 and S76000 servers as part of the high-end ‘HP Metroclusters for NonStop servers’ solution. HP conducted the testing at its NonStop Enterprise Division test lab in Cupertino, California. This certification now enables Fortune 100 companies deploying an HP Metroclusters for NonStop servers solution in a single location to achieve greater risk diversification and security by extending the distance between multiple servers by up to fifteen kilometres using ADVA's FSP 2000 optical networking platform. The HP Metroclusters for NonStop servers solution is a high-performance server-to-server interconnect, which enables up to 1024 processors to perform as if they were all within a single 16-processor system. NonStop's guaranteed delivery message system and ServerNet's low latency and low overhead make the HP Metroclusters for NonStop servers the highest performing connection for this distance. ADVA's FSP 2000 system relies on Coarse and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM and DWDM) technology to minimise the capital and ongoing operating expenditures while simultaneously maximising the capacity, speed, and security of transporting mission-critical applications over fibre optic networks. The ADVA IT continuity solution with HP creates entirely new, advanced options for securing an enterprise's mission-critical data, enabling continuous application availability during situations of extreme disaster. "HP's efforts to extensively test and integrate storage networking hardware and software products have made it a market leader in high-end clustering and data replication solutions. ADVA's FSP systems, designed and optimised specifically for the metro area, deliver a flexibility, scalability, and robustness that now considerably expand the opportunities for comprehensive storage and clustering solutions for HP's NonStop servers. We value this new relationship with HP and are extending collaboration efforts beyond high-end clustering applications to include data replication, 'nomadic' disk extension, and other storage networking solutions for enterprise business continuity," noted Brian McCann, ADVA's chief marketing & strategy officer. "The benefits of business continuity are extensive: protecting an enterprise's mission-critical data and applications from potential disasters, meeting new legislation requirements, optimising network investments, and minimising capital and operating expenditures," said Chris Rooke, vice president of Solutions and Marketing, NonStop Enterprise Division, HP. "ADVA's FSP optical networking systems provide the critical high-speed connectivity, low latency, and bandwidth cost savings needed to optimise an HP Metroclusters for NonStop servers solution - all at an entry price point and total cost of ownership ratio that provide a strong and highly compelling value proposition to the enterprise customer."