Qualcomm and Teleepoch Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October 6, 2007

MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6, 2007

Brazilian government to publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007

KTF 3G service suffers from technical problems, October 6, 2007

Argentina’s Personal lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007

Russia has it's first 3G network, October 6, 2007

AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007

Enea Extends License Agreement with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007

LG to unveil premium handsets in Brazil, October 2, 2007

KTF 3G subscribers doubled in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007

3G policy in India will be non-uniform, October 2, 2007

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PTC supports growing 3G and GSM services with advanced SAN solutions

January 30, 2006

Brocade Communications Systems announced that Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC), a provider of GSM and 3G services in Poland, is using a Brocade Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure based on SilkWorm Directors and Multiprotocol Routers to better manage its rapidly growing data volumes.

Using 2 and 4 Gbit/sec Brocade technology, PTC doubled the performance of its legacy 1 and 2 Gbit/sec SAN, achieving the high availability and investment protection the carrier requires for its key GSM and 3G services. In addition to higher data transfer rates, faster response times, and greater business efficiency, the Brocade solution reduces PTC's backup times, accelerates Inter-Switch Link (ISL) connections, and safely isolates SAN resources dedicated to external users of its PTC portal.

During its phased rollout of the Brocade solution, PTC deployed a dual-fabric SAN distributed across two locations connected by dark fibre. By standardising on Brocade SilkWorm directors and Multiprotocol Routers, the organisation now has sufficient Fibre Channel ports to support the increasing amount of data that the 3G market will generate in the coming years.

"Given our soaring storage needs and projections, we wanted an industry-leading solution to upgrade our SAN," said Mariusz Bialas, Servers and Systems Section Manager in the Department of Capacity Management and Technology Deployment at PTC. "With our new SilkWorm directors and Multiprotocol Routers from Brocade, we have a proven infrastructure in place and we are enjoying much higher levels of scalability, reliability, and performance while maintaining the flexibility of our SAN management."