June 13, 2006 Chatsworth, CA -- Three of MRV Communications' products have been accepted for evaluation by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). JITC is chartered with certifying interoperability for all networking products to be used by agencies that make up the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
JITC will evaluate MRV's LambdaDriver scalable WDM system; Fiber Driver systems for services demarcation, WDM, and media conversion; and its LX Series console servers, which deliver out-of-band networking, redundancy, and security features.
"The drive to earn JITC certification underscores our commitment to providing scalable, secure high-speed networking solutions for critical government operations such as defense," contends Noam Lotan, president and CEO of MRV. "Formal assessment of MRV's robust products, which include many fault-tolerance features and the first-ever support of FIPS 140-2 in a console server will enable a highly interoperable, secure and feature-rich solution for DOD agencies."
The LambdaDriver optical transport solutions consists of multi-functional, compact, and modular WDM systems that can create up to 80 independent virtual fiber-optic links over a single pair of fibers over distances of up to 900 km, say MRV representatives. The LambdaDriver family supports both DWDM and CWDM technology and can handle data streams with rates from 8 Mbits/sec up to 10 Gbits/sec. The LambdaDriver systems are specifically designed for organizations that require flexible, compact, and cost-effective multiplexing and transport of high-speed network, storage, voice, and video data.
MRV's Fiber Driver optical multi-service product line includes services demarcation, media conversion, signal repeating, and fiber-optimization, including coarse and dense WDM capabilities. Both managed and unmanaged solutions are available, including rack-mount, modular systems and desktop systems. The Fiber Driver line includes several families of products with the flexibility of hundreds of combinations and system options for any type of optical or copper technology, covering virtually every protocol in use in networking today, claims the company.
The LX Series of console servers provides redundancy and security features necessary for out-of-band networking needs. The LX Series servers are FIPS 140-2 compliant and are available in eight-, 16-, 32- and 48-port models. They provide secure out-of-band device configuration and management capabilities for mission critical networks and "lights out" management of networking and computing equipment in remote installations.