EZX-Gateway Solves Carrier's End-of-Month Problem

What do you do if you are a major wireless carrier with 2.6 TB of month-end subscriber call records to transfer from your NonStop systems to an IBM MVS back-office system, but only a 2 hour window to do it? And you need full automation, assurance of delivery integrity, fault tolerance, as well as expandability for future growth? This was the problem posed to ETI-NET by HP, on behalf of some customers. Fortunately all the pieces required to build a solution were already at hand:

• ETI-NET BackBox virtual tape infrastructure

• Fibre Channel capabilities of NonStop Integrity systems

• HP DataExchange product for IBM 3390 disk access and sharing    

• HP StorageWorks XP disk arrays

• ETI-NET BCOM agents for job submission and file locking 

 The result was ETI-NET’s new product: EZX-Gateway.

 

EZX-Gateway was installed at the customer’s site in August 2005 and underwent a thorough shakedown by HP and system integrator personnel. The product delivers over 360 MB/sec sustained transfer rate, even if one of the EZX Controllers or fibre channel links involved failed. With complete automation, dynamic rerouting around failed paths and job restarts and with file delivery integrity assurance: the problem is solved!

 

EZX-Gateway is available for NonStop Integrity and S-Series, using Fibre Channel or SCSI interfaces and connecting to IBM MVS systems via shared SAN disk volumes. Write rates are even faster than to NSK direct-attached disks or JBOD. It features fault tolerance, true linear expandability and job management from either NSK or MVS.

 

Stay tuned for support of other target platforms besides MVS…

 

For more information, please contact ETI-NET at information@etinet.com.