Our market-first FSP 3000 S-Flex™ is a highly versatile DWDM muxponder able to support 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel services. It boosts total transport capacity to 400Gbit/s, simplifies operations and streamlines inventories. S-Flex™ caters to enterprises’ diverse needs by seamlessly supporting a comprehensive range of DCI and SAN protocols and speeds. With a highly secure variant safeguarded by Adva Network Security’s ConnectGuard™ encryption, it also offers robust data protection, even in the face of quantum computer attacks.

1. Transforming DCI connectivity
with the FSP 3000 S-FlexTM
June 2023
Market’s first 64G Fibre Channel transport for uncompromised
business continuity

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LESSONS LEARNT FROM OUR ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS
What does your data center interconnect (DCI) need?
• More capacity, higher speeds, longer
reach
• Robust, quantum-safe security
• Unrestricted combination of storage,
server and mainframe technologies
• Ease of integration with standardized,
certified interfaces for data and control
Enterprises require:

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Technical requirements for seamless DCI/SAN evolution
Active
data center
Stand-by
data center
SAN
(Fibre Channel)
Server
(IP/Ethernet)
Mainframe
(Ethernet, CE
LR, RoCE)
DWDM
mux/demux
1 From 16G to 64G Fibre Channel
2 Multi-protocol
3
4
Quantum-safe encryption
400Gbit/s wavelengths
DWDM
mux/demux
1
3 4
2

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PIONEERING SOLUTION FOR SECURE AND SCALABLE DATA CENTER INTERCON NECT
No need for compromise with the FSP 3000 S-FlexTM
Innovation
Scalability
Flexibility
Data
security
Market’s first DWDM solution for the transport
of 64G Fibre Channel services over distance
400G pluggable coherent interface, combining
flexibility with speed
For 16G to 64G Fibre Channel, multi-rate
Ethernet and IBM mainframe services
Built-in ConnectGuard™ quantum-safe
encryption technology with crypto-agility
FSP 3000
S-Flex™

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S-FLEX SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATES WITH ENTIRE SAN FABRIC
SAN-specific capabilities
Fabric control
Fabric monitoring
Set of advanced functions to precisely control
latency of Fibre Channel services
Latency
control
FC trunking
Non-intrusive monitoring tools for fast failure
isolation and simplified troubleshooting
Service
identification
Performance statistics
Port
fencing
Trunk group with 64G FC links
8 x 64GFC

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FUTURE-PROOF AND QUANTUM -RESILIENT SOLUTION
Adva Network Security provides highest level of data
protection
• Flexible FPGA-based design
enables faster innovation within
the same hardware
• New algorithms
• Certifications
Crypto-agility
• Standardized interface to
integrate with external key
sources
• Adds another layer of quantum
security
QKD
Session
key
Session
key
Key exchange
Quantum
channel
• New cryptographic algorithms,
evaluated as quantum-resilient
• No reach limitation
PQC
Session
key
Session
key
Key exchange
Quantum-safe
key exchange
protocol

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HIGHLY SECURE, RESILIENT AND SCALABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Wide range of applications
Large enterprise SAN DCI with FC up to 64G, IBM
GDPS and Ethernet multi-rate services
Mission-critical infrastructure for sectors such as financial
services, government institutions and public health
Hyper-scale data center interconnect featuring
line-rate, quantum-safe encryption

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Versatile
• For any DCI protocol: Fibre Channel, mainframe IBM and Ethernet
• Supporting a wide range of speeds, multiplexed into a common line interface
FSP 3000 S-Flex™ for multi-protocol SAN and DCI
Future-proof
• Flexible coherent pluggable interface enabling up to 400Gbit/s per wavelength
• Open design for integration in multi-vendor, SDN-based environments
Market’s first muxponder for secure transport of 64G Fibre Channel
Secure
• Built-in, quantum safe ConnectGuard™ encryption technology
• Hybrid key exchange combining traditional key exchange with PQC and QKD

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Take aways
With S-Flex™, FSP 3000 technology remains at the forefront of innovation
• FSP 3000 S-Flex™ comes with a unique
feature set of 64G Fibre Channel and
encrypted 400G network interface
• Multi-rate and multi-service interfaces in
combination with quantum-safe security
provide agility and long-term security
• As part of Adtran FSP 3000 platform,
S-Flex™ leverages the comprehensive
resilience, security and operational
features of a well-established DWDM
solution

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