CoreVault Backups
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Customer
PROFILE
Customer
CoreVault
Industry
Technology Services Provider
Application
Cloud-based Data Center
Highlights
Deployed Force10
Traverse switches
implementing both
BLSR and UPSR SONET
network rings
CoreVault is a cloud-based storage, backup,
and data recovery service based in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. With customers in 34 states,
CoreVault is recommended by more than
25 professional associations representing more
than 500,000 business, legal, and healthcare
professionals as a reliable provider of data
backup and recovery services via the Internet.
CoreVault maintains two private data centers
more than 120 miles apart in western
Oklahoma. A subsidiary of Dobson
Technologies, CoreVault is affiliated with
Dobson Telephone, which has provided
telecom services in Oklahoma for 75 years.
Since its inception, CoreVault has relied on
a state-of-the-art OC-192 network backbone
powered by Force10 Traverse Multiservice
Transport Switches. Traverse products provide
a low-latency, low-jitter network with five nines
reliability to service critical backup needs for
hundreds of companies.
Upgrading the Network Backbone
The Traverse-based backbone was in place
before CoreVault was founded in 2005.
Dobson Technologies upgraded to Traverse
switches in 2003 to gain bandwidth and
flexibility in its OC-192 network.
“The network backbone is the very foundation of CoreVault’s transport needs and the
transport needs of our customers,” says
Raymond Castor, Senior Vice President of
IT for CoreVault.
When it began deploying Traverse switches,
says Castor, “We needed additional bandwidth to keep pace with a very strong and
growing customer base. We also had a desire
to expand our network, and we chose to
upgrade aging technology with more current
equipment.”
When building out its network upgrade in
2003, Dobson chose Traverse 1600 switches
because they bring new levels of versatility,
reliability and performance to multiservice
transport networks. Traverse switches enable
carriers and other service providers to
increase bandwidth capacity, packet-optimize
their transport networks, and deliver new
Ethernet/IP-based services more rapidly
and efficiently.
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CoreVault Backups
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Customer
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“We liked the flexibility and scalability of the
product line, along with the ability to do both
BLSR and UPSR SONET network rings,” says
Castor. “We had a need for both to make our
network what we wanted it to be, and Traverse
was the product that seemed to best suit our
needs while giving us the most features and
robustness.”
“As we move into
more cloud-based
services, there will
be more opportunities
for companies like
Force10 to facilitate
24/7 services on the
back end that have
to be up and running
with no downtime.”
Raymond Castor
Senior Vice President of IT
CoreVault.
With Traverse solutions in place, the Dobson
affiliates have gained solid performance, flexibility and scalability in their network backbone.
The network is engineered to provide low jitter,
low latency, and full protection switching to
ensure greater than five nines reliability even
if a node goes down.
CoreVault Rides on Traverse
In 2003, Dobson was looking for a solution to
its own backup issues. “We didn’t have a good
off-site data recovery solution and were running
up against backup windows at night,” says
Castor. “CoreVault came about as a way to
facilitate backup and remote recovery, and as
we got into it, we decided to offer the service
to others.”
Traverse switches provide not only reliability
and performance for CoreVault’s data, but
flexible connection capabilities that optimize
bandwidth usage. Adding CoreVault to the
network has increased overall bandwidth
requirements by some 40 percent, but the
Traverse switches have provided a strong backbone for enabling highly reliable, cloud-based
storage under these higher traffic conditions.
Force10 Networks Traverse 1600 Switch
“When people experience data loss and need
to do restorations and we start to put pressure
on our backbone, we need to have world-class
partners in place that can help us deliver
world-class service. As we move into more
cloud-based services such as hosting services,
private clouds, and even hybrid clouds, there
will be more opportunities for the company,
but also more dependence on companies
like Force10 to facilitate 24/7 services on the
back end that have to be up and running
with no downtime.”
“We can’t afford to be down, not in the world
we live in, and not in the services we provide,
especially when you’re dealing with businesses’
data – their most valuable asset,” says Castor.
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