This IBM paper is one in a series describing zSeries qualified optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) vendor products for Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) solutions. International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and Adva Optical Networking have successfully completed qualification testing of the Adva Fiber Service Platform 2000 (FSP 2000). This paper describes the applicable environments, protocols, and topologies qualified and supported by IBM eServer zSeries for connecting to the Adva FSP 2000 product hardware and software at release level 5.6.
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