With the CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator, Ciena overcomes the inherent distance limitation of Fibre Channel - the chief obstacle to connecting Storage Area Networks (SANs) that are more than 10 km apart. Now carriers can extend Fibre Channel up to thousands of kilometers at its native gigabit throughput to internetwork SANs over the wide area while avoiding the performance and functionality tradeoffs required by other solutions.