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EXPAND NETWORKS WINS DRIVE ASSIST AND DELIVERS SUPERIOR END USER
Jul 14, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --
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( BW)(EXPAND-NETWORKS) Expand Networks Wins Drive Assist and
Delivers Superior End User Experience at Branch Offices
WAN Optimization ensures workforce efficiency and
operational savings; RoI of one year beats competition
SLOUGH, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Jul. 14, 2009 -- Expand
Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for
branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced
that Drive Assist, the non fault accident specialists, has
deployed Expand Networks' WAN Optimization technology to
accelerate the delivery of its business applications and bring
its distributed workforce in virtual proximity of applications
and datacentre services. Expand's WAN Optimization technology
has improved user productivity and business efficiency whilst
delivering low TCO and contributing to significant reduction in
ICT expenditure.
Drive Assist specialize in providing replacement vehicles
for innocent parties following roadside accidents. The business
has grown dramatically in recent years and now boasts national
coverage via 19 regional offices. With no remote servers in
place, users at Drive Assist's remote offices were physically
separated from the applications and services they required to
do their jobs, relying on WAN links to access data from the
head office site. With increasingly large amounts of data
travelling over the WAN, latency and congestion challenges
began to compromise business efficiency.
"Bandwidth capacity became an increasing concern," explains
Simon Wilson, network manager at Drive Assist. "As staff
numbers increased so did the WAN traffic, resulting in poor
network performance. Initially we undertook a company-wide
bandwidth upgrade to overcome this. However, as the
organization continued to grow, specifically from an
administration standpoint, it became clear this was not
sufficient. We generated more and more documents and with that
came more printing, causing the WAN links to become saturated
very quickly - even after the upgrade."
Drive Assist evaluated WAN Optimisation technology from
Expand Networks and Riverbed to address the problem and
selected Expand Networks for its superior Wide Area File
Services (WAFS) capability and favorable business case. "Proven
business value is critical for any procurement we make and our
financial director sought a guaranteed pay back from the
technology within one year," comments Wilson. "Whilst
Riverbed's solution offered us pay back for our investment over
a four year period, Expand could deliver a full RoI within 11
months ? the choice was simple."
Expand Networks' integrated WAN Optimization approach uses
techniques such as byte-level caching and dynamic compression,
delivering a superior end user experience for Drive Assist by
ensuring fast and secure access to centrally located data
across its increasingly distributed WAN. The compression
capabilities of the platform quickly delivered the bandwidth
increase required whilst the acceleration techniques overcame
any latency. In addition, according to Wilson, Expand's
integrated WAFS functionality enabled employees at the branch
offices to collaborate with shared data as though they were on
the same LAN.
"Expand has given us a very stable network environment. The
performance of our applications is significantly quicker,
improving our remote users' productivity. Monitoring tells us
that usage is now so low we are set to trade the 2Mg links that
we upgraded in 2008 back down to 1Mg, which translates into yet
another significant cost saving. With Expand we are reaping the
productivity benefits of WAN Optimization at the same time as
reducing the TCO and increasing the RoI on our existing
infrastructure."
The WAN Optimization technology is also supporting all VoIP
calls at Drive Assist. With all calls recorded for security
reasons, VoIP traffic going back to the main site can suffer
from packet loss causing a jitter effect. Expand's layer 7 QoS
(Quality of Service) ensures all VoIP traffic has the protected
bandwidth it needs.
Adam Davison, VP Corporate Marketing and Sales, Expand
Networks, comments; "As users and their applications move
further apart, business performance suffers. Expand's
technology delivers a virtual proximity experience designed to
close this gap through the delivery of virtual bandwidth. Drive
Assist is a great example of how our next generation
compression and caching techniques can take limited Wide Area
Links and create 4 to 10 times the throughputs - on the exact
same infrastructure.
In today's economic conditions, sweating your assets in this
way is critical and as Drive Assist shows, our technology can
increases business productivity whilst delivering extended
returns on network investments by stretching limited resources
further."
Cohesive Communications ? EMEAJennifer Manning+44 (0) 1291
626200 expand@cohesive.uk.com KEYWORD: United Kingdom Europe
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