Like many organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers noticed an ever-increasing volume of traffic on its frame relay network, which connects 42 field offices in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. “We had to find a way to continue to provide our users with adequate response time without dramatically increasing our telecommunications costs,” said Al Canfield, network administrator at the government agency. To solve the problem, the agency turned to a wide area network (WAN) optimization system from Peribit Networks.
Squeezing More Room from WAN Bandwidth
Posted by: Paul Korzeniowski October 7, 2004 05:00 AMLike many organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers noticed an ever-increasing volume of traffic on its frame relay network, which connects 42 field offices in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. “We had to find a way to continue to provide our users with adequate response time without dramatically increasing our telecommunications costs,” said Al Canfield, network administrator at the government agency. To solve the problem, the agency turned to a wide area network (WAN) optimization system from Peribit Networks.