A project to consolidate servers in a central data centre highlighted the need for international law firm Reed Smith to use traffic-shaping technology to ensure that its most important applications perform well on its now-critical WAN.
So far Reed Smith has used Packeteer PacketShapers to prioritise key flows, limit or block unnecessary traffic and adjust the size of its WAN links to make the network as cost-effective as possible, says Frank Hervert, senior manager of network and messaging services for the firm.
He doesn't have a quantified return on investment, but the Packeteer appliances enable him to cost-justify increases or decreases in bandwidth, so the firm doesn't pay for bandwidth it doesn't use. "Over a six-month term that will easily save me money beyond the cost of the PacketShaper," he says.
The equipment also provides monitoring and records that enable Reed Smith to double-check carrier services and ensure that service providers meet service-level......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 938
Approximate Pages: 4 (260 words per double-spaced page) |