Darlington Building Society has accelerated the
performance of its business applications by as much as 2,000%
byoptimising a Wan set-up.
The building society has used Expand Networks' Compass platform
to overcome
application performance issues over Darlington's Wan.
Darlington Building Society has 13 branches across County
Durham, the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire, and had made a
significant investment in a new
multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)-based network to provide
more control over resources.
However, the
migration to MPLS did not run as smoothly as expected, as
specific financial and mortgage applications such as Tietoenator's
Summit and Activate and other applications, including Microsoft
Excel and Word, underperformed in the new MPLS environment.
Darlington Building Society selected the Expand Compass platform
for its ability to accelerate all applications and safeguard the
investment in MPLS.
"With the introduction of the MPLS network, we discovered that
applications were running slower than with our previous 256kbps
kilostream links and business efficiency was being affected," said
Paul Gillson, computer development manager at Darlington Building
Society.
"Expand has allowed us to protect our investment in MPLS and
control the network more effectively," said Gillson. "The Expand
Compass platform has helped us to cope with network demands and
conduct our business more professionally."