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whitepaper Southern Illinois Healthcare Relies on FirePass SSL VPN for Easy-to-Use Remote Access While Meeting Strict Regulatory and Security Compliance2008-04-03 F5 Networks
  SIH needed to provide secure remote access to employees, physicians, and technology vendors. Employees needed to work from home or while traveling on business. IT staff required the ability to provide emergency support or assistance outside of normal business hours. SIH required a manageable VPN solution with extremely fast implementation, high scalability, robust security, and lower total cost of ownership than traditional IPSec VPN solutions for the majority of their user-to-site connections. The FirePass product was ultimately selected over competing products they evaluated on the basis of merits implementing FirePass SSL VPN.

Tags: VPNs, SSL - TLS		   
whitepaper Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service Choose FirePass SSL VPN to Reduce Operational Costs and Improve Connectivity2008-04-03 F5 Networks
  Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service's (Bucks Fire) control room has handled an estimated 600,000 calls and currently receives an average of more than 400 a week. Fire Control deploys the service's 554 firefighters and 42 specialist fire and rescue vehicles to a variety of emergency incidents - mainly fires and road accidents - in response to 999 calls. Buckinghamshire deployed FirePass which provides a secure SSL based remote connection and only requires clients with a web browser and internet connectivity. The system automatically checks the integrity of the user device and authenticates the user before allowing access to end-to-end SSL encrypted data. After the user disconnects, FirePass cleans up any confidential information left on the client device.

Tags: SSL - TLS		   
whitepaper IPC Keeps Doctors Connected Using F5's FirePass Remote Access Solution2008-04-03 F5 Networks
  Founded by physicians in 1995, IPC has grown to become the nation's leading private practice hospitalist company. To help their physicians stay connected with critical applications and information from any location, and to keep that information secure, IPC deployed F5's FirePass SSL VPN solution. F5's FirePass SSL VPN product provides secure access to corporate applications and data using a standard web browser. Delivering outstanding performance, scalability, ease-of-use, and end-point security, FirePass helps increase the productivity of those working from home or on the road while keeping corporate data secure.

Tags: Network Security, SSL - TLS		   
whitepaper Service Provider Speeds Access to Resources, Improves Security, and Reduces Costs2008-04-01 Microsoft Tips
  With thousands of employees spread across Germany and 70 other countries, TUV NORD wanted to simplify remote access to IT resources. In 2007, the company deployed Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of new Terminal Services capabilities. As a result, TUV NORD is reducing costs, speeding remote-access setup, and boosting system security and availability.

Tags: Remote Access - RA Servers, Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper NZAA Turns to Avaya to Improve Call Centre Efficiency and Regional Office Productivity2008-04-01 Avaya
  The New Zealand Automobile Association (NZAA) needed to implement a new communications platform after Avaya ended support for its existing ageing system. Newer Avaya technologies gave the NZAA an opportunity to manage its call centre workforce more efficiently by automating routine enquiries and enabling staff to be contacted and deployed more easily. The NZAA implemented a communications platform based on the Avaya S8700 Media Server, with Avaya G650, G700, G350 and G250 Media Gateways servicing endpoints across the environment. An Avaya Call Management System and Avaya IR 2.0 interactive voice response system hosting applications management were also deployed. Additionally, the NZAA uses the Avaya Voice Portal to deploy a new application enabling members to book roadside jobs from home.

Tags: Call Center - Contact, Gateways - Hubs		   
whitepaper BurrellesLuce's Implementation of Expand Networks' RDP Compression Solution Drops Bandwidth Utilization From 90% to 40%2008-04-01 Expand Networks
  For over a century, BurrellesLuce has helped communication professionals maximize their media relations results through a full range of planning, monitoring and measurement services, all delivered through an easy-to-use portal. The company needed to find a solution that would optimize RDP sessions over the WAN and control bandwidth costs which were one of the most expensive components to the production environment. The challenge was to get bandwidth costs down and improve network performance. Along testing Expand as part of a complimentary 30 day proof of concept trial, BurrellesLuce, reviewed an exhaustive list of other providers including Juniper Networks, Silver Peak, Citrix and FatPipe. In the end, only Expand was able to deliver significant optimization results for RDP.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues		   
whitepaper Expand Networks Optimizes WAN Performance and Prioritizes Applications at VT Group2008-04-01 Expand Networks
  VT Group plc with origins in the late 19th Century is an international government support services company with its roots in shipbuilding. After a series of acquisitions, VT Group had outgrown its existing network infrastructure and needed to immediately resolve WAN performance issues at branch offices where it had implemented a combination of Citrix, Oracle and web based applications. VT chose Expand Networks' Compass platform to address current application performance issues and provide the flexibility to accommodate the organization's future technology requirements. Deployment of the Expand Compass platform was chosen to tackle the bandwidth and compression issues that VT had which has led to improved performance and acceleration of all its applications.

Tags: Quality of Service, Bandwidth Issues		   
whitepaper Expand Optimizes MPLS Network and Provides Foundation for Server Based Computing Project at Hill McGlynn2008-04-01 Expand Networks
  Hill McGlynn is one of the UK's leading construction recruitment specialists supply permanent and freelance construction personnel throughout the UK and overseas. Operating in an MPLS environment for WAN connectivity between its headquarters and 14 remote locations in the UK, Hill McGlynn initiated a server based computing project running Microsoft Terminal Services. As the business grew, these applications started to suffer from significant performance problems caused by latency, congestion and a lack of QoS which needed to be addressed. Following a recommendation from Softcat UK plc, a leading supplier of IT solutions to the UK Enterprise sector, Expand Networks' Compass was chosen as the unique platform to improve the performance of Terminal Services and optimize the MPLS network.

Tags: Wide Area Networks (WAN), 		  
whitepaper Expand Networks Boost MS Terminal Services & Citrix Performance2008-04-01 Expand Networks
  Regal Ware, a leading cookware manufacturer, is one of the most widely respected names in the housewares industry. Regal Ware operates an extensive Wide Area Network (WAN). 90% of Regal Ware's remote access connectivity is supported through Citrix applications and Microsoft Terminal Services. With such a high dependence on server based computing applications, Regal Ware needed more WAN capacity to improve the performance of its networked applications and services while boosting remote connectivity. Regal Ware turned to Expand's bandwidth-boosting Accelerators to boost its Citrix and Microsoft Windows Terminal Services performance over the WAN in multiple remote locations.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues		   
whitepaper Federal University of Sao Paulo Upgrades and Saves With Extreme Networks Gigabit Ethernet Solution2008-04-01 Extreme Networks
  The Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) was running an obsolete Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network that was continuously on the brink of crashing. Designed to serve just 200 users and connect only 46 computers, the system could no longer handle the demand generated by its 7,000 users, including researchers, doctors and employees. The University needed an infrastructure overhaul to solve its bottleneck problem, and the solution soon became apparent: Gigabit Ethernet. UNIFESP focused on quality and price for performance, and chose an Extreme Networks solution, to be integrated by Olitel Telecom. Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 8810 switch integrated seamlessly with UNIFESP's Linux-based infrastructure and 12 switches were deployed in all.

Tags: Ethernet, Linux - Open Source		   


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