| WANS, VOIP & CONVERGENCE ALL-STARS Goldsmith Agio Helms | Inergy Automotive Systems | Paccess | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General |
WANs, VoIP & Convergence |
|||||
|
WAN QoS delivers the goods.
When your customers include the world's largest automakers, proponents of customized manufacturing and just-in-time delivery,
your enterprise applications and network must operate at peak performance and security. Such is the reason Inergy Automotive Systems, a maker of plastic
fuel-delivery systems and fluid-storage technologies, began consolidating enterprise servers and applications and plotting
its migration to a converged infrastructure.
"QoS is the cornerstone of our consolidation and convergence strategy," says Arun DeSouza, CISO and manager of global assurance
at Inergy in Troy, Mich.
From the first quarter of 2005 through the first quarter of 2006, Inergy rolled out Packeteer's QoS technologies (PacketShaper, Report Center and Policy Center) across its network. These guarantee mission-critical applications all the bandwidth they need, whenever they need it. Benefits of this $300,000 QoS project are numerous, including an average 300% bandwidth gain via compression, enhanced security and traffic control, DeSouza says.
"WAN optimization most significantly enhanced [IT's] credibility in the eyes of the business through reliable quality of service
and guaranteed user experience for critical applications."
- Arun desouza, CISO, inergy