Expand Wins Grocon and Cuts Service Provider Costs by over $150,000 a Year

Expand accelerators achieve rapid return on investment

Expand Networks, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN), today announced that Grocon Pty Ltd, Australia’s leading privately owned development and construction group, has implemented Expand Networks’ WAN optimisation technology, saving more than $150,000 per year in service provider costs.

Grocon implemented Expand Accelerators to optimise the traffic flow between building project sites and HQ. By improving data speeds over the WAN, Grocon has been able to renegotiate its private MPLS IP WAN bandwidth allocation to reduce service provider costs from $24,000 to $11,000 per month. Expand Accelerators have made collaboration between sites a reality, improved productivity and secured Grocon’s knowledge management processes.

Philip Pearson, ICT manager for Grocon comments; “Consistently slow application response times – up to 15 minutes in some instances – meant many employees were saving files locally to avoid transferring them across the network. Multiple file versions stored locally meant our back-up procedures were not being properly followed. Now, with the Expand Accelerators in place, we are able to pre-cache relevant shared documents so that the files are quick to download and employees are not tempted to save files locally on their desktop.”

Steve O’Brien, Vice President of Expand Networks APAC explains; “Grocon’s workforce is scattered around project sites and therefore relies on effective collaboration technologies to link the teams together. It was no surprise to us to learn that they were struggling to cope with their 2Mb links back to headquarters when they were trying to transfer large CAD files with absolutely no prioritisation measures in place. Unlike other WAN optimisation solutions which offer network based QoS, Expand has superior application level QoS to ensure applications run unimpeded on the WAN. Not only has Grocon improved operations, but it has reduced its network capacity requirements to see a return on investment in just 14 months on service provider costs alone.”

Expand Networks’ Accelerators use low latency, lossless techniques that work on all applications to consistently deliver average bandwidth increases between 100 per cent and 400 percent. Expand’s automatic Layer 7 application discovery Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement also ensures that applications run unimpeded on the WAN. This is not just prioritisation, but also includes sophisticated algorithms to combat congestion, mark packets for downstream QoS handling and rate control shaping to make sure data flows get the bandwidth they need.
Contacts

Connect2Communications – US
Elizabeth Miller
847-223-2653
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Cohesive Communications – EMEA
David Rowlands
+44 (0) 1291 626200
expand {at} cohesive.uk(.)com
or
Kinetics – APAC
Brooke Radich
+61 (0) 2 9212 3848
expand {at} kinetics.com(.)au