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Austal Deal with DiversIT & Riverbed
Austal Selects DiversIT and Riverbed for WAN Optimization Across Town and Across the World.
Initially, Austal deployed Riverbed appliances as a trial evaluation between its Western Australian headquarters and an engineering facility located in Tasmania. Despite the short distance, the performance increase was impressive with respect to the large Computer Aided Design (CAD) and modelling files that are shared between locations. Large files that previously required 40 minutes to save or re-open can now open or save in less than a minute. The improved performance has had an immediate effect on productivity, enabling engineers to work on six or seven drawings per day, rather than only two or three.
DiversIT, an important provider of IT solutions in the Western Australia, was instrumental in the selection, installation and support of the Riverbed appliances. The entire installation took less than four hours to accomplish. The Riverbed appliances provide Austal with visibility into what traffic is crossing the WAN and the ability to then manage the traffic appropriately. Mission-critical traffic can be accelerated and malicious or unimportant traffic can be stopped or managed. After installing the appliances, the company realized that a considerable amount of WAN bandwidth was being consumed by remote back-up traffic. With the appliances, it was then able to limit the bandwidth devoted to back-up.
Austal were surprised at how great a difference WAN optimization makes even over relatively short distances, The Riverbed appliances provide visibility into the WAN with the ability to accelerate, manage or even stop certain traffic. The result is immediate increases in productivity, reduced bandwidth consumption and greater efficiency of applications and infrastructure.
Austal will be deploying RiverBed appliances golbally for speeding applications and file access over the long distance between Australia and the world. Most content and applications now run 70 to 80 times faster across the company's Internet gateway connection. Now Austal has protection from malware and control of Web applications and usage. The Riverbed appliances protect, control and accelerate all Internet access for the company.
