ProPac

IT departments today face the problem of supporting increasingly complex business applications and making them available through increasingly diverse client devices and transport mechanisms. The following frustrations are often cited by senior IT managers;

 

• Customers who experience poor site performance and slowdown
• Adverse customer satisfaction through poor response time or application integrity
• Uncertainty rolling out new business applications
• Site security breeches affecting service
• A high volume of service desk calls relating to performance
• Restricted user access to applications
• Applications which can’t scale in performance
• High costs associated with supporting complex application architecture
• The need to increase availability of applications
• Applications which need to scale geographical boundaries to support BCP & DR requirements

Companies facing these issues often turn to application acceleration solutions to alleviate these business problems.

3net provide advice on the leading vendors such as Nortel, Bluecoat, F5 and others describing how the respective technology can address business needs.

Technologies

3net has developed design and implementation services across the following areas of application acceleration:

• Content Management
• Caching
• Server Load Balancing
• Layer 4-7 Switching
• Global Server Load Balancing
• Bandwidth Management
• Link Optimisation
• Content Direction
• Security
• Security Management
• SSL acceleration
• VPN
• SSLVPN

Solution

The overall aim of application acceleration solutions is to improve the end user experience and promote productivity. The challenge is to achieve this while maintaining focus on operational expenditure; a pressure that most organisations face daily. Gone are the days of technology preceding the business requirement. Application acceleration solutions enable organisations to gain maximum return from their network investment

3net understand that the ability to design, implement & support, what can ultimately be a global solution, is a challenge which organisations face on a daily basis. In-house support can be prohibitively expensive; even for the largest enterprises; and in this climate of increased pressure on operational expenditure, it can prove to be inefficient and often difficult to achieve effectively. With 3net's extensive experience, and with a skill base that is second to none, we are able to position an array of services which can support an "inception to completion" project methodology. A proven track record within large enterprise customers allows us to ultimately offset the risk of project failure and resolve reliability issues that can be present in such high profile, mission critical environments.

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Services

3net has partnered with Nortel Networks and their application switch portfolio and is the UK's only dedicated specialist support partner (SSP) in Application Networking, Secure Remote Access and Secure Networking. Complimentary application acceleration related services include;

• Strategy Analysis
• Proof of Concept
• Design
• Implementation
• Testing & Tuning
• Impact & Traffic Analysis
• Documentation
• Training
• Proactive Network Consultancy
• Hardware / Software Support
• Telephony Support
• Troubleshooting

Benefits

The key benefits of content management solutions are as follows:

• Empowers the organisation to manage their information effectively
• Improves performance by bringing content closerto the end user
• Maximises the application oftechnology investment
• Provides a fully scaleable environment
• Reduces the risk and improves resilience by distributing mission critical content and applications
• Secure solutions without performance overheads
• Maximises expensive bandwidth resource
• Assures fail-safe business continuity