Dept of Interior implements ACCELERATORs from Expand Networks.

Expand Networks, a provider of bandwidth optimizing technology, has announced that the US Department of Interior has selected its ACCELERATORs to boost performance in its Wide Area Network (WAN).

The Department of the Interior (DOI) is the nation's principal conservation agency, with management responsibilities for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Land Management, Reclamation, Minerals Management Service, National Park Service, Office of Surface Mining, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S Geological Survey.

"With the ACCELERATORs, the DOI has been able to eliminate T1 links while gaining more WAN capacity, with a significantly better cost structure. The economic value proposition of the ACCELERATORs has allowed the DOI to slash WAN operating costs--as an example, between Denver and Anchorage, the DOI reduced annual spending by more than $150K," explained Howard Teicher, vice president, Federal & Strategic Sales at Expand Networks.

The Expand ACCELERATORs are important to DOI's communications infrastructure cost-saving efforts, and the department intends to continue deploying them throughout its Bureaus.

More than 430 ACCELERATORs are already deployed in numerous agencies throughout the United States government, including the US Joint Forces Command's Millennium Challenge 02 Exercise, Federal Aviation Administration, well as mission-critical networks like the DOD's Defense Information Systems Agency, US Veterans Administration, the US Army Personnel Command, the US Army Fifth Signal Command and the US Army Special Operations Command.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States' principal conservation agency. Our mission is to protect America's treasures for future generations, provide access to our nation's natural and cultural heritage, offer recreation opportunities, honor our trust responsibilities to American Indians and Alaska Natives and our responsibilities to island communities, conduct scientific research, provide wise stewardship of energy and mineral resources, foster sound use of land and water resources, and conserve and protect fish and wildlife. The work that we do affects the lives of millions of people; from the family taking a vacation in one of our national parks to the children studying in one of our Indian schools. Interior is a large, decentralized agency with over 67,000 employees and 206,000 volunteers located at approximately 2,400 operating locations across the United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, and freely associated states. We discharge our responsibilities on a $13 billion total annual budget. DOI raises more than $11 billion in revenues collected from energy, mineral, grazing, timber, recreation, land sales, etc.

Expand Networks pioneered the development of bandwidth boosting appliances--the ACCELERATORs--which increase network capacity by 100 -400+%. The ACCELERATORs eliminate the need for costly WAN link upgrades, enabling quicker deployments of new applications to remote offices. Networked applications such as CRM, Email, ERP, Thin Client and XML increase the strain on scarce WAN resources, often hindering productivity. By removing repeat data patterns found in any type of traffic, the ACCELERATORs provide important bandwidth savings. The end-result is the decrease in network congestion, which in turn speeds up data transfers. Expand Networks allows enterprises to support more networked users, applications and services with fewer resources delivering a typical ROI of 3 to 9 months.