Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa Selects ACCELERATORs to Expand WAN Capacity.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2002 Expand ACCELERATORs Save Bandwidth Upgrade Costs for Global Automaker; Deliver 300% More WAN Bandwidth Expand Networks, a leader in bandwidth optimization technology, today announced that the Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa
Ford employees in two remote branch locations were experiencing congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. while trying to access productivity and back office applications such as Email, Main frame, file servers and the Internet. In order to address the resulting sluggish WAN performance, Ford evaluated two options -- to purchase more bandwidth at high recurring monthly costs or utilize Expand's ACCELERATORs to obtain the required bandwidth boost, at a one-time fixed investment. Since their deployment, the ACCELERATORs have already delivered more than 300% increased WAN capacity over the existing links, eliminating Ford's need to spend more resources on additional frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. services. "In today's fast-paced and challenging business climate, the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. must improve supply-chain efficiency and streamline back-office operations to keep profits strong," said Peter Christy, co-founder of NetsEdge Research Group. "But world-wide corporations like Ford Motor Company need information solutions that work everywhere they are, not just where the communications infrastructure is the best. The adoption of the ACCELERATORs by a large automaker like Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa is a validation of the importance and value of this kind of product for creating world-wide information systems." About Ford Motor Company The Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (US Department of Transportation) FMCSA Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa ) is the South African home of Ford, Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover and is one of Southern Africa's leading automotive companies. A technologically advanced engine plant is in Port Elizabeth which machines components for the assembly plant in Silverton and produces engines and catalytic converter parts for export. The engine plant commenced full production of the new Ford 1,6-litre RoCam engine in the year 2000 and has also been designated the sole supplier of a 1,3-litre RoCam engine to Ford plants around the world. FMCSA's vision of producing vehicles meeting world-class quality standards is reinforced by the Company's attainment of the SA Bureau of Standards' ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certification and the Ford Motor Company's Q1 Quality Award which recognises the company's extreme levels of excellence and its advanced systems, designed for continuous improvement in meeting customer needs and expectations. FMCSA has also been awarded ISO 14001 Certification at its assembly plant facilities in Pretoria, as well as at its Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth. During January 2002, the FMCSA was awarded the US Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence for the Company's HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome programme. About Expand Networks 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 (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , Email, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , Thin Client and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. 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 (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of 3 to 12 months. Clients include: Motorola, Texas Instruments, Hitachi Capital and the United States Department of Defense. Expand Networks is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey, and Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. To learn more, visit www.expand.com or call 888/892-1250 Expand Networks, ACCELERATOR 6800, ACCELERATOR 4800, ACCELERATOR 4000, ACCELERATOR 2800, ACCELERATOR 2750, and ACCELERATOR 1800 are trademarks of Expand Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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