Survey claims 54% of workers to use corporate networks to stream World Cup
matches to PCs
SLOUGH, UK–(Business Wire)–
Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office
consolidation and virtualization, today came to the aid of beleaguered IT
managers who face the challenge of keeping corporate networks productive during
the forthcoming football World Cup finals in South Africa. In a recent survey by
Internet Service Provider, Eclipse, 54% of working British staff are planning to
watch World Cup matches on their office computers resulting in a surge in
network traffic and bandwidth usage that could significantly impact the
performance and throughput of critical business application and services.
“Just like world class footballers, corporate networks need to be finely tuned
to ensure the highest level of performance and agility,” commented Adam Davison,
VP corporate sales and marketing at Expand. “Also, in order to perform at their
very peak footballers need two key attributes – vision and control. Likewise IT
managers need the same tools to gain insight into network activity and the
ability to manage network usage. With Expand IT managers get visibility and
control over network usage, assuring priority and quality of service is given to
business critical applications and services. In doing so they will be able to
support England`s world cup bid without scoring an IT own goal.”
Expand`s Accelerator range of wide area network optimisation solutions include a
fully integrated Layer 7 quality of service (QoS) engine. By inspecting data
flow on the network the QoS engine can identify the traffic linked to users
watching live streams of football and then give IT managers a visual “real time”
account on how much bandwidth is being consumed. It then allows them to control
this traffic ensuring business critical applications can continue to function.
Furthermore, with Expand`s QoS engine you have the ability to control these
streams both inbound and outbound from a single device at the core data center
or head office meaning a very small investment and rapid deployment.
“Like most, I`ll be hard at work at my PC during kick-off, but of course I may
sneak a peek! Difference is, I know my network has the control and visibility to
handle it; confident that my football streaming won`t impact business
applications performing in the way they should. While you can`t expect all
employees to be model employees, with a bit of optimization technology, at least
they won`t drive your IT managers completely insane with bandwidth starvation
this world cup!”
Cohesive Communications
Zara May/Jennifer Manning
+44 (0)1291 626 200
expand@cohesive.uk.com
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