Providence Consulting Company Selects Ecessa to Manage Multiple Internet Connections

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Providence Consulting Company Selects Ecessa to Manage Multiple Internet Connections

08:29:55 - 28 July 2009

PowerLink deployed to provide automated redundancy and failover for reliable Internet connectivity across multi-office locations

Plymouth, MN – July 28, 2009 – Ecessa, a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME), today announced that Providence, an engineering and environmental consulting company, has selected Ecessa’s PowerLink WAN link controllers to provide automated load balancing and failover for its business-critical WAN connectivity. With PowerLink, the Providence office locations with its multiple WAN connections receive automatic redundancy, site-to-site channel bonding and also have failover to a disaster recovery site. This provides continuous Internet uptime and reliability to Providence users relying on uninterrupted access to web-based data, software programs and online compliance forms.

Providence selected two PowerLinks to deploy for site-to-site channel bonding in its Baton Rouge and Dallas offices. Both offices have business-class cable connections and T1 lines. Site-to-site channel bonding is a form of WAN link load balancing and enables Providence to increase the total combined bandwidth of its multiple network connections between the two locations. In addition, the PowerLink provides continuous health checks (up/down status) of all the network connections, and packet-based load balancing distributes traffic among the network connections.

“We had purchased a Cisco ASA 5510, with the promise of dual ISP support. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the automatic WAN link failover or intelligent link load balancing that we needed, so we continued our quest for a better solution,” states Wesley Corie, a network administrator for Providence. “PowerLink delivers the uptime we require, which has been a huge stress relief. Ecessa analyzed our previous configuration and delivered a low-impact, minimal downtime installation.”

Providence also utilizes the PowerLink as a disaster recovery solution. Should a catastrophe disrupt a primary site, the PowerLink provides failover and the redirection of Internet traffic to the Dallas office as the disaster recovery site. A case in point: Recently, the Dallas cable connection went down for a week. The network was slower than usual, but it was still up and the Providence users never stopped working. Additionally with the PowerLink, Providence saves with the ability to bundle multiple, less expensive ISP connections than having to pay for an expensive T3, resulting in huge savings for the company.

About Ecessa

Ecessa is a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while streamlining IT costs. At one-third the cost of other competing products, Ecessa’s PowerLink and ShieldLink deliver industry leading price/performance value. Ecessa optimizes WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications. Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN or WAN to multiple ISPs; enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic that ensures the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies. Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to support user and business requirements. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.ecessa.com, or call us at 1-800-669-6242.

About Providence

Providence Engineering and Environmental Group LLC, Providence is a multi-media engineering and environmental consulting company specializing in air quality, water quality, ecological, and waste management services. The name Providence, by definition, means “making provisions for the future”. Our name highlights the emphasis we place on the future, and the roads that will take us there. We aim to provide for our clients long into the future, and accordingly, we maintain their best interests as our focus. Providence specializes in services including ambient air monitoring, landfill design/permitting/engineering, industrial water/wastewater, and ecological services. Our company is a team of engineers and scientists that is guided by a vision of tomorrow. Our staff has a long history of providing cost effective and technically sound solutions to our clients with a personal touch. Our professionalism, technical abilities, and commitment to quality allow us to serve our clients with a high degree of expertise and experience in the various disciplines of engineering and environmental sciences. The company is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For more information, visit www.providenceeng.com, or call us at (225) 766-7400.

WAN link optimization is also known as WAN Failover, Link Aggregation, ISP Load Balancing, ISP Fail-over, Multi-homing Load Balancing, QoS WAN Optimization, WAN Load Balancing, Dual WAN Routers, VPN Load Balancing, MultiWAN Switching, DNS Load Balancing, Application Delivery Optimization, Internet Traffic Management, Network Bandwidth Management, Bandwidth Aggregation.