Schneider Electric, the French industrial power and automation group, is set to benefit from a significant technology deployment across its seven offices across the Gulf States that will see the firm’s regional operation both quadruple its communications network capacity and reduce communications costs by up to half.
Schneider’s wide area network (WAN) had struggled to cope with swelling traffic from a host of IT applications. Capacity constraints had slowed communications traffic and prevented some applications from running at all.
“Upgrading the WAN to eliminate performance problems and ensure capacity for future traffic growth was a time-consuming and disruptive option,” said Claudiu Iarca, Schneider Electric’s MIS manager for the Gulf. “Higher-capacity WAN links would also have meant permanently higher costs.”
Instead, Schneider has used a far cheaper alternative: Molecular Sequence Reduction™ (MSR) technology, developed by Californian company Peribit Networks from techniques originally developed to detect patterns in genomic sequences. MSR works by identifying, and removing, superfluous repeated patterns in WAN data traffic – instantly increasing a network’s effective capacity by up to 10 times.
“Repeated, non-informative data patterns typically constitute 70-90 per cent of all network traffic,” said John Rea of Peribit. “These repetitions waste precious network resources and severely degrade network efficiency and application performance.”
Schneider has now installed Peribit SR-50 and SR-20 sequence reducers at offices in the region and in phase two of the project will deploy additional SR-50 and SR-20 units to all of its locations in the Gulf States.
The sequence reducers have immediately increased Schneider’s WAN capacity by nearly four times. “Peribit has transformed the performance of our key services and enabled us company to run applications we were unable to run before,” says Iarca. The company’s existing WAN links now have over 50 per cent spare capacity. (menareport.com)
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