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Macfarlane Group Selects Expand to Facilitate Migration to Centralized Computing and Thin Client Architecture

Overview The Macfarlane Group is a leading international packaging specialist. The Macfarlane Group needed more Wide Area Network (WAN) capacity in order to facilitate migration to a centralized computing and thin client infrastructure in multiple network locations in the UK, Europe, and USA. After extensive testing, Macfarlane Group decided to deploy Expand Networks' Accelerators in more than 21 critical network locations globally to boost its WAN capacity. Macfarlane Group had successfully overcome the dilemma of how businesses can maintain WAN performance over low connection speeds without increasing bandwidth and costs.

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Publisher	Expand Networks	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	4
Format	Case Studies
Topics	ROI - TCO, Wide Area Networks (WAN), Thin Clients

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