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Engineering Firm Gains Business Continuity With WAN Optimization

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Overview ENGlobal Corporation (AMEX: ENG) - an engineering and professional services firm serving all segments of the petroleum, gas, chemical, power, and petrochemical markets - has grown substantially over the last five years through customer success and strategic acquisitions. The company's challenge was to: Improve business continuity through application and data center centralization; Maintain employee productivity and LAN-like application performance; Lower capital and operating costs of applications, bandwidth, and servers. ENGlobal Corporation deployed: Cisco 3845 ISRs, WAE 612 and 512 appliances, and WAAS software in the data center; Cisco 2821 ISRs, WAE 512 appliances and WAAS software in larger offices; Cisco 2821 ISRs, WAE 502 network modules and WAAS software in smaller offices; Verizon MPLS WAN circuits.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), MPLS

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