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End II End Unveils North American Optimization Lab for Development and Demonstration |
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CHARLOTTE, NC, July 13, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― End II End Communications (EIIE) has announced the official opening of its new Optimization Laboratory, for product demonstration and development, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Optimization Lab provides customers and partners with access to the company's Optimal family of products in a testing environment that combines enterprise applications - such as Citrix and Microsoft Exchange - with six types of broadband communications from different providers.
According to End II End CEO, John X. Dwyer, the facility was designed to enable EIIE to stay at the forefront of optimization and security technologies. With the Lab in place, EIIE's development team, partners and customers now have the ability to test updates and upgrades of End II End's Optimal software with a range of broadband WAN services as well as popular enterprise applications.
The Charlotte-based development team, led by Dr. Todd Anderson, tests End II End's Optimal family of software with a mix of satellite-delivered solutions for the enterprise customer, both within and outside an IPSec VPN. Developers at the Lab, located 10 minutes from the Charlotte's Douglas Airport, also test across different types of broadband configurations, including WiFi-to-satellite and satellite-to-DSL. This enables the company to understand how Optimal software functions across multiple networks and guides product updates.
End II End also invites customers and partners to use the Lab to test their own applications and to learn from EIIE's development team how to run enterprise applications like Citrix efficiently over satellite. With business continuity, security and VoIP hot topics in the IT world, many companies are taking advantage of the Lab to test these features over satellite. EIIE's failover functionality, available to test in the Lab, makes satellite-based networks a viable business continuity option. In addition, according to End II End, customers have been very impressed by the performance of their VoIP systems running through the EIIE VPN tunnel.
One of the stumbling blocks in the acceptance of satellite among enterprise IT managers has been an inability to guarantee industry standard security. The enterprise customer considers its WAN to be a strategic asset, built with commodity bandwidth and industry standard security, End II End said. The company said its software has removed that critical hurdle.
“Our view is that enterprise customers, no matter what sector, want to increase employee productivity by running their applications at all their sites,” said Dwyer. “Satellite is a perfect vehicle for realizing such gains, but only if you can secure the transmissions and deliver an acceptable remote user experience. If you cannot give them a VPN and good application performance, they will not use satellite. Our Lab is the place where customers test their applications, experience our technology and come to believe in the value of satellite networks.”
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