CWT implements Expand Networks for data centre consolidation

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has implemented Expand Networks technology in the Asia-Pacific region to increase its network’s speed and application delivery and improve Quality of Service (QoS)...

Published: 05 Dec 2006

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has implemented Expand Networks technology in the Asia-Pacific region to increase its network’s speed and application delivery and improve Quality of Service (QoS)...

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has implemented Expand Networks technology in the Asia-Pacific region to increase its network’s speed and application delivery and improve Quality of Service (QoS) while consolidating distributed IT services to a single data centre.

To operate at maximum efficiency, the travel management company relies on key technologies and transaction processes to provide the highest levels of service and consistency.

“A key part of our Asia-Pacific strategy included the shift from locally managed, heterogeneous IT services to a centrally managed, standards-based Asia-Pacific Data Centre,” said Daniel Oertli, vice president IT and operations, CWT Asia Pacific.

“Our key challenge was to re-think the resilience and performance characteristics that our network would require to enable a data center-focused vision. Our ideal solution would optimize our four key protocols: Wide Area File Services (WAFS), HTTP, MS Exchange and Citrix. We learned from our own extensive research that, by way of their flagship Compass Platform technology, Expand Networks was the only organisation capable of providing a complete, future-proof solution in a single box,” said Oertli.

CWT completed this implementation in three stages over six months. CWT set up the Expand products in a hub-and-spoke network configuration, where Expand sits in the hub – the CWT Asia- Pacific data center – and at several CWT branches in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and India.

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