Apr 07, 2009 8:23 AM CDT
PowerLink WAN Link Controllers Deployed in London and San Francisco Offices Provide ISP Redundancy and Failover

PLYMOUTH, Minn.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ecessa, a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced that Bite Communications has deployed Ecessa’s PowerLink WAN link controllers to manage its growing WAN infrastructure demands. The PowerLink products provide Bite Communications with seamless failover between ISP connections and the ability to control bandwidth across applications and user traffic. This deployment underscores how marketing agencies are realizing the criticality of load balancing and failover for both incoming and outgoing WAN connections.

Recognizing the need to ensure reliability and improve performance in supporting its internal users, Bite Communications deployed a PowerLink 200 at its London office, and the same model at its San Francisco office. In doing so, both office locations were able to gain WAN reliability and faster performance, while taking full advantage of lower bandwidth costs.

“We evaluated Ecessa, FatPipe and XRoads Networks. We chose Ecessa’s PowerLink, not only because it met all the technology requirements that we had, but, price also came into the equation,” said Dan Chase, vice president of global IT at Bite Communications. “The key thing for me was their support. The fact that PowerLink becomes the authoritative DNS for our domain was a huge deal for us, and we really needed to know that there was a great support network there for us, especially while we learned how to use the product. I would have to say that Ecessa has the best support team I have ever worked with in 16 years in the industry.”

If the primary ISP has an outage, Bite Communications is safe in the knowledge that its users won’t even notice because PowerLink will automatically and seamlessly direct users to the other ISP connections. Chase adds, “This solution is a perfect fit for companies our size because bandwidth is so much cheaper these days. We are no longer tied to using just one service provider. With PowerLink we can easily manage two or more ISPs with automatic failover capabilities.”

Bite Communications is able to easily send and receive different traffic types over separate incoming and outgoing WAN connections. For example, SharePoint data is replicated over the WAN, and Ecessa can dedicate the SharePoint traffic to go over the secondary ISP link. This allows the primary WAN link to be available for HTTP and email traffic, enabling faster Internet speeds for all online social networking and Web 2.0 work.

“PowerLink provides a great deal of value to companies like Bite Communications,” said Ron Thomas, president and CEO of Ecessa. “In addition to providing WAN reliability through redundant WAN connections to protect against link failures, PowerLink can increase network performance by aggregating, and even bonding two or more WAN links, such as cable, DSL, wireless, satellite, T1, and other network links to increase bandwidth capacity.”

About Ecessa

Ecessa is a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while streamlining IT costs.

At one-third the cost of other competing products, Ecessa’s PowerLink and ShieldLink deliver industry leading price/performance value. Ecessa optimizes WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications.

Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN or WAN to multiple ISPs; enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic that ensures the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies.

Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to support user and business requirements. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.ecessa.com, or call us at 1-800-669-6242.

About Bite Communications

Bite, a subsidiary of the Next Fifteen Communications Group, is a 150-strong communications consultancy with offices in Beijing, London, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Stockholm. With a mission to deliver fearless and boundless communications campaigns to its range of B2B and B2C clients, Bite has built its business upon developing creative, results-orientated campaigns for market-leading blue chip and fast growing, emerging start-up brands. Its client list includes Apple, AMD, Facebook, Juniper Networks, Sun Microsystems and Sybase. For more information, visit the Bite Communications website at www.bitepr.com.

WAN link optimization is also known as WAN Failover, Link Aggregation, ISP Load Balancing, ISP Fail-over, Multi-homing Load Balancing, QoS WAN Optimization, WAN Load Balancing, Dual WAN Routers, VPN Load Balancing, MultiWAN Switching, DNS Load Balancing, Application Delivery Optimization, Internet Traffic Management, Network Bandwidth Management, Bandwidth Aggregation.