Customers get affordable and flexible solution for reliable Internet connectivity
Plymouth, MN – August 17, 2009 – Ecessa, a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced that Digital Planet Communications, a leader in delivering Telephony services to small-to-medium size enterprises, selected Ecessa’s family of WAN Link controllers to provide affordable and reliable Internet connectivity to its partners and customers. Digital Planet has the largest selection of telecom carriers in the country, enabling them to leverage multiple and diverse Internet connectivity options. Utilizing Ecessa’s WAN link controllers they can automate the management of diverse connections to ensure Internet connection failover, in the event that a service provider has an outage.

Ecessa’s PowerLink, ShieldLink and ClariLink family of WAN link controllers enable SMEs to reliably run their applications and distribute traffic among multiple, diverse Internet links, such as T1, DSL, cable, fiber, wireless, and others. Ecessa ensures business continuity by removing bottlenecks, and eliminating network downtime through automated Internet connection load balancing and failover. “Ecessa’s product capabilities bring our customers improved user access to business-critical applications, help in lowering their operational costs, and make it easier to provision, maintain and support their networks,” states Shawn Schmidt, President at Digital Planet.

Digital Planet’s customers have already started noticing the positive impacts on their technology performance. "Within a week of installation we experienced a 24 hour primary Internet service outage. The PowerLink that Digital Planet installed is transparent within our network, and moved all of our Internet traffic over to our secondary Internet service. If it were not for the PowerLink generating an email notification, I would not even had known that the outage had occurred,” stated Lon Morey, Information Technology Manager at CVRx Inc. “This product can help you sleep at night!”

Ecessa fits well within Digital Planet’s Total Care program that includes the integration of telecom equipment, paired with telecom carrier network services. For example, Digital Planet provides a wide variety of network connection choices to their customers. Now with Ecessa’s WAN link controllers, the automated load balancing and failover of multiple network connections creates a virtual WAN solution for business continuity and disaster recovery.

“Ecessa products are a unique tool for Digital Planet’s partners, who are now able to provide a flexible solution to their customers for cost-effectively adding incremental bandwidth with built-in redundancy” says Jason Breyer, Vice President of Sales at Ecessa.

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. 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 Digital Planet
In 1992, St. Paul, Minnesota became home to Digital Planet Communications, Inc. Since then the company has been working with small to medium sized businesses to develop Comprehensive Business Communications Solutions on a local and national level. Digital Planet Communications breadth of skills and resources enables its highly skilled team of professionals to deliver a “Total Care” solution for any organization’s communication needs. Unlike other companies in the industry, Digital Planet is able to provide multiple options for network services and leading equipment solutions. With technical expertise and un-matched quality of service, Digital Planet Communications has quickly become a leader in the rapidly changing unified communications industry. For more information on Digital Planet Communications, call 651-233-5800 or visit www.dpcinc.com.