Plymouth, MN – September 29, 2009 – Ecessa, a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME), today announced that The Research Institute for Children at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans selected Ecessa’s PowerLink controllers to manage its multiple Internet connectivity demands. With the PowerLink devices, the research staff is able to use the Internet reliably for daily productivity without any Internet downtime.

The Research Institute for Children was looking for a solution that would enable them to have automated Internet redundancy. They had only one Internet connection after the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, and needed two Internet connections for greater reliability. The scientists and researchers from the Institute conduct work at various locations and they send multiple files throughout the day between these locations. For this research facility, reliability is crucial and if an Internet outage occurs, it can severely affect productivity.

The Institute required a solution that would enable them to automate the load balancing of traffic across multiple Internet connections, so that if one ISP had an outage or became bottlenecked, the staff would not be affected. The PowerLink was selected to expand bandwidth capacity while load balancing traffic between two Internet connections, utilizing two different Internet providers for additional redundancy.

“It has really paid off for us. When one network connection bounces, the other connection stays up,” states Dawn Kelly, Director of Research Information Services. “We literally at this time have no Internet downtime. The PowerLink continually “heartbeats” the Internet, and depending upon which Internet connection has the least amount of traffic, it will send traffic to that connection. It has allowed us to do all that we need, and at an affordable price.”

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 Research Institute for Children
The mission of The Research Institute for Children is to perform research that will improve the quality of children's health, to provide an opportunity for young scientists and physicians to train in an outstanding research environment, and educate children in the life sciences and scientific method. The Research Institute for Children is a collaboration between Children's Hospital of New Orleans and LSU Health Sciences Center. A formal academic affiliation with the University of New Orleans has also been established. The Institute was established in 1996, and moved into its new home in The Research and Education Building on the Children's Hospital Campus in December 2001. Research at the Institute focuses on three major areas: host-pathogen interactions, with an emphasis on fungal diseases, renal disease and diabetes mellitus. The Institute also houses research of the Pediatrics Department at LSU Health Sciences Center.