 Today's K-12, colleges and university campuses are increasing their reliance on the Internet. Their applications are quite varied, such as online student registration, and making information more easily accessible to improve communications between faculty, staff, parents and students. These online services require reliable Internet links that are able to handle traffic loads, avoid network outages and flexibly scale their services to meet the growing demand – all this with limited budgets. To address these challenges, network administrators are finding solutions that allow them to protect their online services with cost-effective bandwidth capacity, built-in WAN redundancy and the ability to incrementally add new bandwidth as demand increases.
Internet-based applications that K-12, colleges and university campuses deploy have become very sophisticated, and the Internet infrastructure that supports these applications has become more critical. Through the use of the Internet, processes are being streamlined, business operations are becoming more efficient, costs are being reduced, and all constituents involved are receiving immediate and more effective services. The bottom-line is that, Internet-based services are improving the way educational institutions work.
Deploying Internet-based applications presents unique technical and business challenges due to the underlying WAN infrastructure, as the WAN is for the most part, out of the network administrator’s control. The issues they deal with include flexible and affordable scalability, network reliability, and the increase in the number of complex applications that overload WAN links, causing network congestion and bottlenecks. Add to this the compounding effects of service provider outages, which place added pressures on an already over-burdened IT staff.
Ensuring the reliable and fast delivery of critical applications that need to be continuously available, while providing optimum performance is critical to the success of any educational institution. Users of these applications must have consistently fast access. Poor performance or inability to quickly access important data such as online student registration can be devastating.
Ecessa leads the industry in driving the price/performance value for link-based WAN optimization controllers to levels that educational institutions can afford. Ecessa’s products provide 100% uptime at one-third the cost of other competing products. With their versatile and powerful architecture, PowerLink™ and ShieldLink™ provide the highest value, while enabling our customers to optimize their Internet-based infrastructure to improve communications between faculty, staff, parents and students.
Until recently, even basic WAN link aggregation was cost prohibitive for small-to-medium sized educational institutions. This left a large void in the WAN optimization market for small-to-medium size institutions that were not able to find adequate, high-value products that met their needs, and that were priced within their financial means.
However, that has all changed with Ecessa’s introduction of PowerLink and ShieldLink, delivering powerful, stable, full-featured inbound and outbound WAN and ISP link aggregation, load balancing and failover, and VPN load balancing and failover within a single device. Ecessa’s products provide an additional layer of protection by shielding end-users from ISP outages and WAN link bottlenecks, enabling network administrators to automatically direct users away from failed or degraded WAN links to ensure uptime and performance requirements. At a starting price of only $1,295, including 90 days of free service and support from U.S.-based factory technicians, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and a three-year warranty, the Ecessa family of products brings affordability and advanced technology to the educational market for Internet reliability and network disaster recovery.
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