 Federal, state, and local government IT departments face many of the same challenges as their business counterparts. As in the private sector, government agencies are looking to increase their efficiency, while lowering costs. For the government, delivering quality services to citizens is no different than how the business sector sees the importance of providing excellent customer service.
The public expects their government agencies to provide services that are fast and reliable. This can include services such as traffic updates and building-permit information. Government IT personnel continually deal with the challenges of providing easy access, while protecting sensitive information. Government services and applications that are Internet-based are powerful and sophisticated, and the Internet infrastructure supporting them has become more vital with every passing year.
Deploying fast and reliable applications over the Internet presents many technical and business challenges due to the underlying WAN infrastructure. As opposed to an organization’s LAN, where network administrators have greater control, the WANs reliability and performance is for the most part, out of the network administrator’s direct control. The issues they are confronted with include affordable and flexible 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 WAN connectivity that needs to be continuously available, while providing optimum performance is critical to the success of any government agency. Users of these applications must have immediate access, as poor performance or inability to quickly access critical data or records can be disastrous.
Ecessa leads the industry in driving the price/performance value for link-based WAN optimization controllers to levels that small and medium sized government agencies can afford. Ecessa’s PowerLink™ and ShieldLink™ 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 government professionals to optimize their agencies which rely on Internet infrastructure to communicate between agencies, citizens and suppliers.
Until recently, even basic WAN failover, link aggregation was cost prohibitive for small-to-medium sized government agencies. This left a large void in the WAN optimization market for these agencies 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 the PowerLink and ShieldLink, delivering powerful, stable, full-featured inbound and outbound WAN and ISP link aggregation, intelligent 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 government agencies for greater Internet reliability and network disaster recovery.
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