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Dunmore Gets 10X Speed, Eliminates Outages with Ecessa

April 11, 2016: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - Failover, VOIP and Video Conferencing

Aerospace manufacturing company Dunmore needed to eliminate connectivity outages resulting from bad MPLS circuits. With ClariLink, they achieved zero outages and no dropped VoIP calls and increased bandwidth between 3X and 10X.

Hear it Here: SDWAN Podcast

April 7, 2016: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - SDN & SD-WAN

In the first podcast of his SD-WAN series this month, TMCnet blogger Peter Radizeski talks with Ken LaMere, Ecessa’s Director of Channel Sales, about SD-WAN and why agents and other channel partners should care about it.

Voice of Customer Informs Ecessa Firmware Releases

March 8, 2016: Mike Siegler, CEO - WAN Management

Ecessa welcomes voice of customer feedback

Ecessa announced the release of firmware revisions 10.5.4 and beta 10.6.4 for use on PowerLink™, ShieldLink™, ClariLink™ and WANworX™ wide area network controllers. VP of Development and Technical Support Mike Siegler describes how Voice of Customer feedback is used in each new firmware release.

Ecessa Addresses DROWN — Newer Versions of Firmware Not Vulnerable

March 3, 2016: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - IT Issues & Insights, WAN Management

Ecessa software revisions guard against drown vulnerabilities

Ecessa users rest easy; latest versions of Ecessa firmware NOT vulnerable to CVE-2016-0800 – DROWN – Cross-protocol attack on TLS using SSLv2.

Summit Partners Gets ROI from Ecessa SD-WAN Technology

February 11, 2016: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - 3-Minute Case Studies, Banking & Finance, SDN & SD-WAN

Global growth equity investment firm gains 98% improvement in packet loss, avoids network outages with Ecessa SD-WAN Technology.

Q&A: Does Ecessa do VPN Failover?

February 2, 2016: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - Failover, WAN Management

We were asked recently if all of our solutions enable VPN failover and traffic shaping. The answer is yes! All of our models have features that add this functionality to a customer’s existing VPNs. Some of our models even create the VPNs.

Q&A: Does WAN Virtualization Enhance Riverbed SteelHead products?

January 5, 2016: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - WAN Virtualization & Optimization

WAN Virtualization works with Riverbed SteelHead WAN Optimization

Yes, WAN Virtualization works quite well in conjunction with other WAN optimization technologies, including Riverbed SteelHead products.

What is Fail-to-Wire?

December 8, 2015: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - Failover, WAN Management

Fail-to-wire (a.k.a FTW, LAN bypass, network bypass, LAN failsafe) is a fault-tolerance feature of networking hardware that protects essential business communications in the event of a power outage and/or system failure. This article covers three generations of network bypass in use today.

How Ecessa Tests Its Load Balancers and SD-WAN Solutions

December 2, 2015: Tina Plant, Marketing Manager - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we use our own products and test our customers’ network setups – whether it’s a PowerLink load balancer or a WANworX SD-WAN solution – before deploying products on-site.

Inside SD-WAN: WAN Virtualization Traffic Routing Options

November 30, 2015: Rick Berens, System Architect - SDN & SD-WAN, WAN Virtualization & Optimization

New Ecessa technology report highlights a major component of SD-WAN (WAN Virtualization) and how it creates a more resilient network by leveraging the most cost-effective, bandwidth-rich WAN connections.