CEO Insight
Expansion is the key word at APCON—not only from a business perspective but from an application perspective, as well. While APCON has extended its worldwide leadership in physical layer switching applications, we also are crossing a significant threshold in terms of expanding the number of connections that can be controlled with APCON IntellaPatch physical layer switches.
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Financial Institution Cuts Analyzer Costs by 77 Percent
Equipment Costs Drop from $885K to $200K
Enterprise organizations with highly critical computer networks face a common challenge: ensuring continuous data flow and application availability. Effective, efficient monitoring of the network infrastructure is critically important to achieving the 99.999% uptime and application performance required. To meet the challenge of nearly perfect uptime performance, organizations invest millions in network monitoring and analysis equipment. The initial investment in this equipment consumes a significant percentage of the IT budget. Additional expenses are incurred each year in the form of software licenses as well as ongoing hardware and software support contracts.
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Creating Large Physical Layer Switch Matrices
Many APCON customers initially purchase a single IntellaPatch Switch such as a 144 port model. While this purchase may satisfy the original customer requirements, over time the need for a larger switch matrix is apparent. Customers who need a larger switch matrix are usually connecting hundreds or thousands of devices. One example of this type of environment is a SAN interoperability test lab. These large test lab environments contain thousands of devices and need the ability to connect any device to any other device in seconds.
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Use Scripting To Automate Your Test Environment
Users of APCON IntellaPatch physical layer switches often want to automate their test-lab or equipment-sharing environment. Automation offers a major advantage, in part due to the improved efficiency in time and labor, but also due to the significant cost savings that result.
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