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.
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.
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.
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.
